{"id":32,"date":"2015-09-15T14:36:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tcurlh.wpengine.com\/?page_id=32"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:07:47","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Housing and Residence Life creates the communities in which students live, study and build friendships. TCU is a residential campus by design, with more than 4,000 students living on campus. These students learn responsibility, problem-solving and how to be leaders. They begin to appreciate the unique perspective of others and develop a sense of belonging. The Department of Housing and Residence Life challenges, supports and educates residents within our communities to become responsible, aware and engaged citizens.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission<br \/>\n<\/strong>To empower students to develop authentic relationships and inclusive communities within an exceptional residential experience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vision<br \/>\n<\/strong>To lead the field in a world-class, relationship driven student housing experience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto<br \/>\n<\/strong>Knowing\u00a0 | Connecting | Empowering<\/p>\n<p><strong>Core Values<br \/>\n<\/strong>Inclusion\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Collaboration<br \/>\nSafety\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Purple Carpet Standard of Service<br \/>\nRelationships\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Holistic Development<br \/>\nIntegrity<\/p>\n<p class=\"page_subtitles\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tcurlh.wpengine.com\/central-office-staff\/\"><strong>Central Office Staff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"page_subtitles\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tcurlh.wpengine.com\/hall-directors\/\"><strong>Hall Directors<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"page_subtitles\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tcurlh.wpengine.com\/work-with-us\/\">Work With Us<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"page_subtitles\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tcurlh.wpengine.com\/diversity-statement\/\">Diversity Statement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"page_subtitles\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Housing and Residence Life creates the communities in which students live, study and build friendships. TCU is a residential campus by design, with more than 4,000 students living on campus&#8230;.  <a aria-label=\"Read more about About Us\" class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/about-us\/\" title=\"Read About Us\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-flexible-content.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-32","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housing.tcu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}