Stern - Housing

Stern Hall welcomes womxn-identified students. Located next to Foothill on the northeast side of campus, Stern is quiet with easy access to nature and hiking trails.
A triple room is shown in Stern Hall. Rooms are single, double and triple-occupancy.
Bedroom furnishings include extra-long twin beds, desks, chairs, dresser, mirror, and closet.
Bedrooms have carpeting, a microwave, and a mini-refrigerator, with many utilities included.
Residence halls have shared bathrooms; each suite has its own shared bathroom.
Stern Hall buildings provide high speed WiFi. Stern is especially convenient to STEM buildings nearby.
Stern Hall residents share the campus eSports Center and Foothill Dining Commons with residents of Foothill Residence Hall.
There is secured entry and access to the building, as well an on-site laundry center, fitness center, mail services, bike storage, and recreation room.

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About The Residence Hall Complex

Welcomes womxn-identified students.
Nestled in the Berkeley hills next to the Foothill complex on the northeast side of campus. Especially convenient to STEM buildings including the College of Engineering.
A quiet area with easy access to nature and hiking trails.
Includes both traditional residence hall and suite-style housing.
Double, triple, and a limited number of single occupancy rooms are available (General Note: There are very few single rooms, and they are typically reserved for students with a documented disability need).
Bathrooms: Shared community bathrooms in residence halls; each suite has its own shared bathroom.
Nearest dining commons: Foothill Dining Commons (located next to Stern).
Theme Program: Stern’s second floor houses the Empowering Womxn in STEAM (WISE) program, which welcomes interested students who experience life through the lens of womxn in body, spirit, and identity- past, present, future, and fluid. As a result, the second floor is designed to be inclusive of transgender and gender-fluid or nonbinary students.

Who’s Eligible to Apply?

Undergraduates: First-year students, continuing students, and transfer students.

Amenities

Residents of the building have access to the following amenities:
Blue & Gold Meal Plan (upgrades and add-ons available)
Utilities: High-speed Wi-Fi, gas, electric, water, garbage, recycling, and compost
Furnishings: extra-long twin bed (triple rooms include a bunk bed & a lofted bed), desk, chair, dresser, mirror, and closet
Microchill refrigerator and microwave combo
Professional live-in staff available 24/7
Laundry center, mail services, and bike storage
Fitness center and recreation room
Three tiers of secured entry and access for buildings
Academic Services Center
Smoke and Tobacco free environment

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Room Layouts

Three images highlight the features of a single room in Stern.
- Entrance: The door opens on the left side of the room, opening to the living space. A built-in dresser and cabinet are built into the room to the right of the entrance against the internal wall. The window is in the wall opposite of the entrance.
- Left wall: The left wall has a mirror nearest the door and a whiteboard near the far corner. A desk with a chair is in the far corner beneath the whiteboard.
- Exterior wall: The bookshelf resides next to the bed under the window against the exterior wall.
- Right wall: The twin extra-long bed is oriented along the right wall with the head of the bed against the exterior wall. At the base of the bed is the dresser.
Three images highlight the features of a double room in Stern.
- Entrance and opposite wall: The door opens inward to the room. To the left and right of the door against the wall are cabinets. The far wall has one four-pane window and a two-pane half window.
- Right and left wall: One twin extra-long bed is on either side of the room against the right or left wall, with the head of the bed adjacent to the exterior wall.
- Desks and chairs: Two desks, each with a chair, are oriented facing one another against the exterior wall.
Four images highlight the features of a triple room in Stern.
- Entrance and opposite wall: The door opens inward to the room. To the left and right of the door against the wall are built-in cabinets and dressers. The far wall has two windows.
- Desks and chairs: Below the windows against the far wall, three desks are clustered against the exterior wall. Two desks are facing one another, and a third desk is aligned with the sides of the two facing desks.
- Right and left walls: Two mirrors next to the cabinets adorn the right and left walls. One tall dresser and one short dresser are oriented at the foot of the beds.
- Beds: One bunkbed is aligned against the right wall, and one loft bed is aligned along the right wall.
Five images highlight the features of a Stern Suite.
- Entrance: The door opens inward to a short hallway. A door on the right leads to the bathroom.
- Bathrooms: The main area includes two sinks, while doors to the right and left enter the toilet and shower with a changing area.
- Common area: At the end of the entrance hallway, to the left, is a common area with two love seats, four chairs, and two tables.
- Bedrooms: To the right at the end of the entrance hallway, another short hallway provides doors to the three bedrooms. Bedrooms have two to three windows each, two twin extra-long beds, one on the left and one on the right, two desks with chairs facing one another in the center of the room, and built-in dressers and cabinets in the interior wall.

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