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hundred individuals there is more opportunity for informal interaction among
students and faculty, and for interdisciplinary teaching and scholarship. The
first universities in the United States to establish residential colleges were
Harvard and Yale in the 1930s, but more recently schools such as the
University of Virginia, Rice University, the University of California at Santa
Cruz, and Murray State University have established similar collegiate programs.
In Great Britain the collegiate model was long confined to Oxford and
Cambridge (and later Durham), but in recent years a number of other British
universities, including Lancaster, Kent, and York, have converted to a collegiate
structure. Collegiate universities are also common in Canada and Australia, and
in Mexico the University of the Americas in Puebla is in the process of
establishing a system of residential colleges.
This directory of residential college Internet sites at universities around the
world is sponsored by Cornelia Strong College, one of two residential colleges
at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Its purpose is both to
introduce their own members to the institutional tradition to which Strong
College belongs, and also to serve as a resource for persons at other institutions
that either already have or are thinking about establishing similar collegiate
programs. Any traditional residential colleges (typically four-year, non-thematic
components of larger universities, administered by faculty) that would like to
have their web sites added to this directory may contact Dr. Robert J. O'Hara,
Senior Tutor of Cornelia Strong College, 100 Foust Building, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina 27412 U.S.A.
(rj ohara®iris. uncg. edu).
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