This community provides you with the opportunity for academic support, career exploration, and integrated social experiences.
If you are accepted into the Curriculum and Instruction Community you will be able to select your room on your web date depending on availability. Please visit the following address for more information on our room selection process: http://www.uhs.ilstu.edu/apply/room_selection.shtml.
- Lifestyle Location - Hewett 15
- Faculty Mentors - Kristina Pfister
Floor programs and activities are geared toward your academic and career interests, and include opportunities for you to interact with faculty outside the classroom.
How to live on the Curriculum & Instruction Community
Students who are Curriculum and Instruction majors or minors and wish to live in the community must complete the Curriculum and Instruction Application. All first year and returning students must complete this application. Acceptance into the community is based on individual responses to the questions on the application.
The community offers many opportunities for academic and social interaction.
- Interaction with faculty outside of the classroom
- High-quality programming to enhance your discovery of the field of Curriculum and Instruction
- In-hall academic advising before registration each semester
- Study sessions for Curriculum and Instruction and general classes
- Opportunities to interact with professionals and alumni who are currently pursuing a career in Curriculum and Instruction
- Field trips to support career exploration
- Personal and floor volunteer opportunities to share your increasing expertise in Curriculum and Instruction with the Bloomington-Normal community
- Opportunities to meet and learn from juniors and seniors who are currently in the Curriculum and Instruction department
- Opportunities to explore internship to enhance experiences with teaching and child development
Policy
- Residents must be early childhood, middle-level, or elementary education majors. It you change your major, you will be required to change communities at the end of the academic year.
- Residents must abide by the quiet lifestyle policy, which begins at 9pm. If residents violate the quiet hour policy more than three times, residents will be removed from the community.
- Residents are required to attend one community social a month and two Curriculum and Instruction educational programs a semester in order to remain on the floor for the following semester.
- Students must maintain a minimum 2.4 cumulative G.P.A. while living on the community.
For additional information regarding academic lifestyles at Illinois State University contact us.