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Article: West Virginia University: Lincoln Hall.(SENSE of PLACE)
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- University Business
- Article date:
- August 1, 2006
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ENHANCED OPPORTUNITIES for personal growth and intellectual development are what students residing in West Virginia 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 to interact with students.
* CHALLENGES: While WVU 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 ...