The Collegiate Way

Collegiate Reading Recommendations

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:18:33 +0000

Books to take to the beach or set beside your summer easy chair.

Australian Residential College Research Reports

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:11:26 +0000

The Australian Survey of Student Engagement looks at residential colleges.

Collegiate Confirmation from Macau

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:26:36 +0000

The University of Macau’s Hengqin campus will have a residential college system.

Contemplating Collegiate Plans for Pakistan

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:08:44 +0000

A strategy session with Ahmad Durrani of the Lahore University of Management Sciences.

#10 Collegiate Way?

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:38:13 +0000

Perhaps this means our revolution is complete.

Residential Colleges for the University of Macau?

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:00:19 +0000

The Macao Daily News recommends a collegiate system for the new Hengqin campus.

Conversation and Integration in College Life

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:18:58 +0000

‘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.’

So Sad

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:10:19 +0000

Are you looking after the welfare of your graduate students?

A Toolbox for Every College Office

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 16:10:42 +0000

Household hints for managing a Great Household (where you’re always teaching).

自由

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:03:38 +0000

The arc of the moral universe is long, but we can bend it toward justice.

A New Court for Clare College

Mon, 25 May 2009 00:04:06 +0000

New construction in an old college shows how to maintain good collegiate scale.

“In lilac-time, in lilac-time”

Fri, 15 May 2009 19:10:34 +0000

‘He that delights to plant and set, leaves after-ages in his debt.’

Sketches of Yale’s New Residential Colleges

Wed, 13 May 2009 07:24:38 +0000

The style is traditional, and the designs embody many good collegiate principles.

University World News Notes the Collegiate Way

Tue, 05 May 2009 23:30:09 +0000

The proposed residential colleges at LUMS draw more international attention.

Collegiate Progress in Pakistan

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:37:46 +0000

‘Why not live in place where I can have professors as friends?’

Back to the Future via the Collegiate Way

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:38:26 +0000

Mississippi’s residential college: ‘a new kind of academic community.’

Mississippi Leads the (Collegiate) Way

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 03:16:44 +0000

‘These students will really be able to have a better connection with their professors.’

Portrait of a College Founder

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:02:32 +0000

‘Be not solitary; be not idle.’

From Charter Schools to Charter Colleges?

Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:33:32 +0000

Can the residential college movement learn anything from the charter school movement?

Visiting Vassar’s House System

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:15:15 +0000

A leading liberal arts college considers how to strengthen its existing residential programs.

House Systems for South African Schools

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:30:24 +0000

‘Structure is essential for community building.’

The Fierce Varieties of Men

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:09:09 +0000

‘The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world.’

How to Sharply Improve the Quality of Residence Life

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 14:30:51 +0000

Fill all the residential staff positions open this year across the country with Ph.D.’s.

Students Against Theme Halls

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:59:24 +0000

‘Every dorm on campus should have the benefits of a residential college.’

Stirrings at Stanford?

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:58:11 +0000

An undergraduate wonders why Stanford’s housing isn’t as good as its collegiate peers.

“You may blame Aphrodite”

Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:30:44 +0000

You’re always teaching. Even on Valentine’s Day.

An Early Sighting of “the Collegiate Way of Living”

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:46:14 +0000

‘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 order his own society, much to be preferred to the living so at large.’

More Intellectual Fun at the University of Malaya

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 01:30:35 +0000

The University of Malaya knows how to do ‘intellectual fun’ in residential college life.

Colleges for the Lahore University of Management Sciences

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 07:09:05 +0000

Residential colleges are planned for an important Pakistani university.

“Pith o’ sense an’ pride o’ worth”

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:05:37 +0000

Robbie Burns’ 250th is a fine opportunity for teaching with-out the curriculum.

Academic Advising in House Systems and Residential College Systems

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 04:31:23 +0000

Decentralized student advising is a characteristic feature of collegiate universities.

Ring a Bell for Cambridge Tonight

Sun, 18 Jan 2009 00:20:22 +0000

Help Cambridge University ring in its 800th anniversary celebration.

If You’ve Been Reading Along, You Already Know This

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:53:48 +0000

‘College students find comfort in their pets during hard times.’

The Twilight of the Germanic University

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:35:05 +0000

Curricular reform is always welcome, but that’s not what higher education needs most.

The Residential College Movement in Review

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:26:59 +0000

In 2008 the collegiate way of living made encouraging advances around the world.

