Ashby College Program Basics
Program Basics
The
Ashby Residential College
was created to provide a setting which encourages innovative study, small
classes, unity of academic and social experiences and close student-faculty
contacts. It is primarily a two-year program for first and second-year
students with a limited number of upperclass person participants.
Members of the program live and have classes in a coed dormitory, Mary Foust
Hall.
A full-time faculty member resides within the dorm, and faculty members
have offices in the residence hall.
Faculty members from
many different departments and schools teach in the Ashby Residential College,
and courses fulfill All-University Liberal Education Requirements for all
majors. From these class offerings students choose six to nine hours
of interdisciplinary core courses, informal seminars, community service
work, and varied types of independent study. The students’ other
classes are taken in the university outside the Ashby College.
Mary Foust Hall has wireless (and cable) internet access and a computer lab located within Mary Foust Hall provides 24-hour access to
computing for classes. Ashby Residential College
students are full members of the University and participate in the life
of the university as a whole. In addition, Ashby College offers a wide
variety of social and extracurricular opportunities sponsored by the committees
in which all ARC students participate. Activities typically include
student-faculty retreats in the mountains, Parlor Theater productions,
parties, coffeehouse sessions, and dinners for students and faculty; these
events are partially funded by student program dues. All students admitted
to the University are eligible to apply to the Ashby Residential College, and
the program is open to students from all majors and schools. Primary
qualifications for admissions are genuine interest in the Colleges program
and the potential to profit from it.
For further information
on Ashby Residential College, turn to the
Contact
Page.