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How creative is your res life?

by Jeff Jackson on February 10, 2010

Loyola University Maryland will be adding additional housing communities that will provide learning around students interest. Loyola has named the new communities Mission house and Wellness House. The Greyhound reports…

Mission House is a community that strives to live out the core values of our Jesuit education. The students who live in this community will participate in “activities that will strengthen their commitment to service and spirituality.

Wellness House, a house that strives to create healthy decisions and alternatives for alcohol, and Ad Infinitum, a sophomore living community that helps sophomore navigate through their sophomore year…

This is not only a great learning opportunity for students, but for the residential staff that will be able to program around their passions. I would imagine staff retention would be higher in learning communities compared to other hall director positions. Do you know of other schools with similar learning communities?

Tagged as: Living Learning Community, Loyola University Maryland

  • http://twitter.com/chellrene chellrene

    We are trying to implement student interest floors in our halls, but we put out ads for it this year and did not get any responses/applications from students. Hopefully we can improve our marketing of this and try again next year.

  • http://gettingsocial.net/ Jeff Jackson

    That is great! what were some of your interest areas? Hopefully it will be better received next year.

  • http://twitter.com/slhealy Shannon Healy

    At my undergraduate institution they had a few themed communities. A FYE floor, a Leadership Learning Community, an International House, and then Summit – a healthy living/wellness floor. A lot of students really enjoyed them and would end up staying on campus and living there a second year, or returning as a mentor.

  • http://twitter.com/JenPaulin Jen Paulin

    We have two learning communities in our freshmen area and are actually changing the RD job description to be an RD/Coordinator type position. It is great in that for our campus it provides an RD with the opportunity to work collaboratively with faculty, staff and the community. The staff member has a lot of increased responsibility and the faculty involved seem to see him as a partner in bringing their programs into the residential community. Both communities have strong academic components (one even includes a 1 credit course). With the changing job description we'll (hopefully) be bringing more learning communities to our campus!

  • http://twitter.com/chellrene chellrene

    Well we have themed communities around campus, the floors we are trying to create would be created entirely by the students, including the interest area. We left it open to them to create a floor with an interest of their choosing, they just had to recruit at least 8 people for the floor and secure a faculty partner.

  • julieatdallas

    Seattle University has a great Living Learning Community program. http://bit.ly/dwXmgl At my current institution, we have had a lot of success with our Arts and Technology community.

  • http://twitter.com/CraigBerger Craig Berger

    Miami University's office has many Living Learning Communities. Many are well organized, incorporating relevant stakeholders from across the campus to serve on a board with the hall directors and students. Others are less supported by the campus. But overall, I think it's quite amazing to have so many communities.

    http://www.units.muohio.edu/saf/reslife/reslife…

  • http://gettingsocial.net/ Jeff Jackson

    Thanks for everyone's comments. How many of you have worked in both a LLC and regular hall? If so how do you compare your experiences?

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