The fifth and final house in the West Campus House System has been named for Flora Rose who was recruited to Cornell over 100 years ago as a lecturer in nutrition. Rose (1874-1959) worked with Martha Van Rensselaer to establish a department, and later a college of home economics that evolved into today's College of Human Ecology.
West Campus House System offers upperlevel students an actively engaged community of their own – one that fosters personal discovery and growth, and nurtures scholarship and creativity in an environment of collegiality, civility, and responsible stewardship. A product of years of planning by Cornell students, faculty, and staff, the West Campus House System emphasizes informal interaction with faculty members, self-governance, social and cultural programming, privacy, and independence. What student residents on west campus will find – and help to build – is a natural extension of the experience they shared as first-year students on north campus. It is also a part of Cornell’s vision to be the best research university for undergraduate education in this country.
The goal of the West Campus House System is to create an environment that closely links the residential life of the students to the academic mission of the university. The development of the West Campus House System with faculty leadership at its core has been the work of many faculty, students, and staff.
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