In 1990, it accepted for the first time students who wanted the residential experience.

In 1996, the college was one of the first in the nation to offer an on-campus residential educational experience for single mothers with children.

They found that field social workers were on the whole critical of the residential experience.

"Our niche is that this is a residential experience," she said.

These three modules provide residential experience for students whose needs will vary greatly.

Students will be asked to review and record their feelings and reactions to the residential experience.

The result is that colleges are looking for ways to increase the appeal of their residential experience.

With a rising proportion of students seeking a residential experience, the university, which now sleeps 3,000, wants to more than double that number.

And for residents, golf won't "take over the residential experience."

Discovery - a residential experience focussing on the environment, development or peace.