Residential Life
Residential Tradition
From our earliest days, residential life has been a defining characteristic of a Notre Dame education. The first campus buildings combined classrooms with living quarters for students, faculty, and staff. Today, the 29 single-sex undergraduate residence halls serve as the center of student life at Notre Dame. Social events, inter-hall sports, community service projects, spiritual retreats, and time-honored traditions unique to each residence hall define Notre Dame's culture and have created what truly is the Notre Dame family.
Commitment to Service
One hundred sixty-nine years after its founding, our residential tradition remains an abiding feature of the Notre Dame experience. Community, faith, friendship, service, intellectual engagement—these hallmarks of life at Notre Dame are still nurtured within the residence halls, just as they were in Father Sorin’s time. What has changed significantly is the wealth of services available to assist and to support students with an array of interests, activities, needs, and concerns. 
Twelve student-service departments comprise the Division of Student Affairs; from Campus Ministry to the University Counseling Center, Student Affairs offers an array of services that help to make a Notre Dame education among the very best in the nation.
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