Tag: Living Learning Community

  • Comets on the quest for camaraderie

    Comets on the quest for camaraderie

    Twice a month, students gather to play a post-apocalyptic UTD-themed tabletop game their peers designed to embrace the student culture at the university and develop essential skills. Comet World is a Dungeons & Dragons-style tabletop game the Living Learning Community designed, in which the board is an entirely UTD-themed fantasy world. D&D is a game…

  • Program provides community for first-gen students

    Program provides community for first-gen students

    UTD will add one more living space to its current eight academically-focused areas. Rather than have a major-specific focus, however, this living space is designed for students whose parents did not complete a four-year college program in the United States. The university administration hired Mary Jane Suarez Partain in 2006 to launch Living Learning Communities,…

  • New LLC to focus on women in STEAM

    New LLC to focus on women in STEAM

    To advance female representation in the STEAM fields and help foster connections among those female students, University Housing is piloting a program in fall 2017 called Women in STEAM, which will be a new Living Learning Community on campus. From the LLC website, “Living Learning Communities are groups of freshman students who share academic goals…