You and a limited number of your fellow first-year students are invited to live in this unique place on campus, where the lines between what is learned inside the classroom and what is learned outside disappear. Students, staff and faculty share the common project of deciding how the members of the Residential College at Tierney Hall spend the coming year living and learning together and work collaboratively to make this project a success.

When considering where you will live in your first year at Fordham…

…imagine walking down the hall from your room to a dynamic seminar with a professor from Fordham’s internationally-recognized faculty.

…imagine collaborating with other students, staff and faculty to design social, service and educational activities and events for the Residential College.

…imagine venturing into the world’s greatest city with faculty and staff as your guides.

…imagine stepping from your air-conditioned room to meet friends, staff and faculty down the hall at the coffee bar or to talk, play games or surf via the hall’s wireless web on your laptop in the many “nooks” around the building.

…imagine seminars, study sessions, speakers and even movie showings using lounges equipped with the latest multimedia technology.

…imagine academic, extracurricular and spiritual advising doors away in the place where you live among friends.

…imagine guest speakers from Fordham’s faculty and the renowned intellectual centers of the City of New York.

…imagine debating the great intellectual and moral questions of the day with friends over a common meal prepared in the stocked community kitchen.

… imagine having religious services--both Roman Catholic and ecumenical--and spiritual guidance available in the hall throughout the year.

You have imagined the Residential College at Tierney Hall, a place limited only by the imagination of those who will live in its halls next year.

Working with you during your first year in this community will be a staff of five hand-picked Resident Assistants, a Chaplain-in-Residence and the Manresa Seminar Faculty, ten professors from Fordham College at Rose Hill.

Students choosing to live in the Residential College also choose to be Manresa Scholars, and are enrolled in a seminar taught by one of Fordham’s internationally-recognized teacher-scholars who also serve as the student’s academic advisor.  In these small classes, Manresa Scholars get to know their professor-advisors and fellow students, dig deeper into the subjects under study, explore questions about the value and meaning of liberal arts education in the Jesuit tradition and integrate in-class learning with extracurricular activities that take advantage of Fordham’s location in New York City.