Ripon College offers its instructional facilities within a total social and residential environment. Attending this institution is a complete living situation in which all may participate. For this reason, all students except those who are married or who are living with their immediate families in the Ripon area, are required to live in the College residence halls. In this way, Ripon College strives to be a true "community of scholars" in the best sense of those words. Currently, 91 percent of the students live on campus. There are nine residence halls on campus offering a variety of living options. Typically, first-year students are housed together within groups of fewer than 20. First-year students who pledge fraternities and sororities continue to live in their halls until their sophomore year when they move into upperclass living areas.

All residence hall rooms are furnished with beds, desk, desk chairs, dressers, cable TV hook-up, internet access and voicemail.

A room lottery is conducted each year in late spring. Independent students select rooms based on class status. Upcoming seniors choose first, followed by juniors and sophomores. Students who join a Greek group are housed within space allocated to that group. The group assigns members to rooms based on criteria developed within their group (i.e., class status, GPA, etc.).

Students have the following options from which to choose:

• Coed by Alternating Floor
• Coed by Alternating Room
• Substance-Free Section
• Suite Option
• Single-Size Room (additional $175 per semester)
• Double-Size Room (additional $275 per semester)
• Apartment Single (additional $375 per semester)

As a residential institution, Ripon College provides quality living communities in which students are known and valued. As a part of this, the College's goals of residential living include:

• Challenging students to examine their abilities, interests, values and limitations.
• Creating an atmosphere which allows for recreational outlets, social interactions and study opportunities.
• Promoting floor unity and a sense of community.
• Within manageable parameters, allowing for student self-governance.
• Carefully considering students' rights, while reminding them of the responsibilities associated with those rights.
• Designing policies flexible enough to allow students to make their own choices and active enough to provide consequences.
• Confronting inappropriate behaviors from an educational point of view, focusing on a counseling rather than disciplinary point of view.
• Encouraging students to become actively involved in their extracurricular education, either as a participant or observer.
• Encouraging students to become actively involved in their curricular education, meeting regularly with advisers, using the library and computer resources, working with administrative offices, and interacting outside of class with professors.
• Disseminating information to students, making referrals, be a support network.
• Using a housing system which maximizes student input into room selection and minimizes subjective administrative decisions.
• Allowing freedom for rearranging student rooms to meet personal tastes.
• Providing a clean and safe residence hall environment.