Honors Housing

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.

2020-21 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.

	Maggie DeParde ’21 Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community Hometown: Syracuse, NY Major: Criminal Justice & Social Justice School: School of Education and Social Policy Fun Fact: I’m a supervisor at a summer camp in Cape Cod.
	Luke Groder ’22 Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community Hometown: Salisbury, MA Major: Civil Engineering School: School of Science & Engineering Fun Fact: I love the beach!
	Khaled Ibrahim ’22 Ash Centre First-Year Living Learning Community Hometown: Windham, NH Major: Biology School: School of Science & Engineering Fun Fact:  I won a singing competition back when I was 12 years old
	Amanda Carey ’ 21 Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village Hometown:  Westford, MA Major: Business Administration with concentration in Accounting and Corporate Finance & Investments School:  Girard School of Business  Fun Fact: I have been a baton twirler since I was in kindergarten and I twirled fire batons my senior year of high school.  I also got to be an extra in a Disney Plus movie “playing” a baton twirler!
	Alicia Collins ’21 Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village Hometown: Hudson, MA Major: Communication & Media, Political Science  School: School of Liberal Arts Fun Fact: I am a member of the Merrimack College Figure Skating Team.
	Matt Macek ’21 Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village Hometown: Berkley, MA Major: English, Education  School: School of Education & Social Policy  Fun Fact: Basketball is my favorite sport.
	Julia Matter ’21 Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village Hometown: Sturbridge, MA Major: Communications School: School of Liberal Arts Fun Fact: I’m a Student Ambassador on campus!
	Daniel Roussel ’21 Honors Residential Suites at North Residential Village Hometown: Cranston, RI Major: English & Sociology School: School of Liberal Arts Fun Fact: I’m terrible at fun facts, but I’m a locally published writer!

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.