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- A Collegiate House System for Columbia University?
(28 April 2008)
‘We need some sort of mechanism for improving campus community and student life.’
- More on House Systems in Secondary Schools
(3 March 2008)
‘It is a family approach where younger students look up to the older ones.’
- Of Houses, History, and High Places
(16 January 2008)
Residential colleges (and school houses) are permanent societies that grow deep roots.
- Clegg Recommends House Systems for All Schools
(9 November 2007)
The collegiate way, at the school level, is part of a major British education proposal.
- A Collegiate House System for an Oklahoma School
(11 August 2007)
More on the secondary-school counterpart of the residential college movement.
- Harry Potter and the Collegiate Way of Living
(20 July 2007)
Many people come to the residential college idea by way of the Hogwarts houses.
- On the Virtues of the Harvard House System
(6 June 2007)
‘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.’
- House Systems and Communal Dining
(20 May 2007)
‘Ministers believe social and emotional intelligence classes will help stop children from turning into louts.’
- House Systems in Secondary Schools
(7 February 2007)
The Goleta Valley Junior High School in California has created a house system.
- House Systems and Residential College Systems
(10 January 2007)
Both seek to divide a large school into smaller, human-friendly components.
- House Systems for Community Colleges
(18 April 2006)
Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in St. Lucia has a collegiate house system.
- Harvard Residential College Proposals from Years Past
(20 June 2004)
Frank Bolles and Abbott Lawrence Lowell on the origin of the House System.
- Collegiate History: Lowell and the Harvard Houses
(1 August 2002)
Henry Yeomans recounts the origins of the first American residential college system.
- Messiah College Alumni Propose a House System
(15 July 2002)
Graduates of a Pennsylvania liberal arts college recommend the collegiate way.
- Historic Lessons: Creating a Residential College System
(14 June 2002)
Samuel Eliot Morison on Lowell, Harkness, and the origin of the Harvard house system.