The need of being versed in country things.
Books to take to the beach or set beside your summer easy chair.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-collegiate-summer-reading
The Australian Survey of Student Engagement looks at residential colleges.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-engaging-college-communities
The University of Macau’s Hengqin campus will have a residential college system.
A strategy session with Ahmad Durrani of the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Perhaps this means our revolution is complete.
The Macao Daily News recommends a collegiate system for the new Hengqin campus.
‘Without conversation and cooperation between subjects and disciplines, the achievements and riches of this place and others like it would be so much more limited than they are.’
Are you looking after the welfare of your graduate students?
Household hints for managing a Great Household (where you’re always teaching).
The arc of the moral universe is long, but we can bend it toward justice.
New construction in an old college shows how to maintain good collegiate scale.
‘He that delights to plant and set, leaves after-ages in his debt.’
The style is traditional, and the designs embody many good collegiate principles.
The proposed residential colleges at LUMS draw more international attention.
‘Why not live in place where I can have professors as friends?’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-lahore-residential-colleges
Mississippi’s residential college: ‘a new kind of academic community.’
‘These students will really be able to have a better connection with their professors.’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-mississippi-residential-college
‘Be not solitary; be not idle.’
Can the residential college movement learn anything from the charter school movement?
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-charter-schools-charter-colleges
A leading liberal arts college considers how to strengthen its existing residential programs.
‘Structure is essential for community building.’
‘The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world.’
Fill all the residential staff positions open this year across the country with Ph.D.’s.
‘Every dorm on campus should have the benefits of a residential college.’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-northwestern-residential-colleges
An undergraduate wonders why Stanford’s housing isn’t as good as its collegiate peers.
You’re always teaching. Even on Valentine’s Day.
‘I cannot but say, I reckon the collegiate way of living in our English Universities, where lads have their particular tutors, as well as each house has a separate master, empowered to keep in ...
The University of Malaya knows how to do ‘intellectual fun’ in residential college life.
Residential colleges are planned for an important Pakistani university.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2009-lums-residential-colleges
Robbie Burns’ 250th is a fine opportunity for teaching with-out the curriculum.
Decentralized student advising is a characteristic feature of collegiate universities.
Help Cambridge University ring in its 800th anniversary celebration.
‘College students find comfort in their pets during hard times.’
Curricular reform is always welcome, but that’s not what higher education needs most.
In 2008 the collegiate way of living made encouraging advances around the world.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-residential-college-review
A residential college is a great household. It should feel like one at Christmastime.
‘Not for ambition or bread, but for the common wages of their most secret heart.’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-support-the-collegiate-way
Join millions of people around the world for this great residential college tradition.
And if you light candles, they may even dress up.
Harvard’s president calls for long-term renewal of the university’s residential colleges.
St. John’s Jesuit High School is establishing a comprehensive collegiate house system.
Tuanku Bahiyah College will host the GACC World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship.
The social environment of a residential college should be one of equality and familiarity.
The Chinese University of Hong Kong reports on its growing residential college system.
The University of Mississippi understands the importance of collegiate ceremony.
Non-residential house systems are catching on at schools around the world.
The first-year component of Vanderbilt’s residential college system is off to a good start.
What can house systems offer to students in community colleges?
The Cookeville campus looks to Murray State’s residential colleges as a public model.
‘And who knows when was the equinox?’
If your college has no playful traditions, matey, why would anyone want to belong to it?
The ‘West Campus’ house system at Cornell University will soon be complete.
The University of Colorado continues to include residential colleges in its future plans.
‘Marks the place where a story ended.’
Applications are now being accepted for the college’s opening in Fall 2009.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-ole-miss-residential-college
The ‘America’s Best Colleges’ edition of U.S. News & World Report is so last millennium.
‘Cornerstone of private schools helps pupils to settle in.’
Vance Fried incorporates a house system into his low-cost college proposal.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-college-of-entrepreneurial-leadership
Miguel Pires Prôa on the residential colleges of Coimbra, translated by Frank Cranmer.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2008-coimbra-university-colleges
Virginia Woolf College will be Kent’s fifth residential college.
Donald Markwell on the importance of the collegiate way of living in Australia.
The best volume of essays on residential college life is now available online.
A Cambridge University residential college receives a 50th anniversary gift.
House systems are recommended for UK schools as a performance-boosting measure.
‘Let this of you be said: that you who live are worthy of the dead.’
Is ‘the basement of the ivory tower’ an alma mater or an assembly line?
