Ringling College of Art Design Whitaker Bayou Village Housing

Student Life

Discover yourself—and your community.

You'll discover a identify where you vest—inside a customs of creators, storytellers, inventors, second guessers, critical thinkers, and trouble solvers.

The Ringling Effect

A Campus for Creatives

To assistance our students become hereafter creative visionaries, we brand sure they have the all-time technology that mirrors the professional person industries.

Who says libraries have to exist quiet? Our library of the futurity, the Alfred R. Goldstein Library, allows students the space to spark artistic collaboration and conversation.

Designed for the 21st-century pupil, our Residence Halls cater to the ways our students similar to live, create, communicate, and acquire.

Living on Campus

Housing Overview

With new residence halls, multiple apartment complexes, and over 30 near campus houses, Ringling College offers students a wide assortment of options for housing. And since over 70% of students cull to alive on campus, we strive to make our campus housing user-friendly, safe, and comfortable. Our amenities include furnished living quarters, three repast programme options, on-call staff, proximity to campus services, classrooms, and studios, all utilities, and 24-hour security. For additional safety, admission to each floor of our residence halls is express to its inhabitants only.

But we go beyond the typical college residence halls. Our housing is designed specifically for creatives, offering enough of collaboration spaces, large-scale project workrooms, and access to our many student resource.

Get-go Year Housing

First-year students reside in Goldstein and Greensboro Halls, centrally located on campus for convenience and proximity to our facilities.

Goldstein Hall

Goldstein is a country-of-the-fine art facility built for collaboration. The ground flooring offers a educatee lounge area called The Blue Room, the mailroom, Residence Life offices, and a big multipurpose space for student events. Goldstein rooms are double suites connected past a bath to another suite. They typically measure 11x16 ft, and each floor is equipped with project rooms for creating large-scale projects.

Greensboro Hall

Greensboro Hall opened for new, incoming students in the Fall 2020 semester. Rooms in Greensboro Hall are suites with two double rooms (ii students in each room) sharing a common room. The common room contains the bath and a refrigerator and microwave to share. Greensboro Hall also has four person suites with private bedrooms on each floor. Just like the suite doubles, the 4 students in single rooms share a mutual space, bathroom, refrigerator, and microwave. In addition to lounges on each floor, this building is equipped with a customs kitchen.

Second Twelvemonth Housing

Ulla Searing Student Center

Students in Ulla Searing have in-house access to an array of student resources, including the Fitness Middle, recreation spaces, Outtakes Café, pattern labs, and Student Life. Each room measures 11x16 ft, and enjoys a individual bath with shower. Every fly offers large student lounges built for collaboration.

The Cove

Located on Whitaker Bayou, The Cove offers singles, doubles, and triples and requires students to take a meal plan. Each double and triple has a individual bathroom, and the singles enjoy a one-half bath and shared hall showers. Outdoor areas are set up for waterside dining, lounging, and manatee spotting!

Keating Hall

Keating is a fully restored,1920s era hotel that is located about the Hammond Eatables dining hall, Student Eye, classrooms, and studios. Measuring 10x10 ft, these unmarried bedrooms offer a unique, historical living feel in the middle of the campus. Bathrooms/showers are located downwards the hall.

Third and Quaternary Year Housing

Students in their third and fourth years at Ringling College are housed in the Ulla Searing Student Heart, The Cove, Roy and Susan Palmer Quadrangle, Bayou Village Apartments, Bridge Hall Apartments, 2409 Bradenton Rd, and "Near Campus" Housing. Upper-course student Resident Assistants (RAs) live in each area of pupil housing and come with fun activities for students to build community while helping to facilitate a comfortable and safe living environs. Master's level professionals also live on campus and provide additional back up.

Ulla Searing Student Centre

Students in Ulla Searing have in-firm access to an array of student resources, including the Fitness Center, recreation spaces, Outtakes Café, design labs, and Student Life. Each room measures 11x16 ft, and enjoys a private bath with shower. Every wing offers large educatee lounges built for collaboration.

