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Allen Hall/Unit One: A creative community in a small college environment

History of Unit One

  1. A summary description of Unit One composed Fall, 1994

  2. A historical survey: 1971-1985

  3. A "transition statement" composed inthe mid-1980s

  4. The report of the Council on Program Evaluation(COPE), 1983--A campus level evaluation committee

  5. The History of Allen Hall

Also see:

The Zen of Unit One  (pdf)
A spirited description of Unit One/Allen Hall by its Director Emeritus, Howie Schein.
Also published as Schein, H. K. (2005). The Zen of Unit One: Residential Learning Communities as a Way to Foster Liberal Learning at Large Universities. In N. Laff, (ed.), Identity and Learning in the Liberal Arts. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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