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Our Mission
The Office of Residence Life collaborates with other offices to facilitate students’ successful adjustment to and transitions through their collegiate experience. We try to provide a safe and supportive environment promoting academic success, personal development, involvement in campus life, and understanding of intercultural issues. We support the University’s commitment to build citizen leaders for the future.
Living Learning Communities
The mission of Living Learning Communities at Miami University is to create and extend student learning opportunities outside of the classroom that heighten student intellectual and personal growth. Living Learning Communities are purposeful attempts to integrate curricular and co-curricular experiences that complement and extend classroom learning. These communities foster faculty and resident interaction that enhances both intellectual and personal growth of the residents. Each community is built around a specific field of study or area of interest and is structured so students have a high degree of involvement in its formation.
Community
The Office of Residence Life strongly believes that the most effective way to achieve its mission is to build community. Community enables growth, learning, and self-authorship. Community promotes interaction and friendship, respect and inclusion, celebration and fun.
Ernest Boyer, in his book "Campus Life: In Search of Community," offers six principles of community.
A University community engages its members in…
| ...a purposeful community | ... a place where students, faculty, and staff share goals and collaborate for personal development, value clarification, and learning; a place where creativity and innovation are expressed. |
| ...an open community | ... a place where freedom of expression is honored and where civility is powerfully affirmed; a place that fosters dialogue and advocacy. |
| ...a just community | ... a place where the value of each person is paramount and where diversity education is pursued. |
| ...a disciplined community | ... a place where individuals accept their obligations to the group and where well-defined policies and procedures guide responsible decision-making for the common good. |
| ...a caring community | ... a place where the well-being of each member is compassionately supported and where service to others is encouraged. |
| ... a celebrative community | ... a place where the heritage of the institution is remembered and where rituals affirming both tradition and change are widely shared. |
Through on-going evaluation, the dynamic communities built by our students and staff will continue to develop and improve.
Boyer, Ernest L. (1990). Campus Life: In Search of Community. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Princeton, New Jersey.