The Cove

Located on Whitaker Bayou, the Cove offers singles, doubles, and triples and requires students to have a meal plan. Each double and triple has a private bathroom, and the singles enjoy a half bathroom and shared hall showers. Outdoor areas are set up for waterside dining, lounging, and manatee spotting!

Roy and Susan Palmer Quadrangle

These apartments are located near our Bookish Center and are set up similar traditional two chamber apartments, some with two bathrooms and some with one. Apartments with two bathrooms hold three students, while those with one bath serve two. All of these units have full kitchens.

Bayou Hamlet Apartments

Fully renovated in 2021, this option is for students who want more independence. These are some of the nigh sought-later rooms on campus, each suite consists of four singles, two bathrooms, a living room, full kitchen, and patio/balustrade.

Bridge Hall Apartments

Located beyond the Whitaker Bayou to the due east side of the Bayou Apartments, this is our newest apartment style residence. Almost apartments consist of four unmarried bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room and total kitchen. Amenities include a pedestrian span that connects to the Bayou Village, patio with ping pong, and secure wheel storage.

2409 Bradenton Road (formerly Family Housing)

Nosotros offering both one bedroom and two sleeping accommodation units in this eight unit of measurement edifice near campus. Offering a wonderful view of Whitaker Bayou, this structure is located near the Bookish Center and plenty of student resources.

"Near Campus" Houses

Ringling College has been steadily acquiring unmarried family houses in the community surrounding our campus to provide a more independent lifestyle for upper-grade students. We renovate as needed and manage them through Housing and Residence Life. Houses are typically two or three occupancy with both singles and doubles.

Returning Student Housing Contract

Dining

Ringling students have their option of several on-campus dining locations, operated past Chartwells Higher & University Dining Services:

• Hammond Commons Our all-y'all-can-eat dining hall where yous can run into up with friends and sit down downwards together for a meal.
• Brickman Café Conveniently located in the Academic Center for a quick lunch or a Starbucks coffee.
• Outtakes Quick Cuisine Centrally located for a bite on the way to class or a identify to lounge between lectures.
• Painter's Palette Nutrient Truck Parked conveniently outside of Goldstein Hall to grab something on the go!
• Roberta's Café Located in the Goldstein Library for a quick pause from bookish piece of work!

Coming in Spring 2023, Cunniffe Commons, a new state-of-the-art new dining complex including a market will open and replace Hammond Commons and Outtakes Café.

Before long, students can choose from three meal plans based on how many meals they plan to consume on campus – The Ultimate nineteen (all meals eaten on campus), The Flex 15 (fifteen meals a week on campus) or The But seven (simply vii meals a week on campus).

Some residence halls require Ringling Repast Plans:

• The Ultimate xix Programme is required for students living in first year housing.
• Residents of Keating Hall may choose betwixt the Ultimate 19 and the Flex 15.
• Residents of The Cove and Ulla Searing Student Center may choose any meal plan - Only seven, Flex 15, or Ultimate nineteen.
• Meal plans are optional for those in apartment style housing, equally well as for commuters.

Sustainability at Ringling

Hither at Ringling we are committed to a green and sustainable future.

We believe that through teaching, collaboration, and creativity nosotros tin aid brand our campus and the world a cleaner, healthier, and brighter identify to be.

Sustainability at Ringling

Where You Belong

Educatee Support Services

Health and Counseling Services

Fifty-fifty the healthiest of usa get sick sometimes, so we offer on-campus health services for all students, regardless of your insurance provider. In partnership with Sarasota Memorial Infirmary, Ringling College provides on-campus medical services and is equipped to diagnose and care for most common illnesses and conditions.

No engagement is needed to drop in and encounter one of our medical professionals well-nigh your aches and pains, small-scale injuries, routine checkups, prescription needs, and more than. Ringling Students can e'er receive care at the Sarasota Memorial Urgent Intendance Center for additional services or after hours intendance. Email: medical@ringling.edu

Counseling

We also offering free counseling and mental wellness services in a confidential and supportive environment. This includes individual and grouping counseling, educational programming, emergency psychological services, and, for longer-term care, consultations with domicile and community providers. We are here to make sure y'all are happy, salubrious, and supported throughout your studies at Ringling College. Email: counseling@ringling.edu

Get to our Wellness Services page

Public Safety

The safety of our students is paramount. That'due south why we have a professional staff of uniformed Public Condom Officers on campus effectually the clock. We use top-grade admission control on the outside of every residence hall, ample lights and call towers effectually campus and parking facilities, and resources for interested students to learn how to protect themselves and their property. E-mail: publicsafety@ringling.edu

We want you to be rubber and comfortable here, and we are committed to taking every effort to make that happen.

