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Ashby Residential College:
Arts, Design, & Media
This living-learning community is open to all majors and will be of particular interest to students who would like to explore ways to interrogate digital and non-digital life experiences through programming to help students integrate and apply art, design and media to societal challenges locally and globally. The Ashby community uses this theme as a lens to engage with issues of inclusivity, ethics, and social impact while supporting a creative vision of students’ personal, academic, and professional journeys.
Ashby Residential College (located in Mary Foust Hall), founded in 1970, cherishes its history on UNCG’s campus and its many traditions, including producing an annual haunted house for the community. Located on College Avenue, the residential hall boasts an in-residence classroom, large formal parlor, high ceilings, angled stairwells, and gabled windows. With on-site advisors, and hosting a range of events and activities, it is a traditional hall-style residence with double-occupancy.
IS A RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE
RIGHT FOR YOU?
- Do you love to learn, especially when it challenges what you already know?
- Are you curious about other people, who they are, what they believe, and why they believe it?
- Do you want to explore your interests and ambitions with other students and faculty?
- Do you value having a close relationship with your classmates and professors?
- Are you interested in examining local and global issues, working to understand them, and proposing solutions for a better world?
- Do you want to be surrounded by a diverse and inclusive program that values academic excellence, service, leadership, creativity, and community?
- Do you want to engage with people who are there to support you as a person and a student?
STRONG RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE:
Environmental & Social Sustainability
This living-learning community is open to all majors and will be of particular interest to students who would like to explore issues surrounding sustainability, broadly defined. The Strong community strives to help students make connections to the larger, global landscape by focusing on ways of creating a sustainable social, economic, aesthetic, and environmental future through co-curricular programming, reflection, and learning—an approach that threads observation and analysis into intentional connections between education and social responsibility.
Strong Residential College (located in Guilford Hall) has a number of traditional programs focusing on building community through weekly teas, a “Sustainability Dinner,” and several other student-driven activities. Centrally located on College Avenue, the residential hall boasts a large formal parlor, recently renovated kitchen and bathrooms, high ceilings, gabled windows, and a beautiful view overlooking a paved courtyard. Students in Strong can also take classes in the classroom in the residence hall. With on-site advisors, and hosting a range of events and activities, it is a traditional hall-style residence with double-occupancy.
North Spencer residential College:
Community Health, Medicine, & Wellness
This living-learning community is open to all majors and will be of particular interest to students who would like to explore issues in medicine, nursing, public health, personal health, wellness, and social policy locally and in other areas of the world. The North Spencer community strives to help students make connections through co-curricular programming, reflection, and shared learning as they relate to broader social impact as part of students’ personal, academic, and professional journeys.
North Spencer Residential College is the original Honors residence hall and offers an extraordinary space for nearly 200 Honors students. North Spencer offers large rooms that are air-conditioned and typically have a sink. It also offers a classroom equipped with global teleconferencing technology, a large parlor for visiting with other students. With on-site Honors advisors, and hosting a range of events and activities, North Spencer is centrally located on campus, next to the dining hall.
South Spencer Residential College:
Law & Social Justice
This living-learning community is open to all majors and will be of particular interest to students who would like to explore issues of power, privilege, oppression, and intersectionality as part of their personal, academic, and professional journeys. Students in South Spencer engage in critical community building in the pursuit of understanding how these issues impact local, national, and international legislation, activism, and policy-making.
South Spencer Residential College joined North Spencer and Gray Hall in Fall 2015 as the third living space for Honors College students and is home to approximately 100 students. The Hall is attached to North Spencer and both offer similar room amenities. It has a parlor on the first floor, a large game room with television on the ground floor, a computer lab, and offices for Honors College staff. With on-site Honors advisors, and hosting a range of events and activities, South Spencer is centrally located on campus, next to the Jackson Library.
Want more info: Contact Dr. Angela Bolte, akbolte@uncg.edu