College Christmas, College Home

Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:28:13 +0000

A residential college is a great household. It should feel like one at Christmastime.

Support the Collegiate Way

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 17:09:05 +0000

‘Not for ambition or bread, but for the common wages of their most secret heart.’

The Festival of Lessons and Carols from King’s

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 19:45:19 +0000

Join millions of people around the world for this great residential college tradition.

Feed Them and They Will Come

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:27:13 +0000

And if you light candles, they may even dress up.

Renewing the Harvard House System

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:20:29 +0000

Harvard’s president calls for long-term renewal of the university’s residential colleges.

Houses for an Ohio High School

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:04:45 +0000

St. John’s Jesuit High School is establishing a comprehensive collegiate house system.

Chess Championships and Collegiate Fun

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:42:56 +0000

Tuanku Bahiyah College will host the GACC World Inter-Varsity Chess Championship.

A Republic of Letters

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:57:15 +0000

The social environment of a residential college should be one of equality and familiarity.

A New Collegiate Website for CUHK

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 23:13:49 +0000

The Chinese University of Hong Kong reports on its growing residential college system.

Raising (and Signing) the Residential College Roof

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 22:50:52 +0000

The University of Mississippi understands the importance of collegiate ceremony.

Tales of Three House Systems

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:00:46 +0000

Non-residential house systems are catching on at schools around the world.

Time Takes Note of Vanderbilt’s Commons

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:33:12 +0000

The first-year component of Vanderbilt’s residential college system is off to a good start.

House Systems as Mutual Aid Societies

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:26:27 +0000

What can house systems offer to students in community colleges?

Tennessee Tech Considers the Collegiate Way

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:35:02 +0000

The Cookeville campus looks to Murray State’s residential colleges as a public model.

“The night of time far surpasseth the day”

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:01:14 +0000

‘And who knows when was the equinox?’

Avast, Ye Scurvy Dogs

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:36:24 +0000

If your college has no playful traditions, matey, why would anyone want to belong to it?

Cornell University Names Flora Rose House

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:51:49 +0000

The ‘West Campus’ house system at Cornell University will soon be complete.

Collegiate Confirmation in Colorado

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:45:04 +0000

The University of Colorado continues to include residential colleges in its future plans.

“Dust in the air suspended”

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:08:02 +0000

‘Marks the place where a story ended.’

Mississippi’s First Residential College Takes Shape

Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:22:21 +0000

Applications are now being accepted for the college’s opening in Fall 2009.

The Google College Rankings

Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:04:29 +0000

The ‘America’s Best Colleges’ edition of U.S. News & World Report is so last millennium.

Public Schools Urged to Establish House Systems

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:12:59 +0000

‘Cornerstone of private schools helps pupils to settle in.’

Value-Designed Models of Undergraduate Education

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:30:07 +0000

Vance Fried incorporates a house system into his low-cost college proposal.

The Lost Colleges of the University of Coimbra

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:10:35 +0000

Miguel Pires Prôa on the residential colleges of Coimbra, translated by Frank Cranmer.

A Graduate College for the University of Kent

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:22:32 +0000

Virginia Woolf College will be Kent’s fifth residential college.

‘A Renaissance in Collegiate Education?’

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:10:39 +0000

Donald Markwell on the importance of the collegiate way of living in Australia.

Ryan’s Collegiate Way of Living Now Available Online

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:17:17 +0000

The best volume of essays on residential college life is now available online.

New Hall Becomes Murray Edwards College

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:31:45 +0000

A Cambridge University residential college receives a 50th anniversary gift.

House Systems for Under-Performing Schools

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:52:03 +0000

House systems are recommended for UK schools as a performance-boosting measure.

Sons of This Place

Mon, 26 May 2008 05:05:09 +0000

‘Let this of you be said: that you who live are worthy of the dead.’

University-as-Factory: Taylorism and Fordism Redux

Sat, 17 May 2008 20:31:55 +0000

Is ‘the basement of the ivory tower’ an alma mater or an assembly line?

Bowles Hall and the Collegiate Way of Living

Sat, 10 May 2008 06:22:18 +0000

‘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 even greater advantages of membership in a large university.’

Adopt an Endangered Food Plant

Thu, 01 May 2008 20:37:30 +0000

What a perfect educational and environmental opportunity for a residential college.

The Global War on Taylorism

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:20:45 +0000

Education is not an industrial process.

A Collegiate House System for Columbia University?

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 22:55:08 +0000

‘We need some sort of mechanism for improving campus community and student life.’

