There are five Residential Learning Communities at the University of Vermont. Together with the Honors College, the others include the Global Village, the Green House, Health and Wellness, and the Living/Learning Center, which, built in 1973, is the original residential community on campus.
Each community is designed to achieve the same goals, for one, to make it possible for students who share common interests and ideals to live together in an environment where each student can feel part of a true community; and two, to engage the whole student by joining together in one place the intellectual, ethical, and social aspects of college life. In addition, each residential community works diligently to 'triangulate' the opportunity it offers, by linking each of its students not only to his or her particular learning community but to the larger world beyond that of the campus. In this way, students, faculty, and staff are given the opportunity to interact outside the classroom, the lab, or the office, joining campus learning with life experiences to thereby encourage the pursuit of knowledge as a lifetime activity.
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