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Pupil Access Services

Ringling College is committed to providing equal access opportunities for all students. Pupil Access Services (SAS) works collaboratively with faculty, staff, and students to ensure that appropriate accommodations, services, resources, and referrals are made that provide disinterestedness both in the academic surroundings and in campus life. SAS works with all campus resources to ensure that equitable and inclusive learning environments and campus participation is a shared responsibility of the campus community. E-mail: sas@ringling.edu

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Pupil Learning Centre

The Ringling College Student Learning Center (SLC) offers academic support services available for all students free of charge. We welcome students looking for aid in their classes with writing, software nuts, studying, project development, and more. Additionally, we support those looking to develop skills such as organization, time direction, and conversational English language. Students' bookish goals vary, so appointments are individualized to meet your needs. Nosotros're here to aid. Electronic mail: slc@ringling.edu

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Beyond the Studio

Student Activities and Leadership

Ringling College students are active, interested, and involved! Learn more about our student-led clubs and leadership opportunities.

Recreation and Wellness

We know that happy artists and designers lead lives that are balanced and well-rounded, so we invite our students to take advantage of our various health and wellness programs available.

Susan Palmer Fitness Center

For those who like to get their hearts pumping and bodies moving, our on-campus Susan Palmer Fettle Eye offers a number of options. Students tin nourish i of many Group Fitness classes, receive Personal Training, or put on their headphones and work out solo with our countless cardio and weight machines, free weights, medicine balls, resistance bands, and more. And to meet your crazy schedules, we keep the doors open up tardily. Nosotros besides encourage Ringling students to get involved with clubs, organizations, local trips and outings, and our Mindful Campus program. We take many social club sports such equally soccer, basketball game, and even rowing! In recent years, trips have ranged from baseball games to Myakka River State Park, to American Ninja Warrior courses, and more than.

More than details can exist found at wellness.ringling.edu .

Pupil Clubs

Want to meet students with similar interests? Whether that is Harry Potter, gardening, knitting, or typography, nosotros probably have a club for it.

Join a society

We have a lodge for almost everything. So leap right in—or even start your own!

• Anime Club
• American Order of Interior Designers
• ART Network
• Armadillo Football game
• Basketball Bonsai Tree Lodge
• Creative Suite Club
• Digital Painting Sketch Club
• Figure Enhancement with Students Order
• Fellowship of Christian Art Students Club
• Game Design Club
• Gaming Club
• Gay-Straight Alliance
• International Interior Design
• Association Club
• Illest of Illustration Club
• Knitting Order
• Ministry of Magic MANA Club
• The Mixers
• MOSAIC
• The Music Minors Social club
• Resident Educatee Association
• Ringling Improv Group
• Ringling Moba League
• Ringling Quidditch Team
• Soccer Gild
• Tealings Society
• Type Club
• Ultimate Frisbee
• U.s.a. Light-green Building Quango Gild
  

Leadership Opportunities

Looking for a chance to lead? Our Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development encourages students to take the reins which is great experience for your hereafter career. Join the Campus Activities Board and aid organize campus events. Or, participate in the Student Government Association to aid be the phonation of your peers. Have advantage of leadership workshops and field trips. Larn how to lead and make the positive changes you want to come across around campus.

Campus Ministry building

Join communities that will permit y'all to explore and embrace your faith. Our Campus Ministry building works with students of all religious affiliations to find the back up and services they seek. Whether you are looking for a place to meditate, a group of like-minded worshipers, or merely someone to talk to, our Campus Minister is here to help.

Nosotros support student-led groups on campus to bring in speakers, concur prayer sessions, and learn more about their religion and that of others around them through interfaith forums. We are a fellow member of the Hillel Affiliate of Manatee County. We also support regular Cosmic mass on campus as requested by our students. Regardless of your faith, nosotros are here to aid you connect with your organized religion community and offer guidance.

