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JUNE 2012
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The Martha Rivers
Ingram Commons at Vanderbilt: Living and Learning Communities
All first-year undergraduates live in a residential
community known as The Ingram Commons. Separately and
together, its 10 houses create opportunities for students to develop their
potential to the fullest. The focus is on the education of the whole
person—the intellectual, academic, social, ethical and personal sides of
each individual. We do this by leveraging the diverse talents and skills of
more than 1,700 first-year students, residential faculty heads of house, undergraduate
resident advisers and professional staff. On The Ingram Commons, teaching
and learning involve the entire community—and help Vanderbilt produce the
kinds of citizens and leaders that our diverse, cosmopolitan
21st century demands.
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Who's Who on The Ingram
Commons
Dean
of The Ingram Commons and Associate Professor of History Frank Wcislo lives with his family in the
Dean's Residence. Their home is the site of frequent dinner conversations,
student-organized programs, musical performances, evenings with faculty and
alumni, receptions and other events.
Faculty Heads of
House (FHOH) are 10 faculty members who have been appointed
to live in the different houses on The Ingram Commons and serve as mentors
of the living-learning community that student residents create in their
house.
Associate directors
(ADs) and area coordinators (ACs) are residential education
staff responsible for coordinating community programming and recruitment of
student staff. The associate directors live in residence halls on campus,
are equipped with cell phones, and are on call 24/7. The area coordinators
supervise the resident advisers in each building. The three area
coordinators assigned to The Ingram Commons are available to:
- respond to emergencies in the residence halls,
- accompany sick and injured students to the
emergency room,
- advise residence hall governments,
- counsel individual students,
- promote and assist in the planning of residence
hall programming,
- investigate and resolve student disciplinary
matters.
Head
resident (HR) and resident advisers (RAs) are undergraduate
or graduate student paraprofessionals who are supervised by staff
professionals in Vanderbilt's Office of Housing and Residential Education.
They are first responders for issues of conduct, safety, health and
wellness. They also provide peer mentorship and help residents build
community on their floors.
The House Advisory
Council (HAC) is the representative council of first-year
students elected in each house through Vanderbilt Student Government. The
council, which comprises a president, vice president, secretary, floor
representatives and house service commissioner, meets regularly and advises
the faculty head of house about the expenditure of the house programming
budget.
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Upcoming Dates and
Deadlines
June
4–22
Registration period
June 15
Deadline for roommate requests
June 22
Deadline for Commodore Card photo to be uploaded
June 30
Deadline to submit Housing requests for special consideration
July 1
Deadline to submit Student Health forms
Important Links
The Road to Vanderbilt
The Ingram Commons
Common Place Class of 2016
Parents and Family Programs
Housing and Residential Education
Vanderbilt Dining
Commodore Card
Student Health Center
Student Accounts
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The Commons Center
The Commons Center is a central gathering
place containing a dining hall, the Common Grounds coffee shop, the College
of Arts and Science Pre-major Academic Advising Resources Center (CASPAR),
the Writing Studio, a Career Center satellite office, an exercise room, the
Office of the Dean of The Ingram Commons, and the Department of Political
Science.
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Support Programs for
Your Student
CommonVU is a weeklong orientation
that begins on Move-In Day and introduces first-year students to their
floors and houses, their academic programs, the values and disciplinary
procedures of Vanderbilt, upperclass undergraduates and their student
organizations, and Nashville.
Vanderbilt Visions, a required 10-week
program during the fall semester, aims to ease the transition from high
school to college. Each first-year student is assigned to a small group led
by a peer mentor team consisting of a faculty member and upperclass
student, known as faculty and student VUceptors. The groups, which meet in
the late afternoon or early evening, provide a safe setting for discourse
and help connect students across different houses and undergraduate
schools.
Activities include a discussion of The Commons Reading (see below),
attendance at the author's lecture and a viewing of the student-run
multimedia presentation True
Life, which addresses alcohol and substance abuse as well as
other mental health concerns. Other programs address goals, aspirations and
expectations; balancing academic and social pressures; academic integrity
and the Undergraduate Honor Council; and countering stereotypes.
Visions groups and scheduled times will appear on your student's Your
Enrollment Services (YES) schedule in mid-July. Faculty and student
VUceptors will be contacting students in their groups at the end of July.
The Commons Reading: Half the Sky
 Now in its third year, The Commons Reading tradition serves as a
shared experience for all first-year students, their residential faculty
and staff, and their faculty and student VUceptors. This year's selection,
Nicholas D. Kristof's and Sheryl WuDunn's Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for
Women Worldwide is a passionate call to arms against the
oppression of women around the globe. Through inspiring stories of
extraordinary women, Kristof and WuDunn argue that the most effective way
to fight global poverty is to unleash the potential of women.
Parents are encouraged to read the book as well and will have the
opportunity to join a seminar discussing the book during Family Weekend. The seminar,
co-facilitated by Associate Professor of Musicology Greg Barz and Dean
Frank Wcislo, is at noon on Friday, Oct. 12.
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about what you read here? Send us an email.
Parents & Family Programs
PMB 401627 | 2301 Vanderbilt Place | Nashville, TN
37240-1627
Parent Helpline: (877) 887-2736
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