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Academic Initiatives

The Department of University Housing's core mission includes creation of residential communities that nurture and support resident's academic success. To us that means much more than providing residents with desks and study lounges. In fact, the Department employs a full- time Academic Initiatives Coordinator whose entire focus is to forge collaborative partnerships across interdepartmental boundaries that maximize the flow of academic resources to our large and diverse resident population.

University Housing also actively supports the exchange of ideas and perspectives generated when visiting students and scholars from around the country and the world come to stay at UGA, and when our students travel to other institutions.

Some of our most successful academic initiatives and partnerships are highlighted at the University of Georgia's Learning Communities site. Details on specific programs managed by the Department of University Housing can be found at the links below:

Academic Advising: Thousands of students per semester complete academic advising within their residence halls. Find out how you can participate in this convenient program.

Academic Enhancement: The Division of Academic Enhancement maintains a satellite office in Brumby Hall that develops and delivers academic workshops, tutoring sessions and other resident support services.

Creswell Learning Communities: Be one of a select few students to complete intensive instruction in the fields of Education, International & Global Issues, Science or Social Science!

Franklin Residential College: Faculty and students cohabitate in this learning community modeled after those found at such venerable ivy-league institutions as the University of Oxford and Yale University.

Freshman College Summer Experience: Jump start your college career through participation in this for-credit comprehensive learning experience for first-year students.

Honors Magnet Program: Live within a community of Honors students in award-winning Myers Hall.

Language Communities in French & Spanish: Immerse yourself in a community packed with events, activities and fun in the French and Spanish languages.

One World Multicultural Community: Located in Oglethorpe House, residents of this community are dedicated to learning about and celebrating multiculturalism while forging connections that stretch across traditional cultural and community boundaries.

Russell Hall Last Lecture Series: The Russell Hall Last Lecture Series was created in Spring 2003 by the Department of University Housing, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, and The Division of Academic Enhancement. The residents of Russell Hall nominate their favorite professors, and the professor with the most nominations is invited to Russell Hall to present a lecture, as if it were his or her "last lecture."

Spanish Summer Immersion Program: Participants in this intensive Spanish language community earn credit for two academic courses during the UGA Summer Through Session while living in Soule Hall.

Click here or call 706 542-7259 to contact Diana Fruth, Academic Initiatives Coordinator, for more details about any of the academic programs or partnerships in University Housing.