A Message from the Forest Area Director

Our communities are small, by physical design – Forest is in many ways like a traditional residence hall split into five smaller, more closely knit communities.

This allows us not only to enjoy the benefits of both large and small settings, but also to adjust portions of the Forest environment to suit student’s needs – by way of example, our distributed housing model enables us to offer both standard (Alder; “Manzi”; “Pondo”; half of Upper Spruce) and single-sex housing options (Juniper and half of Lower Spruce are female; half of Upper Spruce is male). Being split into five smaller buildings, without any themed housing, also lets us offer a range of different community flavors, where students with many different interests – athletics, gaming, politics, activism, pop culture, and art, to name but a few – forge connections between each other, building an exciting, eclectic environment.