The Honors Community
Merrimack provides dedicated housing, community activities and specially chosen resident advisors for all residential students in the honors program.
Benefits of Honors Housing
Honors students live in academically focused residences where they live and study together. Incoming first-year students live in an honors living-learning community; upperclassmen have the opportunity to live in honors residential suites.
Benefits include:
- Living In community with other honors students.
- Engaging in transformative learning experiences by living and studying with other highly motivated students.
- Participating in experiential-learning opportunities, including special guest speakers, service opportunities and group outings.
All commuter students have access to the residence halls during normal college operation hours and have full access to honors activities occurring in the residence halls and other areas.
2021-22 Resident Advisors
Honors resident advisors are tasked with developing and fostering a welcoming and academically focused residence hall environment. The honors program employs three R.A.s in Ash Centre’s first-year living learning community and five R.A.s in the honors residential suites at North Residential Village.
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Liam OCearuil ’22Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community
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Evan Dodge ’23Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community
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Taylor Jax ’23Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community
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Skylar DiMartino ’24Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community
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Luke Groder ’22Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village
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Matt Macek ’22Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village
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Meghan Smith ’22Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village
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Gianna Sciarappa ’23Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village
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Isabella Ozga ’23Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village
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Inspired by St. Augustine
The Merrimack College honors program is inspired by St. Augustine’s belief that studying with friends is the best environment for learning, challenging oneself and for discovering one’s passions. In describing his early education, he fondly recalls:
“I found all kinds of joy when I was in the company of my friends — talking, reading engaging books together — going from the lightest joking to talking of the deepest things, and back again.” (Confessions 4: 8, 13)
Our hope is the honors housing reflects the values proposed by St. Augustine.