At High Point University, the Department of Campus Life encourages wholeness and empowers students by creating a strong sense of self, camaraderie and community. The unity of the High Point experience is consistently emphasized among student, faculty and staff, whether playing sports, watching a favorite team, rehearsing for a play, meeting a deadline for a campus publication, debating a political issue, painting The Rock or gliding across the Greensward in pursuit of a lazy, floating disk.

The foundation of community is residential life. In a typical year, two-thirds of entering freshman come from states other than North Carolina; one-third from more than 500 miles away. As a result, students tend to stay on campus over the weekends. Even students who could easily go home often hang out on campus because there's so much to do on campus and in the surrounding community.