UD is building a new $21 million three-wing brick residence hall on Founders Field.  The Marianist Hall will house 400 first- and second-year students and includes an integrated learning space where faculty and students will come together to collaborate on innovative curricula, campus ministry offices, bookstore, post office, food emporium and a free-standing chapel.  

The learning space in the new residence hall is part of the on-going development of the University of Dayton as a Learning Village.  The College has played a central role in designing this space.  The College recognizes that "if we truly believe in the power of liberal education to make a difference, we must model the vital connection between theory and practice in our daily lives.  A college campus should be a place where we learn through daily practice how to connect living and learning, how to connect the mind and the heart and how to apply the richness of liberal education to make the mundane and the dramatic decisions that shape the ‘art of daily living.’  The false dichotomy must be broken between the residence hall and the classroom.  Our vision for the future is to design living space to promote learning and to shape the learning experience to make a difference in how we live."

The space in the new residence will join the Learning Teaching Center and ArtStreet as spaces that have been specifically designed to help us realize this vision.

The Core Program has for many years developed innovations that have helped UD shape its general education curriculum, connecting the mind and the heart.  Because of this history, the Core Program has been invited to help design the learning space and to be the first to use the space. The Program will use the flexible learning space to develop a curriculum that moves beyond the strictures of seat-time and disciplinary boundaries.