The Residential Learning Communities
International Clearinghouse
The Project
Bowling Green State University is sponsoring an international clearinghouse devoted
to collection and dissemination of information about residential learning communities.
For the purposes of this project, we define residential learning community as a residential
education unit in a college or university that is organized on the basis of an academic theme or
approach and is intended to integrate academic learning and community living. The unit may or
may not be degree granting and may involve collaboration with formal academic departments outside
the unit. It provides formal and/or informal, credit and/or noncredit learning opportunities
(courses, seminars, tutorials, firesides). Residential freshman year experience programs are
included in this definition. Participation is usually voluntary. Examples: Residential colleges
at Northwestern University; Collins LLC at Indiana University; Unit One at the University of
Illinois; Human Sexual and Gender Development LLC at SUNY-Stony Brook; Chapman Learning Community at Bowling Green State
University; Chadbourne Residential Community at the University of Wisconsin at Madison; The
College Park Scholars Program at the University of Maryland; and Residential First
Year Experiences like those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Gettysburg College
The Invitation
If you are the director of such a residential learning community and would like your community
listed in the printed and online web directories, please complete the
online form.
More than 180 residential learning communities have already submitted this information to The Residential Learning Community International Registry.
/ For more information contact
Dr. Robert Midden /
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