Second Year Honors Community

Are you a sophomore honors student who is engaged in the community and committed to connecting with and mentoring first-year students?

Below you will find additional information about eligibility requirements for the community, as well as the housing application and selection timeline. For more information about the Honors Program, visit the Honors website.

Learn more about why you should live in the Honors LLC:

Honors LLC video transcript

Learn more about the Honors LLC in Straz Tower

Straz Amenities

Straz houses the Rec Plex gym with courts, gym equipment, a yoga room.

A 25-yard lap pool.

Straz also has a dining hall!

Private bathrooms, air conditioning, 3 elevators, common rooms on every floor to hang out in, classrooms and study rooms, a piano room, and a social hangout space on the 2nd floor with a pool table!

And you don’t beat those views.

Hear from students: why do you like living in the Honors LLC?

(Ava, a first-year student): A few reasons I like living in the LLC is that our R.A.s have a lot of experience with the coursework and the load that we’re kind of taking on as freshmen, so they are a really good resource to reach out to when you need help. And that the community around it definitely cares a lot about their classes and their class work. And that same drive transfers to community nights and meeting people and altogether it’s a really good experience. 

(Rebecca, first-year student): I strongly recommend living at the Living Learning Communities because it has given me immense benefit. It has filled me with community that cares for school and also knows how to have fun. It is very important your first year because then you develop good study habits. I really, really recommend it, not only because there’s, like, a gym and a pool and your own dining hall, but also because th people you meet there and the connections you make are just unforgettable and so beneficial for you. So, I really liked it, and I know you would too. 

Questions about the Honors LLC? 
Amelia.Zurcher@marquette.edu

 

Eligibility

Only Honors students are eligible to live in the Honors LLC. If you intend to live with a roommate who is not in the honors program, you will need to go through the general housing selection process. Similarly, if you drop the honors program at any point in time, you will be required to move to a different community.

Straz has many great amenities to offer students in the Honors LLC:

Straz amenities video transcript

Get to know Straz Tower

Common rooms on every floor

Lots of classroom and study space

Computer lab and printer

Laundry room

Mailboxes and mailroom

A piano room and a 2nd floor social hangout space with a pool table.

Straz rooms have private bathrooms and air conditioning. There are doubles, singles, and quads.

Other Straz amenities:

Straz dining Hall

Straz Rec Plex Gym

And a pool!

Straz is…

(Student 1): Family 

(Student 2): Home

(Student 3): Home 

(Student 4): Community 

(Student 5): Community

Straz is ready for you!

I really liked it and I know you would too!

 

Housing Application and Selection Timeline

The housing selection process for the Honors LLC for rising sophomores is now closed. To express interest in living in the Honors LLC as a rising sophomore for the 2024-2025 school year (as space allows), please complete this form.

Mission of the Honors LLC

The Honors LLC seeks to build a community of rising scholars and community leaders that fosters intellectual dialogue, academic inquiry, reflection, and transformative learning in the Ignatian tradition.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Engage in intellectual dialogue with students studying academic disciplines different from one’s own.
  2. Connect with members of Marquette’s scholarly community
  3. Develop a habit of reflection on knowledge and experience that informs a desire to use one’s gifts and talents to meet the needs of our world
  4. Demonstrate a deepened understanding of what it means to live in community
  5. Develop mutually beneficial and compassionate relationships with individuals who have identities different from one's own