Rental rates for these apartments are considerably under rates for comparable housing in Hyde Park. Housing applications are sent to all students upon their admission to the seminary and should be returned as soon as possible. Assignments are made on the basis of need, date of application, and availability of requested apartment size. CORE works to strengthen the intellectual and devotional life at LSTC as well as to facilitate the building of community. In relation to the faculty and administration, it serves as an advocate on behalf of student needs.
CORE consists of representatives of each class as well as of students' spouses.
Students also are welcome to attend meetings of the faculty and the Board of Directors, except for executive sessions. At the post-M.Div. level, the Graduate Students Association serves to foster social and intellectual interaction among graduate students and to represent their concerns. For a month each year, normally in January, seminary life is enriched by the full-time presence on campus of a pastor selected by the Faculty Life Committee on the basis of recommendations from the Alumni Association. The Pastor in Residence is available for consultation and counseling, leads workshops on special areas of ministry, offers guest lectures in appropriate courses, preaches and officiates at chapel services, and makes pastoral calls on students in their apartments. This much-appreciated program is made possible by an annual grant from the LSTC Alumni Association.