Housing Process

All housing processes consider the following guiding principles: communication, equity, class year and representation, and special needs. Returning students participate in a housing lottery. 

First-year students are assigned roommates based on information they supply on the housing information sheet.

Students are assigned housing for the academic year. If a student would like to change rooms, there are three ways to do so: Singles Lottery, Room Swapping and Room Change Request.

If for some reason these solutions are not possible or do not meet with the needs of the student, the student should first try to have her Hall Committee work out a solution. Usually these situations can be resolved by having a Hall Committee mediate a conversation between roommate pairs or triples. If this does not resolve the situation, the student should make an appointment to talk with the associate director of Residential Life to talk about moving to an unoccupied space on campus.

Language Fellow Program

Ham Hall houses a language fellow on each floor. Language fellows facilitate language tables in Ham throughout the academic year. These include Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish conversations at dinner tables each week. Ham Hall also hosts several international dinners each semester.