Residential Curriculum

The residential curriculum is the guiding philosophy for events, activities, and learning opportunities facilitated in the residence halls at Xavier. The residential curriculum was developed to encourage Xavier students who live on campus to seek and find the most meaningful experience they can get while living at Xavier.

The curriculum guides how Residence Life (including student Resident Assistants, professional-level Hall Directors, and central team members) approach the opportunities for personal growth that are provided to students in an on-campus living experience, while ensuring we create a memorable and fun experience for students that they can only find at Xavier.

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Residence Life Learning Outcomes

  

Curriculum Foundations  

 

What are Blob Bucks?

 

What is a residential curriculum?

A residential curriculum (or, more generally, curricular approach) is a systemic way to be more purposeful and strategic about how educators who work with students beyond the classroom can best facilitate student learning as an outcome of the student experience.² By implementing a residential curriculum at Xavier, we are taking an intentional approach to activities, programming, learning opportunities outside of the classroom that create opportunities for engagement that are more meaningful, memorable, and valuable to students.

 

Staff Contact

 

 Check out Anderson's discussion of MAGIS on Xavier's Extended Family Podcast below:

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¹ MAGIS is currently implemented in halls with predominantly first-year students: Brockman, Buenger, Husman and Kuhlman. Upper-class halls and areas (Justice and Apartments) will begin implementation of MAGIS in Fall 2025.

² Kerr, K. G., Edwards, K. E., Tweedy, J., Lichterman, H. L., & Knerr, A. R. (2020). The curricular approach to student affairs: A revolutionary shift for learning beyond the classroom. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.