Residential Living Expectations
Belmont University is committed to developing a rich and rewarding experience for its students in residence. It seeks to develop a residential experience that not only provides safe and secure lodging for students, but also makes a significant contribution to their individual and corporate education. Over all, Belmont Residence Life invests in students’ success before and after graduation by providing multiple opportunities to:
• Create the life-long
relationships and memories that energize their collegiate
experience;
• Make
“real-life” choices about their involvement and
responsibility in a community of their peers;
• Corporately reflect
upon, practice and support one another’s academic
experience; and
• Develop leadership
skills and positively influence their peers and environment.
To this end, Belmont University’s Residence Life staff strives to create residential community that both relies upon and fosters:
Mutual Respect: In an increasingly diverse world, it is essential that students appreciate the value of diversity in a community. The rich residential community offers exposure to a wide variety of people, perspectives and personalities and develops residents’ regard for individual differences and their ability to participate effectively in the larger community.
Broad Interdependence: Increasingly, students’ success in the university and in the world beyond depends upon their ability to collaborate effectively with others. The corporate living experience quickly illuminates residents’ interdependence and nurtures their spirit of cooperation and interpersonal skills.
Personal Responsibility: Effective men and women take responsibility for the decisions and experiences that shape their lives. Residence Life prepares residents to make the challenging decisions of their collegiate and post-collegiate experience by providing authentic choices and realistic accountability during their residency.
Effective Learning: The desire and ability to learn in all contexts is essential to students’ immediate and future success. By actively supporting residents’ academic achievement and providing countless opportunities for personal and interpersonal growth, Belmont’s living-learning community broadens residents’ understanding of where learning occurs and how it is applied. Residents are responsible for conducting themselves in a manner consistent with the Community Expectations outlined in the Handbook for Residential Living and Housing Occupancy Agreement as well as with university policies described in The Bruin Guide. Every reasonable effort will be made to inform residents in advance of policy changes. However, the university reserves the right to revise or create regulations as necessary, without notice, to maximize the comfort, safety and effectiveness of the community.
