LLC Program FAQs

It is not. It’s a residence life initiative that connects a student’s housing assignment to unite students with similar interests or identities.

LLC activities, programs, and events are unique to each community. They are guided by student leaders who collaborate with RAs, faculty and staff sponsors to shape the experience.

• Aspiring Educators
• Exploring Blugolds
• Hmong
• Honors
• Leadership
• Multicultural Student Services
• Outdoor Adventure
• Rainbow Floor
• Science of Life 

Apply to join a Living Learning Community through your housing application, found in your Housing Portal. On the LLC page, indicate which of the communities you prefer. You have until May 1st of the year preceding the contract to indicate an interest in an LLC. 

LLC communities have extra benefits like early move-in, team building, and activities throughout the year. Students, faculty, and staff in the community provide a network of support.

LLC members are enrolled in at least one course together their first semester, and work on a team service-learning project in the second semester.

• Aspiring Educators: Bridgman (3rd floor)
• Exploring Blugolds: David Karlgaard Tower (2nd floor)
• Honors: Bridgman (2nd floor)
• Hmong: Governors Hall (3rd and 4th floor, East wing)
• Leadership: Oak Ridge Hall
• Multicultural Student Services: Sutherland Hall (2nd floor, Center and North wings)
• Outdoor Adventure: Horan Hall
• Rainbow Floors: Marilyn Karlgaard Tower (7th and 8th floors) and Oak Ridge (1st floor, North wing)
• Science of Life: David Karlgaard Tower (3rd floor)

Finding a roommate beforehand is not necessary, and most LLC students are grouped with roommates they did not know beforehand.

If you have a friend group you want to live with, make sure they each select the same LLC in the housing portal. Be sure that all people in your roommate group list their LLC preferences in the same order on your housing application. This will ensure that the assignment process goes smoothly.

There are guided student engagement events for each LLC. Examples include early move-in, floor meetings, local immersion trips, and group meals. Your experience will largely be shaped by how you decide to engage.

Each LLC has a designated faculty mentor to engage with students outside of class time. Faculty mentors strengthen the academic component of our LLCs. They also attend engagement activities such as local immersion experiences and LLC dinners.

Students are the heartbeat of the Living Learning Community Program. Within each community, students have the opportunity to craft a service-learning project to work on together. Students in these LLCs will have the opportunity to complete at least half of the required service-learning hours by the end of their first year.

If you don’t live in an LLC, but want to get involved, please email the faculty or staff sponsor listed.

Moving out of an LLC is no different from any other housing floor. If you decide before you move in, submit a request through your housing portal. If you decide after move-in, contact your building's Hall Director.