‘One of the problems of such an institution as the University of California is so to subdivide its student body that the advantages of the small group may be retained without sacrificing the ev...
What a perfect educational and environmental opportunity for a residential college.
Education is not an industrial process.
‘We need some sort of mechanism for improving campus community and student life.’
‘Guiding the construction is the idea that learning can’t be confined to lecture halls.’
The ‘academical village’ is alive and well at Mr. Jefferson’s university.
‘Win your world.’
New-college recommendations from alumni and friends (including me).
A residential college is just the kind of place to counter ‘the extinction of experience.’
‘Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.’
A home-away-from-home is more important than ‘luxury bricks and mortar.’
‘It is a family approach where younger students look up to the older ones.’
Occasional learning on the 50th birthday of a 200-year-old geologist.
Membership, not residence, is the key relation, but the language of membership is conspicuously absent from most of American higher education.
Will you be teaching with-out the curriculum this evening?
It will be the first expansion of Yale’s collegiate system since the 1960s.
Students need cross-sectional residential colleges, not segregated theme halls.
If American higher education is to be exported, let’s export the best it has to offer.
‘They have never thought of the university as a community of teachers and pupils.’
Six new residential colleges will extend the reach of the collegiate way in Asia.
The University of Alabama at Birmingham could be a model for other public campuses.
Residential colleges (and school houses) are permanent societies that grow deep roots.
It’s been a good year for friends of the collegiate way of living around the world.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2007-residential-college-movement
Please become a ‘fan’ of the Collegiate Way’s new profile on facebook.com.
‘A British college’s annual holiday tradition contains lessons for us all, writes Robert O’Hara’ at Inside Higher Ed.
Humane profiles of the life and work of two residential college masters.
‘And the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.’
Themed housing is easy to sell, but in education what’s easy isn’t always best.
Profiles in philanthropy: Donald Bren vs. Edward Harkness.
The collegiate way, at the school level, is part of a major British education proposal.
An existing living-learning program will become Baylor’s next collegiate society.
The Morning Call reports on the establishment of South Mountain College.
In 18 months, the Chinese University of Hong Kong has been able to obtain donations to establish five new residential colleges.
Mississippi’s planned residential college system is part of its capital campaign.
Eleanor Roosevelt College hosts the Gilbane Higher Education Facilities Forum.
The vestiges of a once-great college system in Portugal can still be seen today.
Hinman College celebrates an important anniversary.
Southern Methodist University takes a look down the collegiate way.
Excellent essays on residential college values, from Trinity College, Melbourne.
A noted Jesuit university in Connecticut contemplates the collegiate way.
If your college has no playful traditions, why would anyone want to belong to it?
First announced in 2002, Princeton’s new college welcomes its first members.
‘A largess universal, like the sun / His liberal eye doth give to every one.’
A review of recent residential trends on campus, with comments on ‘theme halls.’
On ceremony, state funerals, history, and education.
‘He that delights to Plant and Set, / Makes After-Ages in his Debt.’
The second new college in as many years will be founded at Rice University.
Abbey College on the Dunedin campus will be the university’s first graduate college.
More on the secondary-school counterpart of the residential college movement.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a good first step toward a collegiate system.
In the Education Life section, Bruce Weber reports on ‘The Residential Collage.’
‘We made a decision not to do “thematic housing” because engineering students (for example) are with other engineers all day long in the classroom. They wouldn’t get the richness of meeti...
Many people come to the residential college idea by way of the Hogwarts houses.
The new colleges at CUHK are an integral part of the university’s expansion plans.
Take a photographic tour of one of the world’s original residential college systems.
A lovely informal photo tour is available from a Melbourne employee.
‘There I experienced formal dinners celebrating everything from new sophomores to illustrious past House residents, apple pickings and barbecues, and dining hall conversations about politics an...
C.W. Chu College and Wu Yee Sun College will be home to 900 students in all.
Residential colleges don’t require new buildings, but bad old ones can get in the way.
Valson Thampu is the new Principal of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.
‘Ministers believe social and emotional intelligence classes will help stop children from turning into louts.’
Is your campus a warm and friendly Shropshire, or a cold London?
Newman and Buckley offer a Catholic perspective on the value of residential colleges.
Residential college life is the same (and always popular) everywhere it’s found.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2007-universiti-putra-malaysia
A sketch of Cambridge collegiate life from visiting American scholar Anthony Grafton.
Of birds and titles and liberal education. It doesn’t get any better than this.
