Residential Colleges

Adding to the Classroom Experience

Alison Schaffer, Environmental College

Bucknell’s Residential Colleges offers six living and learning environments that combine classroom and co-curricular activities — arts, environment, global, humanities, social justice, and society and technology. First-year students can take a class and discuss what they’ve learned with other students in the college. Students with similar interests join in programs and social activities that add to their classroom learning.

Each college has two faculty members, called Senior Fellows, who participate actively in the college program. Upperclass students (Junior Fellows) live on the halls with members of the residential colleges and help plan activities.

Upperclass students can join the Humanities Scholars Program or the Bucknell Program in Justice and Social Change to continue the Residential College experience.