A message from the Counseling Dept.
In most cases, residential living is the first time many students live away from home. They leave their friends, their parents, and much of their previous way of life behind them. Students must adjust to new freedoms, new responsibilities and new temptations. Sometimes this is not easy. Long Island University's (Brooklyn Campus) Richard L. Conolly Hall is unique among college residence facilities in that we have a residential counselor and counseling department. The Residence Hall Counselor and staff of Peer Counselors are here to support and facilitate positive community living and personal growth. They provide support for academic difficulties, roommate issues, and for personal/family problems such as relationships and grief. Although each staff member has office hours, they also seek to assist by getting to know the residents, and by becoming involved in their lives, their hopes, their fears and their dreams.