Residence Halls
Fredonia is a residential campus; only 15% of our students commute from home. Our 14 residence halls house approximately 2600 students in both corridor and suite style buildings. All freshmen and sophomores are required to live on campus with the option to move off campus after sophomore year. As a freshman you will likely live in a single gender residence hall with 24-hour intervisitation privileges; after your freshman year you may choose from the remaining co-ed residence halls. We encourage transfer students to live on campus as well to assist in more quickly feeling part of our amazing community. All rooms are set up as doubles. Each room is outfitted with two beds, dressers, chairs, desks, desk chairs, closets, and floor lamp, as well as cable TV/phone/internet ports as outlined below. The Residence Life Homepage is the source for your on-campus housing questions. An excellent Residence Hall Virtual Tour gives you a good look at living facilities.
Housing off-campus
If you are a transfer or non-traditional student seeking housing off campus, call the Student Association at (716) 673-3381 for information on area apartments and landlords.Campus safety
- our campus is well-lit
- shuttles provide transportation back and forth to parking lots
- parking lots are electronically monitored 24 hours/day
- access to residence halls is by ID card swipe unique to each building
- entry to residence hall between 9 PM and 7 AM via front door only
- residence halls are staffed in the front lobby from 9 PM to 7 AM
- Residence Life staff and University Police on duty 24 hours/day
- emergency phones are located across campus
Computer & Network Access
Many students bring personal computers, wireless devices and gaming systems to Fredonia. On-campus students are connected to the Internet by our ResNet Office. This office offers a variety of computer related services only to students living in the residence halls. Each residence hall room has two high-speed Ethernet connections available. SUNY Fredonia has a finite amount of bandwidth which is managed in a way that provides the highest possible quality of performance with an equitable balanced allocation to all network users. SUNY Fredonia places priority on inbound and outbound academic related Web (http) traffic and administrative network computing resources. Specific SUNY Fredonia bandwidth allocation and protocol classifications are confidential due to our information security policy.
Wireless access is not available in individual student rooms and router devices are not permitted. However, wireless access is available in most academic buildings, cafeterias, Starbucks, Reed Library and the main lobby areas of every residence hall. There are also computer labs located in many academic buildings. Information regarding computer labs and other information technology services is available at the ITS Helpdesk.