At Binghamton University, we believe that you learn so much outside of the classroom that students live in residence halls called colleges. Newing College is one of those places where you not only live, but you learn. Because a large part of your growth as a college student happens outside the classroom, Professor Bill Ziegler, the Faculty Master of Newing College works to bridge your home to the academic side of campus. We like to think of Newing College as one big Learning Community. We offer sections of several University courses just for Newing College students in addition to dozens of programs offered each year by our Resident Assistants. Newing College provides many opportunities to interact with students outside the classroom including seminars by our Newing College Fellows on subjects that have included health, nutrition, Tai‐Kwon‐Do and a host of other topics. Students here feel like they are part of a small community while simultaneously enjoying everything that the University has to offer.
For an inside look at the Faculty Master of Newing College, Professor Ziegler, take a look at www.cs.binghamton.edu/~ziegler/page0004.html.j Additionally, Newing College offers three distinct Learning Communities, where students who live together (in Newing College) also learn together.
HDEV 105 – College Students in Transition. This class satisfies the GenEd “O” requirement. Students in this class will have the unique opportunity to live in the same area with their classmates and will meet in Newing College. Space for the course is limited to 20 students.
WRIT 111— Coming to Voice. This course satisfies the GenEd “J” requirement. The course is strongly recommended for all freshmen and aims at helping students develop the habits of mind necessary to succeed in future writing courses where genre and audience expectations will differ. Students in this class will all live in the Newing College community.
Each year, Binghamton University invites 40 outstanding incoming freshmen to join the Binghamton University Scholars Program, a selective all-University four-year honors program for students of exceptional merit. For the first year, all Scholars live in the Scholars Learning Community in Endicott Hall, one of four residence halls in Newing College. The Scholars program is by invitation only, and details can be found at http://scholars.binghamton.edu. All Scholars freshmen take the same section of SCHL127 Discovering the Scholar Within - Thinking Like Leaonardo daVinci.
This learning community is area wide across all of Newing College. We will be working around the theme of Sustainability, with special events and public speakers. Our residence halls are striving for gold LEED certification status, because of all our eco-friendly materials and processes. If you are interested in green living, Newing College is for you! No specific courses are offered in this Learning Community; it's just a way of life here.
