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Residence Life

Honors Student Handbook

Traditional students are required by UNCW to live on campus for at least two years. The Honors housing cohort is only offered for first-year students. After that, Honors students may live anywhere on campus, with any other students they choose.

First Year

All first-year honors students live together in the Honors Commons at Cornerstone, with some overflow in Keystone House for large cohorts. Living together is a key part of building community, and the friends you make in the honors living-learning community as a freshman may very well stick with you through your senior year and beyond.

Cornerstone Hall is part of a dynamic residence area known as Tri-House, bordered by Innovation House and Keystone House.

  • Cornerstone, like all UNCW residence halls, comes equipped with many amenities: study rooms and lounges on each floor, kitchens, laundry rooms, Wi-Fi, etc.
  • Rooms are double-occupancy (sometimes triple-occupancy in the cases of very large rooms), organized into “pods” that share a communal bathroom.
  • Honors residence assistants (RAs) reside with students, conducting programs to build community and helping first-years adjust to university life.

Honors students will also live and socialize with students outside of the College, as the Tri-House area is home to other living-learning communities and non-honors students.

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