Congratulations Class of 2028!
Your Northwestern experience begins soon, and this is the perfect time to start thinking about housing your first year on campus! One of the best ways to connect with other new students on campus is by joining a residential college, like Shepard. We'd love for you to join our community of Sheeple! Click the button below to learn more!
Both an entertaining hub for social activities and a quiet place for study, Shepard aims to be comfortable for everybody. Typically housing 75 residents, Shepard’s dorms in South Mid Quads are located on South Campus in the Southwest Area of Northwestern. As a multi-thematic residential college, Shepard's residents possess a myriad of majors, minors, and interests—connecting engineers with music composers, coders with filmmakers, and everyone in between. Each week, the Sheep (a loving name given to Shepard residents) are supplied with a slew of social events, such as Munchies, Game Nights, Movie Nights, and Firesides. Among Shepard’s most popular events are the Woo-Shep Olympics against their rival (Willard), the end-of-quarter Coffeehouse, and the Spring Formal. In addition to fostering a friendly environment, Shepard provides a place for students to interact with faculty members from various disciplines. In fact, Shepard has more fellows than any other Residential College! Lastly, every fall, Shepard offers amazing guidance for the Lambs (first-years) as they begin their new lives as Northwestern students.
- RCB Website
- RCB Website
Check out the Welcome Letter from our President and Faculty Chair!
Hello, Class of 2028!
Welcome to Shepard Residential College! We’re so excited to have you living in the coziest dorm on campus next year! At Shepard, our goal is to foster a tight-knit community that you can fall back on while you begin to make friends and connections at college. As a residential college, we host regular variety events that you can attend to build relationships with other residents, have fun and most importantly get free food! Shepard is a multi-thematic residential college, which means that from your first day on campus, you'll be interacting with students and faculty from a wide variety of disciplines with a diverse range of interests. We are located in South Mid Quads (that’s 655 University Place—keep that in mind when you’re moving in!), which is home to just under seventy-five residents. Our mascot, appropriately a sheep, is proudly represented through our dorm merch, decor and activities. As one of the smaller residential colleges, we're a close community that provides plenty of opportunities to get to know people, and develop friendships with fellow “Sheep” (that’s how we refer to ourselves in honor of our mascot, the sheep). We’re run by an exec board that you can turn to if you have any questions, and if you just want to talk. Our Discord server is perfect for chatting and asking questions! The executive board consists of a President, Communications Chair, Treasurer, Social Chair, Academic Chairs, and an Outreach Chair. You can find more information about us as individuals on our website—just go to the People tab! We’re all available to help you out, provide nuggets of wisdom, or crush you on Rock Band 4 (ask Hunter). Our majors span a variety of schools and subjects, and we’ve gone through course selection enough times to answer any questions you might have. We also can recommend people to get in touch with, especially when it comes to faculty associated with Shepard! We’ll try to make your time at Shepard the best it can be, and make it your home for however long you want it to be! We’ve chosen to live in Shepard for all kinds of reasons, but have found friends in everyone we’ve met. After living in SMQ for a year, we can all agree that there’s nowhere we’d rather live on campus! We’ve become friends with our fellows and have received all sorts of advice on life, social, and academic problems and decisions. Congratulations on making it to Northwestern, and we’re beyond excited to get you started on your incredible journey here!
You can read more about our college here: https://shepardrc.weebly.com/
Please join our Discord here: https://discord.gg/V3xcVvqJR9
If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
Can’t wait to meet you!
~Shepard Exec Board
As the Faculty Chair at Shepard Residential College, it is my pleasure to welcome our newest residents, our new “sheep” to our world! I have enjoyed meeting all the current sheep and look forward to meeting our newest residents soon. Through our many community building events, firesides, and outings, you will find an inclusive and welcoming space where you can get to know not only your fellow students, but many faculty members from diverse backgrounds.
When I am not running around campus to attend a Fellows’ lunch or event, you can find me in the Middle East and North African Languages Program where I teach Arabic. It’s a smaller yet lively program filled with great events and even more amazing food. Often you will see me with a child or two (or more) accompanying me to an evening event. I am a native of Chicago and alumna of Northwestern, where I studied Economics and have very vivid memories of the fast-paced Northwestern quarter system. After working in consulting for a bit, I pursued graduate education in Near Eastern Studies and specialized in the teaching of Arabic. Since then, I have been teaching all levels of Arabic and enjoy teaching Media Arabic and the history of Arab immigration to the US. Most people are surprised that I am not a native Arabic speaker of Arabic or of Arab descent!
Shepard is located strategically close to downtown Evanston and all the nice shops, restaurants, and cafes. It’s also very easy to catch the intercampus shuttle and get to downtown Chicago. The “residential neighborhoods” on south campus also provide lots of great amenities and you will find many cool resources close by.
At Shepard, I can meet students and faculty I would never get to know and experience Northwestern’s diverse intellectual environment. Our College staff consists of Beth Pardoe (Associate Faculty Chair) who is a vital resource in the Office of Fellowships and ready to meet up with you at the dining hall, and Judith (Hudi) Licht (Graduate Assistant) who does some amazing research on the brain and is always helping at our events. We are all looking forward to getting to know you very soon and meeting you in person at our various events.
If you have any questions about Shepard, Northwestern, the Middle East and North Africa, or about Chicago, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Welcome Class of 2028!
~ Fatima Khan
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Website last updated: 4/9/2023
Website last updated: 4/9/2023
