College Nine/John R. Lewis Dining Hall

Nestled in the redwoods near the academic campus core, this is our largest dining hall. You can use your residence hall meal plan at this dining hall. Find a menu and information about hours here.

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🏠 Housing & The Residential Colleges

One of the defining experiences for students at UC Santa Cruz is our residential college system. Year-after-year, our alumni identify their residential college experience and student group involvement as central to their core identities and connection to campus. The people you will live with in these communities, the shared experiences, your growth academically and personally, are all fostered by the close-knit, home-away-from-home structure our residential colleges provide.

These ten communities, each with their own academic themes, architecture, activities, location, and support resources, provide a neighborhood for your lived campus experience. By design, our residential colleges are not connected to any specific major. This provides a wonderful opportunity to interact, live, and learn alongside fellow banana slugs from different backgrounds, countries, and experiences.

🍴 Dining

There are five dining halls on our main campus, along with 12 cafe options at key locations. The good news is, regardless of where you find yourself during the day, you may choose to eat at any one of our dining halls. Not only do we have different rotating menus for each dining hall every month, offering produce sourced from our campus and local organic farms, we provide complete nutritional breakdowns and a simple system to easily identify dietary restrictions.

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