Gift guide | Facilities | West Campus Facilities

Each house dining room is the heart of the residential community, a place where faculty, staff, and students interact; where activities such as International Week take place; where music and dance performances are held; and where students give invite-you-favorite-professor-to-dinner nights.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Each common room serves as the living room of its house and is a multi-use space suitable for a range of events, including book signings and author talks, movie nights, readings, relaxation workshops, and more. Students especially enjoy the fireplaces in the wintertime.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

This is a unifying, central outdoor space for impromptu activity, including volleybal, Frisbee, bocce ball, and other games. Activities on the green include "Grillin' and Chillin'," a picnic with house fellows; pet visitation programs through Cornell Companions; and campfires where students indulge in s'mores.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Students enjoy the courtyards of each West Campus house for community events like ice cream socials and fall barbeques; as informal meeting areas; or simply as places to soak up afternoon sunshine.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

House professor apartments accommodate live-in faculty members and their families. They also are the settings for small dinners with distinguished visitors and guests and house professor teas--both of which provide students with valuable experiences outside of classrooms.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

House lobbies serve as hubs of daily activity for residents and as house information centers, with staffed desks, mailboxes, and bulletin boards. More than mere building entrances, lobbies are gateways to daily experiences.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

House libraries provide West Campus residents with quiet spaces for reading and studying, offering increased opportunities for thought, creativity, and reflection. With internet access, comfortable seating, and books that are often selected by the students themselves, each house library contributes to community life and a feeling of home.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

An assistant dean helps lead each of the West Campus residences. Providing housing for the assistant deans and their families guarantees full-time leadership and direction in each house. The assistant dean also works closely with the house professor and dean to encourage community growth and mentor students.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Each 7-person student suite includes one double room, 5 single rooms, and a shared living room.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Each 6-person student suite includes 2 double rooms, 2 single rooms, and a shared living room.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Each 5-person student suite includes one double room, 3 single rooms, and a shared living room.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Integral to the community design of West Campus are visiting faculty suites, which accommodate a steady stream of distinguished guests and visitors, such as Bill Nye, Janet Reno, and John Cleese.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

In-house events and resources weave together living and learning within magnificent facilities to support the social, emotional, and intellectual development of students. The house professor's and dean's offices facilitate smoothly run house activities and programs and provide appropriate private meeting and administrative space.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

In-house events and resources weave together living and learning within magnificent facilities to support the social, emotional, and intellectual development of students. Offices for the assistant deans facilitate consistent, high-quality programming and offer appropriate private meeting and administrative spaces.

For more info, contact
Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Graduate resident fellow suites enable graduates to live alongside undergraduates—and both benefit from sharing, advising, and mentoring. Graduate residents often host late-night cookies and milk, or invite residents to kick back to watch popular TV shows.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Each residential house includes conference rooms to accommodate small group meetings and projects. Conference rooms provide students with appropriate places to meet to discuss projects, research, and classwork outside of their rooms and without having to venture outside of the house.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

This is a popular spot for pick-up basketball games, especially for members of the West Campus community and nearby fraternities. Bench seating around the amphitheater and grassy slope makes the court a good place for three-on-three basketball tournaments and small concerts.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

In-house facilities provide students with easy and affordable computing solutions with shared software, printers, and other hardware. Ready access helps ensure student effectiveness in the classroom and their competitiveness in the job market.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

These house offices offer private space where house fellows may meet with students to extend a conversation following a meal, offer advice on academic matters, or plan a new program. When not in use by house fellows, these spaces often become quiet study areas for students.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Serving as both classrooms and lecture halls, seminar rooms are in high demand as meeting spaces for in-house courses, student groups, small group dinners, and informal workshops and talks. They also accommodate freshman seminar courses, which directly reinforce the living-learning connection.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Part classroom, part lecture hall, each seminar room is in high demand as a meeting space for student groups and as weekend recreational space. These rooms also accommodate freshman seminar courses and quiet study.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

An outdoor volleyball court will provide West Campus house residents and neighboring students with another recreational option. Volleyball is a great way for students to unwind and have fun.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

House pantries are open 24 hours, 7 days a week. They are stocked with snacks and drinks for when the late-night munchies strike or whenever students need an energy boost.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

Music practice rooms are essential private spaces for the many talented Cornell musicians living on West Campus, providing easy in-house access. Used by performance groups, students in music courses, and recreational musicians, each room is nicely appointed with a full-length mirror and a piano.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

High energy and fresh ideas are hallmarks of Cornell students. Annual funds help make it possible for students to put ideas into action and give them the resources to succeed throughout their years at Cornell. Most recently, annual gifts funded a public service project in Nicaragua where students built a library during their spring break. They also helped complete the second-floor renovation in Willard Straight Hall, which included a new round-the-clock digital computer lab for student use. And, to ensure that students find help when they need it, annual funds were used to support an on-campus training course for student service professionals in solution-oriented therapy. Gifts of all sizes make a tremendous difference to Cornell students and are put to work right away on their behalf.

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu

The all-new Noyes Community and Recreation Center (NCRC), dedicated in 2009, is a gateway to West Campus and offers students a state-of-the-art center that upholds the high standards set by Robert Purcell Union and Appel Commons on North Campus. The center serves residents in the West Campus House System as well as students who live in the surrounding neighborhood, including the area's cooperative living houses, fraternities, and sororities. Features include a gymnasium, fitness center, multi-purpose room, bouldering wall, wireless Internet; and Jansen’s Market, a quick-stop grocery. A facility director develops student programming to meet the high demand for recreational, social, and fitness activities across West Campus. 

The name of the new center reaffirms the leadership of Frederick "Jansen" Noyes '10 and Agnes Blanke Noyes and the continuing generosity of the Noyes family.

Specific giving opportunities for the Noyes Community Recreation Center include the following:

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Laura Hunsinger
607-255-1696
lh62@cornell.edu