More Collegiate Plans for Colorado

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:47:23 +0000

‘Guiding the construction is the idea that learning can’t be confined to lecture halls.’

Visiting Virginia’s Brown College on Monroe Hill

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:03:54 +0000

The ‘academical village’ is alive and well at Mr. Jefferson’s university.

The Regimental College

Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:38:28 +0000

‘Win your world.’

Yale Alumni Magazine Contemplates College Design

Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:55:02 +0000

New-college recommendations from alumni and friends (including me).

Every College a Farm, Every College a Manufactory

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 05:41:13 +0000

A residential college is just the kind of place to counter ‘the extinction of experience.’

Join or Die

Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:55:18 +0000

‘Let us dare to read, think, speak and write.’

Susan Painter on the Psychology of College Spaces

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:59:27 +0000

A home-away-from-home is more important than ‘luxury bricks and mortar.’

More on House Systems in Secondary Schools

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 03:47:33 +0000

‘It is a family approach where younger students look up to the older ones.’

The Time is Out of Joint

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:25:32 +0000

Occasional learning on the 50th birthday of a 200-year-old geologist.

A Residential College is a Great Household

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 01:02:08 +0000

Membership, not residence, is the key relation, but the language of membership is conspicuously absent from most of American higher education.

Sublunary Sonnets for a Dark College Night

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:18:10 +0000

Will you be teaching with-out the curriculum this evening?

Yale University Will Add Two Residential Colleges

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:16:04 +0000

It will be the first expansion of Yale’s collegiate system since the 1960s.

Ole Miss Understands Residential Colleges

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:56:50 +0000

Students need cross-sectional residential colleges, not segregated theme halls.

A Middle East Ivy League?

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:34:08 +0000

If American higher education is to be exported, let’s export the best it has to offer.

Woodrow Wilson: British Colleges, German Universities

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:25:59 +0000

‘They have never thought of the university as a community of teachers and pupils.’

New Colleges for the National University of Singapore

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:36:57 +0000

Six new residential colleges will extend the reach of the collegiate way in Asia.

The Collegiate Way Comes to Birmingham

Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:00:16 +0000

The University of Alabama at Birmingham could be a model for other public campuses.

Of Houses, History, and High Places

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:35:13 +0000

Residential colleges (and school houses) are permanent societies that grow deep roots.

A Review of the Residential College Movement in 2007

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:43:47 +0000

It’s been a good year for friends of the collegiate way of living around the world.

Facebook Fans for the Collegiate Way

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 02:43:44 +0000

Please become a ‘fan’ of the Collegiate Way’s new profile on facebook.com.

“To gather from the air a live tradition”

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:05:42 +0000

‘A British college’s annual holiday tradition contains lessons for us all, writes Robert O’Hara’ at Inside Higher Ed.

Magistri: Hodgson of Newnham and Stewart of Lowell

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:51:13 +0000

Humane profiles of the life and work of two residential college masters.

M/S Explorer, 1969–2007

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:55:43 +0000

‘And the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.’

“Against Theme Halls” in Student Affairs Leader

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:15:09 +0000

Themed housing is easy to sell, but in education what’s easy isn’t always best.

Annals of Vulgarity

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:41:42 +0000

Profiles in philanthropy: Donald Bren vs. Edward Harkness.

Clegg Recommends House Systems for All Schools

Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:40:10 +0000

The collegiate way, at the school level, is part of a major British education proposal.

Baylor University Plans its Second Residential College

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:36:07 +0000

An existing living-learning program will become Baylor’s next collegiate society.

Lehigh University Explores the Collegiate Way

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:28:02 +0000

The Morning Call reports on the establishment of South Mountain College.

CUHK to Establish Lee Woo Sing College

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:50:59 +0000

In 18 months, the Chinese University of Hong Kong has been able to obtain donations to establish five new residential colleges.

Residential Colleges Featured in Ole Miss Fundraising

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:03:28 +0000

Mississippi’s planned residential college system is part of its capital campaign.

Colleges and Construction at UC San Diego

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:07:36 +0000

Eleanor Roosevelt College hosts the Gilbane Higher Education Facilities Forum.

The Lost Colleges of Coimbra

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:47:53 +0000

The vestiges of a once-great college system in Portugal can still be seen today.

Forty Years of Residential College Life in Binghamton

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:09:36 +0000

Hinman College celebrates an important anniversary.

Talking About Residential Colleges at SMU

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:05:33 +0000

Southern Methodist University takes a look down the collegiate way.

