Our educational priority is to provide opportunities for our students to become leaders serving the local and global communities.
Housing and Residential Experience supports this priority through a Residential Curriculum, an intentional framework that provides students with meaningful learning opportunities beyond the classroom. Every interaction, program, and experience is designed to help residents build the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to succeed at FIU and beyond.
- Personal WellbeingA resident’s responsibility for and engagement in healthy decisions as they prepare for their futures.
- Community & BelongingA resident’s sense of connectedness within the residential and larger campus community.
- Global ResponsibilityA resident’s ability to reflect on the impact of their actions within the residential community and on a local & global scale to effect positive change.
By supporting our mission, Residential Experience believes that living on-campus complements the classroom experience. Provide spaces where students continue to learn inside and outside the classroom.
Our approach to help enhance not only our residential experience, but also the learning that takes place in our residence halls is to deploy multiple strategies and methods to engage students living on-campus.
Recognizing that students have different needs throughout their college journey, our curriculum is organized into two developmental models:
- ExploreFirst-year students
- ExcelReturning students
Each model provides learning experiences tailored to the unique transitions, challenges and opportunities our panthers may encounter. Within each model, students may also participate in sub-experiences, such as themed and living learning communities. To learn more about these communities, please click here: Themed Communities
How panthers build community
Students living on-campus will have multitude of ways to interact with staff and student staff. We have staff members that live and work in the building to help support you.