Officer Circle Living Learning Communities
The ten Houses that make up Officers Circle (OC) offer a unique living opportunity for all those that live there. In preparation for the Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games, the University completely refurbished 26 historic buildings in Fort Douglas, including the Officer’s Circle Houses. During the Games, the fort was converted into Olympic Village, becoming home to thousands of Olympic and Paralympic athletes and officials. Each house in the OC community has a distinctive community with an academic or themed focus. Students are able to engage a small community of students who have a similar academic or interest.
607 Emma Eccles Jones Fine Arts House
Students majoring in the College of Fine Arts can opt to live in the Fine Arts House. The community is a great opportunity for those with a love of visual and performing arts to live together. Residents are a mixture of art, dance, music and theatre majors. You’ll live with a select group of students and student mentors who share your interests. The Fine Arts house gives residents the opportunity to live together in a community designed to maximize their talent and creativity. Scholarships are awarded by the College of Fine Arts to both new and current students who want to live in the house. Please contact the College of Fine Arts for more information about the scholarship application process.
To learn more about the College of Fine Arts please visit their website at http://www.finearts.utah.edu/cfaindex.html
Fine Arts Faculty/Staff Contact Information
Brent Schneider
Associate Dean
College of Fine Arts
brent.schneider@utah.edu
Phone: (801) 587-9811
Fax: (801) 585-3066
Building 607 Floor Plans
608 S.J. Quinney Law House
The legal profession is a diverse and ever expanding field that makes a significant impact on individuals, businesses, and communities. This community provides a living and learning experience that serves both law students and honors law students who have demonstrated the motivation and desire to pursue a career in law and who want leadership opportunities, academic assistance and support to be successful. Preference for the Law House is given first to Law students then the pre-law honors students.
To learn more about the College of Law please visit their website at http://www.law.utah.edu/
Honors Pre-Law Faculty/Staff Contact Information
Undergraduate Students:
Mary Watkins
m.watkins@honors.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 581-7383
Building 608 Floor Plans
609 First Security Business House
Living in the First Security Business House provides a great balance between fun and learning. All students living in the house are in the School of Business, many MBA students. The house is seen as a resource of the David Eccles School of Business that frequently hosts international events and speakers. In addition to the opportunity to reside with students sharing a common interest and increase your understanding of business in other countries, your neighbors will be in or have completed common MBA courses. Often academic help is literally the next door down the hall. All students living in the house are awarded a scholarship. Scholarship recipients can use this money toward tuition or living fees.
To learn more about the School of Business please visit their website at http://www.business.utah.edu/
School of Business Faculty/Staff Contact Information
Victoria Gonzalez-Cabal
Victoria.cabal@business.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 585-1751
Building 609 Floor Plans
611 Kennecott House
The Kennecott House brings together students in the College of Engineering & the College of Mines & Earth Sciences in a dynamic living environment. Residents that live in the house will be provided opportunities to create connections between what you are learning in the classroom and experiences outside of the classroom that will expose you to a variety of issues that impact engineering and earth science. The relationship with the two colleges and the residents creates the classic University atmosphere where minds meet and benefit from the experiences and education of fellow learners. There are fun and exciting social events as well as academic-enhancing events, and sometimes, meetings or informal talks which inspire and motivate the students, and help them to better manage and plan their academic and future careers. Preference is given to Kennecott Scholarship recipients.
To learn more about the College of Engineering please visit their website at http://www.coe.utah.edu/
To learn more about the College of Mines & Earth Sciences please visit their website at http://www.mines.utah.edu/
College of Engineering Faculty/Staff Contact Information
College of Engineering
Dean's Office
Phone: (801) 581-5415
College of Mines & Earth Sciences Faculty/Staff Contact Information
College of Engineering
Dean's Office
Phone: (801) 581-8767
Building 611 Floor Plans
612 O. C. Tanner Humanities House
Each year the College of Humanities interviews and selects 11 undergraduate Humanities students to live in the O.C. Tanner Humanities House, in historic Fort Douglas. This is an opportunity for undergraduate students from throughout the College of Humanities to live together, learn from each other, and get to know themselves a little better than before. To qualify to live in the Tanner Humanities House, you must be majoring in one of the many programs in the Humanities. If you are selected, you will receive a $1000 scholarship to offset your housing costs. Students also have a number of opportunities to get involved in the College of Humanities. They attend events together, go to plays and movies, and have discussions related to issues that concern those of us who study Humanities. Many of us speak multiple languages so living in the Tanner Humanities House can be a supportive environment to expand on your language and communication skills. The house is a great environment because it lets you get to know other academically strong students who can become lifelong friends.
To learn more about the College of Humanities please visit their website at http://www.hum.utah.edu
College of Humanities Faculty/Staff Contact Information
Liz Leckie
Assistant Dean, College of Humanities
liz.leckie@utah.edu
Phone: (801) 585-9733
Building 612 Floor Plans
613 Crocker Science House
The College of Science recognizes students of academic excellence in science, mathematics and science-related majors, and gives them the title, “Crocker Science House Scholar.” Along with the title comes an opportunity to live in the Gary and Ann Crocker Science House. Here, a community arises wherein exist many opportunities for discussions which integrate the different sciences. At the Crocker Science House, the scholars are unified by their interest in science and math but are diversified in their fields of study, which creates a unique atmosphere for learning and growth.
To learn more about the College of Science please visit their website at http://www.science.utah.edu
College of Science Faculty/Staff Contact Information
Lisa Batchelder
Administrative Program Coordinator-College of Science
batchelder@science.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 581-6958
Building 613 Floor Plans
614 Bennion Service House
Each year eleven undergraduate and/or graduate students who are passionate about service, leadership, helping others, remaining civilly engaged in the community and personal and professional development. Residents gain unique opportunities to examine their own civic engagement in a living and learning community and both engage in and promote various service experiences throughout the year. Residents of the house serve as catalysts for the Bennion Center’s mission of fostering life-long service and civic responsibility by engaging the University with the greater community in action, change and learning. $1000 Scholarships are available for all residents who reside in the house for the entire academic year.
To learn more about the Bennion Center please visit their website at http://www.sa.utah.edu/bennion
Bennion Center Faculty/Staff Contact Information
JaNae Lilly
Service-Learning Scholar Coordinator
Lowell Bennion Community Service Center
Phone: (801) 585-3297
Building 614 Floor Plans
615 Alliance House
The Alliance House is aimed at creating a welcoming environment to students of different backgrounds. It is a safe place where the things that make us unique are shared and explored. As an Alliance, we stand strong in the face of prejudice, injustice and inequality. We strive to bring awareness to our Residence Halls of different issues that are important to all of us as diverse human beings. Residents who live in the Alliance House will promote the educational, cultural, and social empowerment of the members within the house and throughout the community. Residents will also actively engage in topics and issues surrounding Social Justice and Change.
To learn more about the Alliance House &other Social Justice Initiatives within Housing & Residential Education please visit the HRE Community Diversity website at http://www.housing.utah.edu/diversity.html
Alliance House Faculty/Staff Contact Information
Aramis Watson
Assistant Director for Student and Academic Initiatives
Housing & Residential Education
AWatson@housing.utah.edu
Phone: (801) 587-0549