On crime, history, education, and understanding in university life.
Graduate students in residence will enrich the life of the campus.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2007-princeton-graduate-tutors
Residence life on American campuses has ‘come full circle.’
A collegiate system is reportedly in the works for the Shanghai university.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2007-fudan-university-house-system
Northeast Mississippi newspaper endorses residential college plans at Ole Miss.
The Philadelphia Metro takes note of faculty in residence.
Marketing slogans and vacuous vision statements come and go, but mottos endure.
Three residential colleges are being planned for the Oxford campus.
When it comes to the collegiate way of living, sometimes the students take the lead.
Celebrating half a century of collegiate life on the Houston campus.
Ustinov College at the University of Durham shows the way.
Residential colleges and faculty in residence draw national media attention again.
Kaneko Commons will include many of the elements of a residential college.
Oregon State University’s public accounting system should be a model for the world.
A colloquium to be hosted in 2008 by St. John’s College at the University of Sydney.
‘Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!’
The Goleta Valley Junior High School in California has created a house system.
Princeton University offers a photographic tour of its newest residential college.
Both seek to divide a large school into smaller, human-friendly components.
Vanderbilt to open freshman Commons as the basis of its collegiate system.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2007-vanderbilt-freshman-commons
A performance of Duruflé’s Requiem is now available online.
Teach everywhere, everyday, and they will learn everywhere, everyday.
Susan Martin’s ‘Trevs: A Celebration of 40 Years’ has just been published.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-trevelyan-college-history
This annual Christmas service embodies many important residential college principles.
A second university in Mexico starts a collegiate system.
The more grown-ups talk to young people, the smarter the young people get.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-what-it-takes-to-make-a-student
‘The future of higher education may lie in the English-speaking world’s oldest model of university organization, writes Robert O’Hara.’
A bookshelf is the clearest window into a person’s soul.
Princeton University establishes a new residential college website.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-princeton-collegiate-website
But at least one residential college dining hall does.
They’ll always make fun, but that doesn’t mean we have to provide them with material.
Well-reasoned proposals from students are always worth listening to.
An ‘image of excellence’ for college sports? Excellence in corruption and violence, says Robert O’Hara in The New Yorker.
‘Mom, think Harry Potter.’
A collegiate system in Kentucky celebrates an anniversary.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-murray-state-residential-colleges
West Virginia University’s first residential college keeps making news.
A four-year collegiate system is the university’s most important development.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-tilghman-residential-colleges
Proposals to expand the undergraduate population are discussed.
Fill your college with joy, love, laughter, and pirates (of doom).
Why do some universities bother to house students at all?
An exemplary model of sport and collegiate charity from Cambridge University.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-chariots-of-fire-charity-race
More collegiate news and views from ‘The Australian.’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-residential-colleges-australia
Begin with tea, and everything else in residential college life will follow.
Baylor University’s first residential college will open next fall.
‘Residential college communities feature in all the finest institutions.’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-australian-residential-colleges
And none of the bottom 50 universities in the US News rankings do.
WVU’s Morgantown campus is home to a new residential college.
The Nashville Business Journal reports on collegiate developments in Tennessee.
Josephine Butler College at Durham gives us a good description.
Notes from the annual meeting of the Society for College and University Planning.
Residential colleges can offer strong social networks that may be missing elsewhere.
An alumnus who helped plan Rice’s collegiate system will endow its next college.
St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University will soon become mixed.
Lincoln Hall will be the first residential college on WVU’s Morgantown campus.
Collegiate Way readers in the Boston area are cordially invited to attend.
On residential college newsletters, and teaching with-out the curriculum.
Strong adult support can cancel out the effects of ‘bad’ genes.
A coat of arms is the most traditional, and the most flexible, of all college symbols.
John Ruskin has some good company today.
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia has a collegiate house system.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-community-college-house-system
The first colleges will be created in the next two years, says The Daily Mississippian.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-mississippi-residential-colleges
The Daily Camera reports on CU’s first step toward a residential college system.
Peterhouse and Girton libraries are recognized, along with extensions to Jesus College.
‘I’ve witnessed the dramatic increase in intellectual vitality when a faculty member is in charge of the programming for residential college.’
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-usc-residential-college-system
‘There is a need in people to live with a secret place in their homes.’
The second important story in as many weeks on educational decentralization.
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-william-ouchi-decentralization
And if Vietnam is decentralizing, isn’t it time the United States did the same?
http://collegiateway.org/news/2006-vietnam-university-reform