Chadbourne Residential College

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How to Join

For Students

  1. Submit your University Residence Halls contract and deposit by the due date.
  2. Select Chadbourne as your top choice when you enter your preferences online in My UW Housing.
  3. Pay the $250 Advance Payment bill in My UW Housing.
  4. We send you an email indicating that Learning Community room selection is live in My UW Housing.
  5.  Log into My UW Housing and select your room!

Financial Assistance

The program fee for the Chadbourne Residential College is $300. Based on the FAFSA you submit, you may qualify for a grant to cover some or all of the learning community fee. For consideration, please e-mail us at AssignMe@housing.wisc.edu by June 14, 2013.

For Faculty and Staff

We are always looking for lively and engaged people to join our vibrant community. Research shows that when students meet faculty and staff members outside traditional roles, they become more comfortable with informal interactions and asking for help, and this assists their learning and growth.

CRC students report that interacting with faculty and staff members in our community helps them immeasurably. "Wise adults" become mentors, allies, research role models, references, and facilitators of their intellectual development, to name a few! Since 90% of a student's time during college is spent outside the classroom, our faculty, staff, and community partners have many opportunities to stimulate and be involved richly with student development.

Our faculty and staff partners often report that CRC students are enthusiastic, motivated, and engaged learners. We have some plain old fun too. Will you join us?

Here are some ways you might engage in our community:

  • Come along on a ski trip, a visit to the American Players Theatre, or a service project
  • Join one of many book discussions (See the CRC Common Read for a start)
  • Teach a section of your course here at CRC
  • Share your story through our What Matters to Me and Why series
  • Eat your lunch with students in Rheta's, our in-house cafeteria. Check out our Food for Thought program too.
  • Hold some office hours in Rheta's!
  • Serve as a judge or "neutral party" during the CRC Olympics and other events
  • Refer your colleagues and friends who might be interested

Our faculty and staff partners have reported:

  • CRC resources helps them piloting projects/courses/and new ideas
  • Our setting makes it easy to recruit great students for research, projects, and disciplinary involvement
  • It’s rewarding to connect with 1st and 2nd year students through out-of-classroom interactions
  • Partnerships for mutually beneficial funding, grants, and research is possible
  • Involvement helps networking with faculty and staff across campus

If you’d like to receive our monthly partners email, CRC Connect, please email the CRC Assistant Director.