August 11, 2015Recommendations for new research on residential colleges, learning communities, and other academic-residential partnershipsby Peter Felten, Jon Dooley, and Jessie L. MooreIn July 2015, Elon’s Center for Engaged Learning hosted a three-day think tank on residential learning communities that brought together a dozen scholars and practitioners (participants are listed below). Learning communities have been defined in a wide variety of ways…