Decentralizing Big Universities

Many universities are trying to counteract impersonal campuses through the establishment of decentralized residential colleges.

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March 9, 2003, 9:00 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Universities around the country are establishing decentralized, Oxford/Cambridge-style residential colleges to counteract the trend toward massification and bureaucratization that has been prevalent for the last 40 years. (This story is also available on the author's site: http://www.bestfouryears.com/residentialcolleges.htm ).

Thanks to Robert J. O'Hara

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