Housing
Dining Hall
Bookstore
Student Activities
Child Care
Worship

Housing

BTSR offers dormitory style housing in the Louise and Harwood Cochrane Residence Hall, on the third floor of Graves Hall, and apartment style housing in Kraemer Hall.

Dormitory Style living

Individual rooms: $240 per month (hall bath, common room, common kitchen)
Efficiency Apartment: $470 per month

Kraemer Apartments

One bedroom: $585 per month
Two bedrooms: $695 per month

Monthly rent includes utilities with the exception of phone, internet, and cable.

Residences of Louise and Harwood Cochrane Residence Hall are required to purchase a meal plan.

Meal plan (September through May)

4 meals per week per academic year: $988
5 meals per week per academic year: $1,235

Please contact our Associate Dean for Student Life/Enrollment. with any questions regarding housing at BTSR.

To fill out an residence application click here for the .pdf or .doc application form.

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Dining Hall

Lingle Hall houses the RTC dining hall. Students, faculty or staff of the RTC schools may purchase individual meals. Students living in single dorm rooms are required to purchase a meal plan of either $680 (4 lunches per week) or $850 (5 lunches per week). Meal plans for a greater number of meals also are available.

The dining hall is open at breakfast hours Monday through lunch hours Friday, but does not serve meals on weekends or during extended breaks such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and spring break. For more information regarding the meal plans, contact the Associate Dean for Student Life/Enrollment..

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Bookstore

The Cokesbury Campus Bookstore is located in Lingle Hall and is operated for the benefit of the members of the RTC and the surrounding area. It carries over 3500 titles, in addition to texts for all BTSR courses. The bookstore also sells school supplies and items such as BTSR mugs, stationery, and T-shirts. Cokesbury provides students, faculty, staff and clergy a 20 percent discount on most book purchases.

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Student Activities

The office of the Director of Student Life or the Social Committee of the Student Government Association sponsors a number of regularly scheduled activities. Activities are open to students, faculty, staff, and their families.

These are opportunities to extend and deepen the community experience that is a part of BTSR. Extracurricular activities are oriented toward social fellowship, personal growth and/or mission. Opportunities consist of special retreats, community lunches, topical discussions or programs and outings in or around Richmond.

BTSR provides students with opportunities to find support and explore special interests. Although BTSR does not officially sanction any group, some continuing group opportunities exist through the BTSR choir, an ecology group, Student Spouse Fellowship and a campus chapter of the Alliance of Baptists. Other groups are encouraged as students' needs and interests are known.

Several areas are provided on campus for students to gather or relax. There is a small student lounge in the main BTSR building, a game room in Virginia Hall (adjacent to the main building), and a commuter lounge and study room in Lingle Hall, both shared with other RTC students.

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Child Care

BTSR and Union-PSCE jointly sponsor a Family Child Care Network whose coordinator provides referrals for students seeking childcare on campus or in Richmond. The network also sponsors a parents' child care cooperative, trained teenage caregivers, free monthly Parents' Nights Out, child care for campus events, and parent education. In addition, the network offers training and support for students' spouses who wish to provide childcare in their homes. Students and/or spouses interested in providing childcare in the community for extra income should contact the network. Additional information on the network is available from the BTSR Director of Student Life or from Network Coordinator Patti Williamson at (804) 914-1001.

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Worship

The seminary recognizes that corporate worship is a vital aspect of any community of faith. The community gathers for worship in the seminary's chapel on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings during Fall and Spring Terms; during Winter, May and Summer Terms, chapel is held once a week, usually on Wednesday. Chapel services are coordinated by the BTSR Worship Committee, which is made up of students, faculty and staff.

The RTC Worship Committee sponsors four joint chapels each academic year: opening convocation, Advent, Martin Luther King Day and Ash Wednesday. The RTC chapels rotate from campus to campus, and each is planned and led by a different RTC school. Students also are welcome to attend regular chapel services at the other schools in the Consortium.
Students also are encouraged to participate regularly in the life of their church congregations.

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