Living and learning
Inside UNR’s new residence hall
The 2012-2013 resident assistants participate in summer training to prepare for the coming year.
One of the larger in-building classrooms.
A two-person bedroom in a three-bedroom, six-person dorm suite.
The lobby of the building also gives residents another place to hang out.
One of the smaller lounge areas is a place for students to work on homework.
A quiet study room provides tables where students can collaborate on group projects or work independently.
A duo sink in a dorm suite includes a recycling bin.
A living learning community, also known as an LLC, combines academics and socializing to give students a chance to make friends while focusing on school. Students who live in an LLC attend some of their classes within the same building in which they reside. UNR has had living learning communities before—usually reserved to a particular floor in a few of the residence halls—but it now has it’s own building devoted to the idea.
Known as the Nevada Living Learning Community, the new building has four classrooms and television lounges, libraries and living rooms on each floor. It can house 320 residents in its five stories, and residents living in suites with two or three bedrooms. There’s also wireless internet in each room. Students must be accepted into an LLC program in order to live in this hall. Our photographer Allison Young checked out the building to give the rest of us a peek into what an LLC looks like.
For more information, visit http://www.unr.edu/housing/on-campus-housing/residence-halls/nevadallc.
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Published on 08.23.12
