Editing College (section)

====Residential colleges====
[[File:Scripps College for Women-9.jpg|right|thumb|[[Scripps College]] ]]
Some American universities, such as [[Princeton University|Princeton]], [[Rice University|Rice]], and [[Yale University|Yale]] have established [[residential college]]s (sometimes, as at [[Harvard University|Harvard]], the first to establish such a system in the 1930s, known as houses) along the lines of Oxford or Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://collegiateway.org/reading/morison-1936/|title=Samuel Eliot Morison on the Harvard Houses|work=The Collegiate Way|author=Robert J. O'Hara|access-date=17 January 2017|archive-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026160736/http://collegiateway.org/reading/morison-1936/|url-status=live}}</ref> Unlike the Oxbridge colleges, but similarly to [[Durham University|Durham]], these residential colleges are not autonomous legal entities nor are they typically much involved in education itself, being primarily concerned with room, board, and social life.<ref>{{cite web|title=Collegiate Developments at Durham and Princeton|url=http://collegiateway.org/news/2002-durham-princeton|quote=The University of Durham is the third oldest collegiate university in Great Britain, and most of Durham's residential colleges are creatures of the central university rather than legally independent corporations. In this respect, the Durham colleges are closer in structure to the residential colleges that have been established in the United States and elsewhere in recent years than are the independent corporations of Oxford and Cambridge.|date=8 October 2002|work=The Collegiate Way|author=Robert J. O'Hara|access-date=17 January 2017|archive-date=10 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170110041835/http://collegiateway.org/news/2002-durham-princeton|url-status=live}}</ref> At the [[University of Michigan]], [[University of California, San Diego]] and the [[University of California, Santa Cruz]], each residential college teaches its own core writing courses and has its own distinctive set of graduation requirements.

Many American universities have placed increased emphasis on their residential colleges in recent years. This is exemplified by the creation of new colleges at [[Ivy League]] schools such as [[Yale University]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://newresidentialcolleges.yale.edu/|title=The New Residential Colleges|website=Yale University|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506115030/http://newresidentialcolleges.yale.edu/ |archive-date=6 May 2016}}</ref> and [[Princeton University]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/main/campuslife/housingdining/colleges/|title=Housing & Dining|website=Princeton University|url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160511175218/http://www.princeton.edu/main/campuslife/housingdining/colleges/ |archive-date=11 May 2016}}</ref> and efforts to strengthen the contribution of the residential colleges to student education, including through a 2016 taskforce at Princeton on residential colleges.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://strategicplan.princeton.edu/taskforces/rescollege|title=Task Force on the Residential College Model |website = Planning for Princeton's Future|publisher =Princeton University|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604070558/http://www.princeton.edu/strategicplan/taskforces/rescollege/|archive-date=4 June 2016}}</ref>