West Virginia University: Lincoln Hall.ENHANCED OPPORTUNITIES for personal growth and intellectual development are what students residing in West Virginia West Virginia, E central state of the United States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland (N), Virginia (E and S), and Kentucky and, across the Ohio R., Ohio (W). Facts and Figures Area, 24,181 sq mi (62,629 sq km). Pop. University's new residence hall will get. * FUNCTION: A residential college housing 350 students and a faculty member and his family, with 11 faculty fellows (including the resident faculty member) teaching freshmen seminars and 25 "associate members" from the community dropping in Dropping in is a skateboarding trick with which a skateboarder can start skating a half-pipe by dropping into it from the coping instead of starting from the bottom and pumping gradually for more speed. to interact with students. * CHALLENGES: While WVU WVU West Virginia University WVU Love You has had a successful residential faculty leader program in its 11 freshmen dorms for a decade, each residential faculty member actually lives next to a dorm, not within it. Officials felt they could evolve that program even further, not only by designing an apartment for the faculty leader in the residence hall, but also by adding the faculty fellows and community volunteers, explains Dean of Students David Stewart David Stewart may be:
n. 1. a. A section formed by a plane cutting through an object, usually at right angles to an axis. b. A piece so cut or a graphic representation of such a piece. 2. of students and faculty to develop close academic and personal connections. * SOLUTION: The co-ed, newly constructed hall features suites with four students each (80 percent freshmen but 20 percent upperclassmen), a three-bedroom apartment for the resident faculty member, a library, a common room, and a lounge on each of the four floors. A multimedia theater (seating about 50) will be used for performances, to show movies, and for the freshmen seminars. The faculty fellows will teach on topics of their choice that will substitute for a required orientation course Noun 1. orientation course - a course introducing a new situation or environment orientation course, course of instruction, course of study, class - education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings; "he took a course in basket weaving"; "flirting is not for first-year students. Community members, including a Methodist pastor, will explore mental and physical health-related issues, financial management, civic leadership, and local art and music with students. Residents will help develop the hall's outdoor gardens. "Students will be within an atmosphere and culture that will encourage them to do things they couldn't do in a larger university setting," Stewart says. * PROJECT COST: $14.5 million * COMPLETED: July 2006 * ARCHITECT: American Campus Communities--M.E. |
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