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These news items about residential colleges, collegiate houses, and the renewal of university life are posted for readers of the Collegiate Way website. For more about residential colleges and collegiate universities please visit the main Collegiate Way page.

The Role of Residential College Deans (in a nutshell)

— What is the role of residential college deans or senior tutors? My colleague Stephen Sykes, the principal of St. John’s College at the University of Durham, says their role is “to be fierce to the foolish and kind to the crumpled.” I couldn’t have put it better.

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