How to Use residential college in a Sentence

residential college

noun
  • Students may be reluctant to attend a residential college in the fall.
    — David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 26 June 2020
  • Don’t tell anyone, but many of Yale’s residential colleges are named for men who supported slavery.
    — Roger Kimball, WSJ, 29 Jan. 2020
  • Living with friends is one of the key experiences of residential colleges like Georgetown.
    — Tara Subramaniam and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 21 Mar. 2020
  • Witt is also the new head of Davenport, another of the residential colleges.
    — Christopher Hawthorne, latimes.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Most residential colleges in the United States have some sort of official process for roommate matching in place.
    — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 26 Aug. 2019
  • The residential college with the highest attendance can win a speaker and a $500 gift card to a local grocery, too.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 21 Nov. 2025
  • In addition, trustees voted to change the name of a residential college that had been named for Wilson to First College.
    — Washington Post, 27 June 2020
  • The school decided last year to remove his name from a residential college and its school of public affairs and international affairs.
    — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Students at Plymouth State come for the residential college experience, but in the pandemic some have been forced to pick up more work to help parents who lost their jobs.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • The coronavirus pandemic has sent students at residential colleges careening back to their families’ homes.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 28 Apr. 2020
  • The university decided last year to remove his name from a residential college and its school of public and international affairs.
    — Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Across the country, parks, buildings and even a residential college at Yale University have been renamed to erase connections to slavery.
    — Mark Pratt, Fox News, 19 June 2018
  • Across the country, parks, buildings, and even a residential college at Yale University have been renamed to erase connections to slavery.
    — Mark Pratt, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2018
  • In separate events four days apart last week at two residential colleges on the Coral Gables campus, someone drew Swastikas on a board outside the dorm rooms of two female students.
    — Charles Rabin, Sun-Sentinel.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • In 2017, Yale University renamed one of its residential colleges that had his name after years of debate and protests.
    — Christopher Brito, CBS News, 9 June 2020
  • Climbing walls, omelete bars, lazy rivers, condo-style dormitories—campus perks are often blamed for the rising cost of four-year, residential college in the United States.
    — Emma Whitford, Forbes, 26 Apr. 2022
  • Student residential colleges, dining halls, offices, libraries, health centers, and recreation and athletics facilities are open.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The building will also be open late to accommodate students' schedules, and provide space for programs hosted by student organizations and residential colleges.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, NOLA.com, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Her son, now a senior in high school, previously intended to apply to a four-year residential college, but after years of online and hybrid learning, feels unmotivated and disengaged from school.
    — Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
  • University officials say the aim is to give students a residential college experience that is independent but also supported.
    — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Like my fellow university presidents across the country, I have been consumed with the unprecedented task of preparing to resume residential college life this fall in the midst of a pandemic.
    — Time, 19 June 2020
  • The Greek life system at Temple is relatively small, but growing as Temple tilts toward a more residential college experience.
    — Susan Snyder, Philly.com, 2 May 2018
  • Princeton will remove President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its prestigious public policy school and a residential college.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2020
  • In June, the university’s board decided to remove Wilson’s name from the public policy school and the residential college because of his racist views and support for segregation.
    — chicagotribune.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • The largest residential college recovery program in the country is Augsburg's StepUp, which serves 85 students living together in a substance-free dorm.
    — NBC News, 29 May 2018
  • But in 2021 Princeton announced that the residential college—Princeton’s seventh—would no longer be named for Perelman because the foundation failed to make the gifts as promised.
    — William Cohan, Town & Country, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Later that month, Princeton University voted to remove Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school and a residential college.
    — Leah Asmelash and Brandon Tensley, CNN, 22 Aug. 2020
  • Princeton University is naming a residential college for alumna and major donor Mellody Hobson, the first Black woman to have that honor in the school's history.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 9 Oct. 2020
  • Princeton University removed former President Woodrow Wilson's name from its public policy school and a residential college.
    — Elizabeth Joseph and Alicia Lee, CNN, 1 July 2020
  • Princeton University will remove President Woodrow Wilson’s name from its public policy school and a residential college, the school’s president announced.
    — Fox News, 27 June 2020

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