‘A Large and Liberal Education’

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 18:29:49 +0000

Excellent essays on residential college values, from Trinity College, Melbourne.

Fairfield University Considers Residential Colleges

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:24:46 +0000

A noted Jesuit university in Connecticut contemplates the collegiate way.

Small Pirate and Lesse Greeke

Sun, 16 Sep 2007 06:18:33 +0000

If your college has no playful traditions, why would anyone want to belong to it?

Whitman College Opens at Princeton University

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:46:47 +0000

First announced in 2002, Princeton’s new college welcomes its first members.

Thawing Cold Fear in the New Year

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:11:30 +0000

‘A largess universal, like the sun / His liberal eye doth give to every one.’

The Burlington Free Press Reports on Campus Life

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:47:29 +0000

A review of recent residential trends on campus, with comments on ‘theme halls.’

“Golden lads and girls all must”

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 20:09:06 +0000

On ceremony, state funerals, history, and education.

A Cambridge College Horticultural Profile

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:24:33 +0000

‘He that delights to Plant and Set, / Makes After-Ages in his Debt.’

Duncan College to be Rice’s 11th Residential College

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:47:50 +0000

The second new college in as many years will be founded at Rice University.

A New Graduate College for the University of Otago

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 05:03:34 +0000

Abbey College on the Dunedin campus will be the university’s first graduate college.

A Collegiate House System for an Oklahoma School

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:00:18 +0000

More on the secondary-school counterpart of the residential college movement.

Faculty-in-Residence at McKendree University

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 21:29:55 +0000

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports on a good first step toward a collegiate system.

The New York Times on Residential Colleges

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:53:14 +0000

In the Education Life section, Bruce Weber reports on ‘The Residential Collage.’

Residential Colleges to Transform Ole Miss Experience

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 16:23:13 +0000

‘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 meeting other people from a wide variety of disciplines.’

Harry Potter and the Collegiate Way of Living

Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:11:07 +0000

Many people come to the residential college idea by way of the Hogwarts houses.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong and its Colleges

Mon, 16 Jul 2007 01:02:28 +0000

The new colleges at CUHK are an integral part of the university’s expansion plans.

Collegiate Summer Reading: The Cambridge Colleges

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:36:25 +0000

Take a photographic tour of one of the world’s original residential college systems.

Residential Colleges of the University of Melbourne

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:34:58 +0000

A lovely informal photo tour is available from a Melbourne employee.

On the Virtues of the Harvard House System

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 16:40:14 +0000

‘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 and philosophy that went on late into the night.’

New Colleges at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:20:33 +0000

C.W. Chu College and Wu Yee Sun College will be home to 900 students in all.

The Burden of Bad Campus Architecture

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:08:00 +0000

Residential colleges don’t require new buildings, but bad old ones can get in the way.

The Indian Collegiate Way

Mon, 21 May 2007 22:02:21 +0000

Valson Thampu is the new Principal of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi.

House Systems and Communal Dining

Sun, 20 May 2007 21:24:41 +0000

‘Ministers believe social and emotional intelligence classes will help stop children from turning into louts.’

“The beautiful and death-struck year”

Thu, 17 May 2007 19:37:12 +0000

Is your campus a warm and friendly Shropshire, or a cold London?

Restoring the Interpersonal in Higher Education

Wed, 09 May 2007 19:00:42 +0000

Newman and Buckley offer a Catholic perspective on the value of residential colleges.

The Malaysian Collegiate Way

Sun, 06 May 2007 11:05:28 +0000

Residential college life is the same (and always popular) everywhere it’s found.

An American at Cambridge

Tue, 01 May 2007 01:15:18 +0000

A sketch of Cambridge collegiate life from visiting American scholar Anthony Grafton.

Every College Needs an Auspex

Mon, 23 Apr 2007 19:00:27 +0000

Of birds and titles and liberal education. It doesn’t get any better than this.

The Question Mark Kid

Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:25:29 +0000

On crime, history, education, and understanding in university life.

Graduate Tutors for Princeton’s Residential Colleges

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 18:36:38 +0000

Graduate students in residence will enrich the life of the campus.

Ole Miss and the Collegiate Zeitgeist

Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:56:12 +0000

Residence life on American campuses has ‘come full circle.’

Residential Colleges at Fudan University?

Sun, 01 Apr 2007 23:34:44 +0000

A collegiate system is reportedly in the works for the Shanghai university.

