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Cabrini University has nine living options for our students—traditional dorms, suites, apartments, and even historic homes! Did you know we have a Living and Learning Community program where you can live with students who share common interests as you? Go ahead—explore your options!

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🛏️ 🏠 Residence Life

More than just a place to sleep or hang out, Cabrini’s residence halls are where our students live for most of the year, spend most of their time outside of class, and make lifelong memories.

Residence Life is dedicated to promoting a secure and welcoming living and learning community that provides an enjoyable experience, valuing individuals as engaged and socially responsible members of their community.

Campus safety is also a priority at Cabrini. Our Public Safety officers are available 24 hours, 7 days a week for anything you may need.

Balance Learning Community

Want to gain skills you can apply in any area of life—keeping your cool, maintaining your center, balancing your school life and social life, staying focused, ready, alert—and fully present in the moment? The Balance Learning Community invites you to join us in practicing concrete strategies to train your awareness and discover how to live a purpose-driven life. By joining this LC you get to try out hands-on approaches to help you “stay centered,” “stay calm,” “maintain your balance,” and become clearer on where to focus your attention. You can apply these references immediately—in your everyday life—and then translate them to professional contexts, too.

Cabrini Commuters

A Living and Learning Community (LLC) for commuter students sounds impossible, but Cabrini Cruisers is designed specifically for commuting first-year students to explore their talents and develop leadership skills.

As a member of this community, you will have the opportunity to develop a real sense of community by taking classes, socializing, and enjoying off-campus learning opportunities with other commuter students. As members of this LLC, students will attend adventurous and purposeful retreats, such as a trip to New York City to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Little Italy.

Common Grounds Learning Community

How does studying what we eat and how we eat to help us learn about our own and other’s faith traditions? Would you like to understand more about your own and other faiths by learning about how our lives are shaped by our beliefs?

In this LC, you will explore a variety Philadelphia communities to experience traditions of many of the world’s religions Learn about the ways different faith traditions use food to express their beliefs
Develop interfaith leadership skills that are in demand in many fields, including business, education, government and social services.

This Interfaith Learning Community gathers first-year students to meet with people of different faiths, cultures and backgrounds to advance the common good—to discover “common grounds” on which to build community.

Communication: Telling Stories That Matter Learning Community

The “Communication: Telling Stories That Matter” Learning Community offers you the opportunity to study some specific kinds of stories. These stories are communicated through the electronic and print media of today’s world and studied through their historic evolution.

These stories evolve from different kinds of professional communications from journalistic styles to those of business writing to those best supported by the creation of video and audio and photographic multimedia stories that define who we are and what we think the world should be. And, most importantly, by their nature, these stories reflect and communicate values.

Designed for both Communication majors and students interested in other majors, the Communication: Telling Stories That Matter Learning Community offers many benefits.

The Educators Learning Community

The two Educators Learning Communities are for incoming first-year Education majors interested in taking a reflective journey to explore who they want to be as an educator and discern what it means to be an engaged citizen of the world in local and global communities.

Both Educators Learning Communities invite students to develop self-awareness and deepen their understanding of diverse communities through focused class and extra-curricular experiences.

The courses that make up each Educators community support incoming students’ development of essential skills and growth mindset for success in the classroom and as life-long learners.

IMPACT Living and Learning Community

Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.”

The Leadership LLC will prepare students to find their voice to become pro-social leaders by acknowledging their capacity for leadership.Understanding their capacity for leadership will equip students to understand the importance of community and to bring about positive, sustainable change that may mold the experience for those students who follow.

Students in the Leadership LLC will travel to downtown Philadelphia and connect with leaders in the area of professional sports, performing arts, music, and culture. In addition, students will spend time in Philadelphia and Norristown interacting with residents to learn how to display courage in situations that require stepping out of your comfort zone and thinking critically about ethical dilemmas.

The Men of Color Leadership Academy

The Men of Color Leadership Academy at Cabrini University will offer a safe and brave community for Men of Color who will create their own definition of success, develop life skills, articulate their leadership philosophy, and foster a culture of academic achievement.

This cohort will have interactions with professional men of color in both academia as well as industry who will help with professional networking, opportunities for internships, research and employment.

Further, through a culturally competent lens, the Leadership Academy will touch on topics and issues within society that may be of particular interest to cohort participants. The introduction of this LC is to help retain and graduate men of color. Additionally, this community is designed to ensure these students truly understand their belonging to the Cabrini community.

Voices of Justice LLC

The Voices of Justice Living and Learning Community invites you to take an active stance in your own learning, your own engagement in American culture, and in the politics of everyday life.

Our first-year immersion experience takes a lively, hands‑on approach to engaged learning by:

-combining history, political science, religious studies, critical thinking, and research addressing local and global problems

-meeting and interacting with scholars, activists, community organizers, and experts from local regional advocacy groups

-modeling effective oral and written communication skills that

-encourage individuals with diverse opinions to engage in democratic, meaningful, and transformative dialogue

-seeking out multiple answers to the thought-provoking questions, such as:
-What is American Studies?
-What is public policy?
-What is "responsible citizenship?

-promoting human rights and dignity through community-based -collaboration

Writers, Ink. Learning Community

Writers, Ink. is a learning community designed to help first-year students explore questions and develop skills that will prepare them for college and beyond.

Members of the Writers, Ink. learning community will:
- Learn what it means to write at the “college-level” and discover skills and strategies that will help them be a successful writer in any class
- Cultivate their ability to confidently give effective speeches and presentations
- Challenge themselves to think critically about their roles in the world
- Discover how they can take charge of their own academic success

In addition to a series of linked courses that will prepare them for success in any major, students will participate in a leadership retreat, trips to New York City and Philadelphia, and other co-curricular programming designed to enhance the learning experience.

🫂 Living and Learning Communities

The foundation of Cabrini University's First-Year Experience is its Learning Community Program. Cabrini offers two types of learning community experiences to incoming first-year students, each of which is complementary to a student's academic major:

1) Learning Communities, or LCs, available to both residents and commuters, are cohorts of students co-enrolled in two or more courses, taught by a team of 2-3 faculty members, each semester of their first-year. All learning community coursework is directly connected to an academic theme that is central to the learning community.

2) Living and Learning Communities, or LLCs, are cohorts of students that live together on the same residence hall floor while simultaneously co-enrolling in two or more courses, taught by a team of 2-3 faculty members, each semester of their first-year. Just like the university's learning communities, all LLC coursework ties directly to an academic theme that is central to the learning community.

Both LCs and LLCs provide students with an opportunity to engage in community in and outside of the classroom and to extend learning beyond the classroom into diverse learning environments that may include Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC, Lancaster, or Baltimore (to name a few). It's through these in and out-of-classroom experiences that students develop strong relationships with their peers and professors.

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