Residence life is an integral part of the Susquehanna experience. Approximately 80 percent of Susquehanna students live in University or fraternity/sorority housing. A broad range of living options are available including traditional residence halls: two halls dedicated to first-year students, an all-women's hall, a volunteer-focus hall, a scholars' house, an international house and a number of general upperclass residence halls. Other options include the Sassafras Complex featuring upperclass suites, apartments and townhouses; Liberty Alley, a small apartment complex (no board required); and several small University-owned houses located adjacent to the campus.

One of Susquehanna's most popular housing options is the Susquehanna University Project House System. Students request the privilege of living together on the basis of their common interest in an approved volunteer project of benefit to Susquehanna or the community. This volunteer effort received a Presidential citation for Private Sector Initiatives and Pennsylvania's Keystone Award of Merit and has been featured in The New York Times. It includes projects such as Arts Alive, Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America, Computer Consultants, Study Buddy, and Students Helping our Elderly (SHOE).

Residence halls are directly supervised by a staff of trained upperclass students. The director of residence life, an associate director, the coordinator of first-year programs and an area coordinator live on-campus and oversee residential programs and services. Seibert and Shobert halls and the Scholars' House have faculty in residence apartments for faculty and their families who serve as resource people to the residents and staff.

University residence hall rooms include beds, desks and chairs, dressers, cable television access, as well as ports to the University phone and Internet systems. Students must supply their own sheets, blankets, pillows, pillowcases and towels.

Room and Meal Plan. Susquehanna requires all students not commuting from their family homes, and who are not 23 years of age or older, or married and residing with spouse and/or children to live in University housing. Residents of Theta Chi and Phi Mu Delta fraternity houses and those students living in Liberty Alley apartments are exempt from University room and board. All other resident students eat in Evert Dining Hall.

Under certain conditions, requests for special permission to live off campus may be granted by the Office of Residence Life. An off-campus lottery takes place each spring. There are no facilities for married students.

Any student who destroys, defaces or removes University property is required to pay the cost of replacement or repair and will be subject to disciplinary action. The University reserves the right to inspect all rooms and to close all residences and the dining hall during vacation periods.