As a residential college, Coe recognizes that creating the right living environment is essential to provide a superior educational opportunity. More than 70% of your four years at Coe will be spent outside the classroom, making it an important part of your overall college experience, and perhaps the most fun. At Coe, you'll interact with a variety of people while making friendships that will last a lifetime.

By learning about you, your personality, and your likes and dislikes, Coe works very carefully to match you with a roommate or roommates that will provide you with the best living environment possible. Through completion of the Roommate Preference Form, you can provide important information to help assure you have a great experience. Coe's residence halls vary in style, size and personality. Each hall has vending machines, laundry facilities, and one or more kitchens. In addition to main lobbies for studying, relaxing and activities, most halls also have lounges with televisions and comfortable chairs and couches. All have cable TV and Internet hook-ups, with wireless computer network access now available on much of the Coe campus.

You will have a Resident Assistant (RA) assigned to each floor, who will serve as a familiar face, a seasoned expert on life at Coe, and a person to help make your college transition run smoothly. You will also have the unique opportunity to participate in a number of activities with your floor mates, not just in the halls, but also across campus.

Easing the transition to college life

Within the residence halls, most first-year students live on a first-year floor or in a cluster of rooms placed in proximity to the floor's Resident Assistant. First-year student floors provide a home base for entering students, while at the same time integrating them into a larger hall community with upper-class students.

Erik Albinson Assistant Dean of Student Life/ Director of Residence Life

The college believes that the first-year student experience is vital to academic and social success. The programs, services and mentoring that take place in the first-year student clusters and floors provide students enhanced educational and community opportunities and facilitate the overall liberal arts experience.

"As a member of the Coe residential living experience, you are automatically an integral part of the community. Through Student Directed Communities, we encourage you to get involved in leadership opportunities, programming, and setting community standards. As a member of the community, we want this to be a place you call home."

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Voorhees Hall

Voorhees Hall, the oldest residential living hall, is home to 184 women on seven floors, three of which are reserved for Coe's national sororities (Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Sigma Alpha, and Alpha Omicron Pi).

With a recent major renovation, Voorhees has retained its stately traditional exterior, but is completely new on the inside. Many new advances have been added such as making five of the seven floors handicap accessible and air conditioning the entire building. Room configurations include singles, double and two-room quads, which are typically occupied by first-year students. The Voorhees grand lobby is a place for studying, socializing and a meeting place for many on-campus and community organizations.

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Greene Hall

Greene Hall is Coe's only all-male residence living hall. Built as the architectural mate to Voorhees Hall (all-female) these two buildings share the same quad. Greene Hall is home to 200 men on eight floors. Four of these floors are dedicated to Coe's national fraternities (Phi Kappa Tau, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha, Sigma Nu and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia). Room configurations include singles and doubles. Greene also offers a television lounge and game room for its residents. And, like Voorhees, Greene's grand lobby is a place for many Coe College events, workshops and activities.

Brienna Gideon Area Coordinator Voorhees & Greene Halls

"Voorhees and Greene Halls are both steeped in traditions, and I look forward to continuing all these traditions while helping the residents, BOD, and RAs start some new ones! It's exciting working in the only all-female and all-male buildings on campus especially when the RAs in both buildings work together to plan programs and activities so that both buildings can get together. It makes a lot of memories not only for myself and the RAs, but also for all the students of Voorhees and Greene."

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Armstrong-Douglas Halls

With half of the floors dedicated to first-year students, these two identical halls share a main lobby and entrance. These co-ed halls combined house 184 men and women on alternating floors. The rooms in these halls are primarily double occupancy, and all are air-conditioned to keep you cool during warm Iowa weather. In the main lobby there are a number of amenities for your recreational pleasure. There is a big screen television, two kitchens, a pool table, ping-pong table, piano, and comfortable lobby furniture. For your convenience, the office of Health Services is also located in Douglas Hall.

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Murray Hall

Towering above campus with one of the best views of the city, Murray Hall houses 170 male and female students on alternating floors. Air-conditioned rooms on each floor circle the central core. As a result, both single and double rooms vary in size and shape. In addition to two formal lounges on either side of the main entrance, a kitchen, study tables, and two informal lounges-including televisions and a pool table-are housed in the lower level. Laundry facilities are located just off each lounge. And don't worry about treading up all those stairs-Murray's eight floors are serviced by two elevators.

Murray Hall is unique in that it attracts a majority of art related and international students. With smaller floors Murray offers a greater sense of floor community. Over the years Murray has developed activities specific to Murray that not only involve individual floors, but the hall as a whole.

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Kohawk Village

Kohawk Village, a substance-free residence, is primarily for upperclassmen. No board plan is required, and the facility provides students with an alternative to living in a residence hall. Room configurations include singles and doubles, with a shared bathroom. A comfortable lounge area connects the male and female wings of this large, ranch-style house. Adjoining the lounge is a large kitchen and dining room, with laundry facilities on each wing.

Laura Schnack Area Coordinator Armstrong/Douglas & Murray Halls & Kohawk Village

"Exclusively housing first-year students, Armstrong Hall provides a great opportunity for students to connect with residents the same age outside of the classroom. Douglas Hall houses primarily sophomores and juniors (who provide) great informal mentoring amongst the residents of both buildings.

Murray Hall residents are constantly creating and building on traditions within the hall... One deeply rooted tradition that emphasizes this sense pride is the painting of a mural in the lounge on each floor.

Kohawk Village provides a substance-free, non-traditional living experience for students who desire to still play an active role in the Coe College campus. The Kohawk BOD works directly with Murray Hall BOD, creating a greater tie in to the campus community."

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Coe Apartments

Located on the expanded east campus, the new Coe apartments (Brandt, Morris, Schlarbaum and Spivey Houses) are reserved for juniors and seniors, who meet and maintain qualifications.

Room assignments for the apartments are made through a number-draw system based on upper-class seniority. These apartments can accommodate up to 32 students, and most suites include four single bedrooms, two bathrooms, and a shared kitchen and living space. Providing all the comforts of home, the Coe apartments come equipped with modular furniture such as a bed, desk, and armoire; refrigerator, microwave, oven/stove, and a dining room table with chairs. Students also have the option of eating meals in the dining hall or preparing their own meals. On top of all this, each apartment also has a computer lab located in the basement. Morris and Schlarbaum Houses have classrooms located on their lower levels for interactive learning.

Coe's new apartments are less than four years old, but some of the organizations and activities that other housing has developed are not yet a part of apartment living. BOD (Board of Directors) is a student organization that allows residents to become more involved and informed with the decisions and activities that their housing participates in.

The Coe apartments were recently built thanks to the generosity and vision of the following alumni:

• Aaron Thompson Area Coordinator Apartments

  Morris House — named after alumnus Merlin E. "Curly" Morris, '36
• Schlarbaum House — named after donors Gary '65, and Ruthanne '67 Schlarbaum
• Brandt House — named in honor of the parents of Joan Brandt Ringoen '50
• Spivey House — named in honor of the family of Bruce Spivey '56

"The on-campus Coe apartments offer of variety of options allowing students to experience non-traditional campus living, while still being a member of the Coe community. Primarily made up of upper class students, these living options include: two, three and four bedroom apartment style living. The experience of Coe apartment living offers experiences that are important to transitioning to life after Coe."

For more information or questions regarding student housing, please contact the Residence Life Office:

Coe College
Residence Life Office
1220 First Avenue NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402

Toll free: 1.800.332.8404
Locally: 319.399.8741