Daily Journal Praises University of Mississippi Colleges

Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:09:26 +0000

Northeast Mississippi newspaper endorses residential college plans at Ole Miss.

“When the Classroom Meets the Dorm Room”

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:53:40 +0000

The Philadelphia Metro takes note of faculty in residence.

“What drives us closer to our Vision gets prioritized”

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:07:55 +0000

Marketing slogans and vacuous vision statements come and go, but mottos endure.

Collegiate Progress at the University of Mississippi

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 16:17:42 +0000

Three residential colleges are being planned for the Oxford campus.

Students Nudging Virginia Back to the Collegiate Way

Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:29:56 +0000

When it comes to the collegiate way of living, sometimes the students take the lead.

50th Anniversary of the Rice Residential Colleges

Thu, 15 Mar 2007 04:52:19 +0000

Celebrating half a century of collegiate life on the Houston campus.

Families Enrich the Life of Every Residential College

Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:35:53 +0000

Ustinov College at the University of Durham shows the way.

The Associated Press Reports on the Collegiate Way

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:49:47 +0000

Residential colleges and faculty in residence draw national media attention again.

Willamette University Puts Faculty in Residence

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:28:02 +0000

Kaneko Commons will include many of the elements of a residential college.

An Open Book Revolution for Higher Education

Sun, 25 Feb 2007 19:06:09 +0000

Oregon State University’s public accounting system should be a model for the world.

Catholic Residential Colleges in Secular Universities

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:45:17 +0000

A colloquium to be hosted in 2008 by St. John’s College at the University of Sydney.

“Awake ye muses nine, sing me a strain divine”

Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:20:48 +0000

‘Unwind the solemn twine, and tie my Valentine!’

House Systems in Secondary Schools

Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:53:22 +0000

The Goleta Valley Junior High School in California has created a house system.

A Window Onto Whitman College

Wed, 31 Jan 2007 17:52:24 +0000

Princeton University offers a photographic tour of its newest residential college.

House Systems and Residential College Systems

Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:50:41 +0000

Both seek to divide a large school into smaller, human-friendly components.

A Freshman Yard for Vanderbilt’s Residential Colleges

Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:51:56 +0000

Vanderbilt to open freshman Commons as the basis of its collegiate system.

Music from St. John’s College, Cambridge

Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:41:39 +0000

A performance of Duruflé’s Requiem is now available online.

Collegiate Contests and Intellectual Inquisitions

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 21:07:27 +0000

Teach everywhere, everyday, and they will learn everywhere, everyday.

A History for Trevelyan College, Durham

Thu, 21 Dec 2006 20:39:34 +0000

Susan Martin’s ‘Trevs: A Celebration of 40 Years’ has just been published.

Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge

Thu, 07 Dec 2006 15:04:34 +0000

This annual Christmas service embodies many important residential college principles.

A Residential College for the University of Monterrey

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:06:51 +0000

A second university in Mexico starts a collegiate system.

The Social Psychology of Education: Adults Matter

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 22:26:01 +0000

The more grown-ups talk to young people, the smarter the young people get.

Hogwarts U: The Collegiate Way at Inside Higher Ed

Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:10:31 +0000

‘The future of higher education may lie in the English-speaking world’s oldest model of university organization, writes Robert O’Hara.’

Uncovering Genuine Diversity

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 19:15:22 +0000

A bookshelf is the clearest window into a person’s soul.

Snapshot of a Collegiate Conversion

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:49:03 +0000

Princeton University establishes a new residential college website.

McDonalds Does Not Have a Gong

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 15:44:33 +0000

But at least one residential college dining hall does.

Avoiding Self-Parody

Sun, 15 Oct 2006 13:57:49 +0000

They’ll always make fun, but that doesn’t mean we have to provide them with material.

Student Commentary on Yale’s Collegiate Expansion

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:49:20 +0000

Well-reasoned proposals from students are always worth listening to.

Coach Odysseus

Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:39:36 +0000

An ‘image of excellence’ for college sports? Excellence in corruption and violence, says Robert O’Hara in The New Yorker.

More on Murray State’s Collegiate Anniversary

Sun, 08 Oct 2006 00:40:13 +0000

‘Mom, think Harry Potter.’

Murray State’s Residential Colleges at Ten

Thu, 05 Oct 2006 15:07:40 +0000

A collegiate system in Kentucky celebrates an anniversary.

More Good Reports from Lincoln Hall at WVU

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:25:06 +0000

West Virginia University’s first residential college keeps making news.

