Cooperative living has been an integral part of Stanford University’s residential system for the last 41 years. It’s been an integral part of my life for the last four years, and this is what coops mean to me. Cooperative living, to me, means sharing ownership and responsibility not just for a building, its supplies, and […]

The motto for Stanford’s cooperative community is More than the Sum of its Smarts. It encompasses seven houses, Chi Theta Chi, Columbae, Enchanted Broccoli Forest, Hammarskjold, Kairos, Synergy and Terra. The members of the housing cooperative are students at Stanford, they also run the houses, sharing household duties.