Volunteerism

Become ready to requite back! Each year, Ringling College dedicates over 14,000 hours of service to the local community—an in-kind value of over $200,000! Bring together young man students planting community gardens, educational activity art to local kids, cleaning up the environment, and painting murals.

Overview

Student Volunteerism and Service-Learning

The Student Life Office and Student Volunteerism and Service-Learning staff provide customs service opportunities for the growth and development of the entire Ringling Higher community. A great deal of your learning across the classroom tin can take identify through volunteerism. Becoming a student volunteer volition assistance you gain professional skills and feel; you will become more than socially responsible, gain a sense of belonging, run across other volunteers with like values and interests, learn leadership skills, comprehend diversity, and gain perspective by seeing others with dissimilar or more than astringent challenges than your own. Your worldview will be expanded every bit you gain insight into the Sarasota community and across.

As a Ringling Higher volunteer, you lot can share your strengths – creative or otherwise – and have meaningful community experiences.

Contact Information

Ulla Searing Student Center

Robert Perkins Educatee Life Wing

volunteerism@ringling.edu

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Programs

RVO, Federal Work Study Programme

Ringling College of Art and Design'southward department of Student Volunteerism and Service-Learning has hired student Federal Work Report employees each year to expand our community outreach to even greater potential. This educatee grouping, called RVO (Ringling Volunteerism), is working hard to implement new marketing strategies, increase campus club and organisation involvement, and strengthen our existing partnerships with local not-turn a profit organizations. A huge 'thank you' to our hard-working student employees who are a wonderful instance of service at Ringling College and to the Sarasota customs!

Educatee Ambassadors

This grouping is fabricated upwardly of volunteer students nominated by the heads of the bookish departments and staff members of various student/academic support services. The students are chosen because they excel in and out of the classroom and those who nominated them believe they will serve as cracking representatives of their young man students and Ringling College.

YEA! Program

Ringling College of Fine art and Pattern recognizes that artists and designers play a meaning role in society. The College's primary mission is to provide programs leading to degrees that set students to exist discerning visual thinkers and upstanding practitioners in their chosen area of art and design.

The YEA! (Youth Experiencing Art) Program at Ringling College of Art and Design provides art and arts integration experiences to PreK-12th grade teachers and students. YEA! pairs Ringling Higher students with classroom teachers and art teachers. These pairs co-develop, co-teach, and co-appraise the projects connected to the students' curriculum. By leveraging the learning through long-term residencies, students have multiple arts experiences that are personally meaningful and relevant.

The Lazarus Foundation Scholarship

The Lazarus Foundation awards scholarships and grants to Ringling students who have demonstrated a commitment to community service. Applicants are asked to depict their past service experiences and to create a future plan that will benefit the local community. Students will commencement receive the grant money to carry out the proposed project. Scholarship money volition be awarded awaiting completion of the projection. Applicants must be registered Ringling College students.

International Campus

There's no such matter as a typical Ringling student. Our student body is composed of emerging artists and designers from all effectually the globe and every corner of the U.s.a.. At Ringling, we welcome international dialogue and foster respect and inclusion because inspiration and creativity don't thrive in a vacuum – the best artists and designers inspire and engage with the global community.

International Educatee Affairs

Nosotros welcome art and design students from around the world! To brand y'all feel at dwelling house, introduce you lot to all of our resources, and ease the transition, we offering a broad array of services available on campus.

International Student Diplomacy

Our International Pupil Affairs department is centrally located to provide assistance and support for our many students from abroad. Achieve out to us for anything yous need, whether that be about employment, visas, tax forms, or travel. Nosotros will let you know what paperwork you demand, what resources are available to yous on campus, and what steps you demand to take to stay upwards to date.

Upon your arrival, yous will check in with the Ringling College International Student Counselor to address whatever questions you may accept and make you feel right at home. If you accept any questions regarding resources for international students at Ringling Higher, delight contact Amy Pettengill at apetteng@ringling.edu or 941.893.2051.

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