Princeton’s Tilghman on Residential Colleges

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:19:37 +0000

A four-year collegiate system is the university’s most important development.

Yale Considers Two More Residential Colleges

Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:28:20 +0000

Proposals to expand the undergraduate population are discussed.

Small Pirate and Lesse Greeke, Arrr

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 14:14:45 +0000

Fill your college with joy, love, laughter, and pirates (of doom).

Student Housing: Education vs. Marketing

Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:18:30 +0000

Why do some universities bother to house students at all?

Chariots of Fire: College Sports as it Should Be

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:52:22 +0000

An exemplary model of sport and collegiate charity from Cambridge University.

Students Relish Residential Colleges

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 11:46:16 +0000

More collegiate news and views from ‘The Australian.’

Tea: The Foundation of Residential College Life

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 23:54:42 +0000

Begin with tea, and everything else in residential college life will follow.

Henry to be First Master of Brooks College at Baylor

Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:27:46 +0000

Baylor University’s first residential college will open next fall.

Australian Educators Recommend the Collegiate Way

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:33:27 +0000

‘Residential college communities feature in all the finest institutions.’

Half of Top 25 Universities Have Residential Colleges

Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:15:06 +0000

And none of the bottom 50 universities in the US News rankings do.

Lincoln Hall Opens at West Virginia University

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:53:13 +0000

WVU’s Morgantown campus is home to a new residential college.

Vanderbilt Residential College System Moves Forward

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:33:01 +0000

The Nashville Business Journal reports on collegiate developments in Tennessee.

What is a Residential College?

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:48:42 +0000

Josephine Butler College at Durham gives us a good description.

Talking About Residential Colleges in the Aloha State

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:02:51 +0000

Notes from the annual meeting of the Society for College and University Planning.

Social Isolation on the Rise in America

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:16:09 +0000

Residential colleges can offer strong social networks that may be missing elsewhere.

McMurtry College to be Rice’s 10th Residential College

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:04:57 +0000

An alumnus who helped plan Rice’s collegiate system will endow its next college.

Oxford’s Last Women’s College to Admit Men

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:06:48 +0000

St. Hilda’s College at Oxford University will soon become mixed.

West Virginia University Follows the Collegiate Way

Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:17:03 +0000

Lincoln Hall will be the first residential college on WVU’s Morgantown campus.

Boston Society of Architects / SCUP Roundtable, 2006

Wed, 24 May 2006 03:36:29 +0000

Collegiate Way readers in the Boston area are cordially invited to attend.

Stanley Kunitz, 1905–2006

Tue, 16 May 2006 00:46:02 +0000

On residential college newsletters, and teaching with-out the curriculum.

Psychological Resilience and Adult Support

Wed, 03 May 2006 18:47:15 +0000

Strong adult support can cancel out the effects of ‘bad’ genes.

Collegiate Signs and Symbols at Baylor

Thu, 27 Apr 2006 17:27:02 +0000

A coat of arms is the most traditional, and the most flexible, of all college symbols.

Jane Jacobs, 1916–2006: Voice for Neighborhood Life

Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:36:05 +0000

John Ruskin has some good company today.

House Systems for Community Colleges

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 02:28:37 +0000

Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia has a collegiate house system.

Mississippi Announces Residential College Plans

Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:58:53 +0000

The first colleges will be created in the next two years, says The Daily Mississippian.

Colorado Regents Approve Collegiate Plan

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:22:46 +0000

The Daily Camera reports on CU’s first step toward a residential college system.

Cambridge College Buildings Nominated for RIBA Prize

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:43:31 +0000

Peterhouse and Girton libraries are recognized, along with extensions to Jesus College.

Southern California to Expand its Collegiate System

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:11:25 +0000

‘I’ve witnessed the dramatic increase in intellectual vitality when a faculty member is in charge of the programming for [a] residential college.’

Secrets, Buried Treasure, and Collegiate Identity

Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:01:14 +0000

‘There is a need in people to live with a secret place in their homes.’

US Schools Move to Break Up Central Administrations

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:29:54 +0000

The second important story in as many weeks on educational decentralization.

Even Vietnam is Decentralizing Higher Education

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 00:35:35 +0000

And if Vietnam is decentralizing, isn’t it time the United States did the same?

Basser College at UNSW: Hogwarts Down Under?

Sun, 05 Mar 2006 01:28:54 +0000

A Malaysian student in Sydney shows the global reach of the collegiate way of living.