Chadbourne Residence Hall & Barnard Residence Hall | 719 residents (doubles and singles; coed by wing and floor, respectively)
Sponsored by the College of Letters and Science | $250 learning community fee
Being a student on a campus as large as UW-Madison’s can be an overwhelming experience. With so many student organizations and other means of getting involved available to students, it can be difficult to decide what activities to participate in. Getting involved with the Chadbourne Residential College (CRC) can be a great alternative! This community presents you with endless opportunities to grow as a student and leader. The CRC can provide you with in-house academic resources and class sections, events featuring prominent speakers and discussions, as well as invitations to conferences and forums that will allow you to become further engaged in the community setting.
CRC is an outstanding platform that will help you develop your potential through interpersonal connections and academic and extracurricular engagement. CRC blends academics with residential hall life. You will learn as much from fellow residents as from formal academics, so we strive to offer the benefits of a small liberal arts college within our world-class research university. In fact, the CRC is committed to empowering its students to become liberally educated leaders and citizens.
Program Goals:
- Give first-year students fun and intellectually engaging opportunities to get to know sophomore, juniors, seniors, faculty, staff, and community partners
- Offer small courses and course sections in a variety of subject matters for residents to take
- Have fun and learn from each other, faculty, and staff during events in- and outside of the learning community
CRC made this campus feel a little smaller and allowed me to meet other first-year students as excited about community engagement as I am.
Natalie K., CRC Resident
Seminar
ILS 138: CRC First-Year Seminar | 1 Credit
CRC residents have the opportunity to take part in the one-credit ILS 138: CRC First-Year Seminar. This seminar is a small, discussion-based class where 8-12 students and one instructor, assisted by one former CRC resident have the opportunity to engage in discussion and critical analysis about life and learning at UW-Madison. The class can help you ease your transition into college, as it allows you to get more instructor-student interaction and more dialogue and friendship with other students than in a typical large, lecture-based class. The seminar is taught in Chadbourne Residence Hall, which helps support the integration of your social and academic life on campus.
CRC residents will also have the opportunity to engage with faculty and staff in special topics seminars. These can range from the intersection of art and activism to courses focused on residents getting out into the greater Madison community and doing volunteer work. These topics change on a regular basis but are all designed to get our residents connected to faculty, staff, and each other.
Programs and Activities
The CRC Common Read is one of the first opportunities each fall for our entire community to have a shared intellectual experience. The programs and events associated with our book serve as catalysts for us to experience interdisciplinary scholarship and community engagement as an integral part of CRC and the UW.
CRC also has a variety of Signature Programs that are offered year-round. Some of these include academic advising, the CRC Olympics, discussion and community forums, interest groups, common reads, and Late Night Breakfast once per semester during finals week.
