Women's Residential College (WRC)
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Size: 50 residents
Location: Hobart House, 630 Emerson Street
Master: Jeanne Weiland Herrick
senior lecturer in the Writing Program, Weinberg College
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WRC is one of the friendliest places at Northwestern, attracting students from all six undergraduate schools and from diverse nationalities and ethnic heritages. The WRC community includes a multidisciplanary group of fellows who join students for weekly lunches in the dining hall, participate in cross-campus residential college events in Chicago, and provide informal advising throughout the year.
WRC's student executive board plans a range of social, intellectual, cultural, and philanthropic activities. Some are on campus and practical or recreational, such as yoga or self-defense classes, Wednesday night "munchies," and attending Wildcat home games; other activities take students into Chicago to see a Shakespeare play on Navy Pier or to sample the city's many restaurants, galleries, shops, and museums.
 WRC's fireside series encourages awareness, reflection, and debate. Recent topics have included feminism, medieval cuisine, neoconservatism and masculinity, and Northwestern's career services and study abroad programs. Students in WRC's tutorial on "Writing the Female Body" study cerative nonfiction, and the college has held dinners with guest speakers such as poet Vrinda Nabar, author Rosellen Brown, and journalist Alex Kotlowitz.
A hallmark of WRC is its family-like atmosphere: Residents celebrate birthdays and invite one another home for the holidays. They may volunteer in tutoring programs and, with college fellows, participate in talent shows in the Hobart House lounge. WRC is a great place for expanding horizons and starting lifelong friendships.
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