Editing Collegiate university (section)

{{Short description|Form of university organisation}}

A '''collegiate university''' is a [[university]] where functions are divided between a central administration and a number of constituent [[college]]s. Historically, the first collegiate university was the [[University of Paris]] and its first college was the [[Collège des Dix-Huit]]. The two principal forms are [[residential college]] universities, where the central university is responsible for teaching and colleges may deliver some teaching but are primarily residential communities, and federal universities where the central university has an administrative (and sometimes examining) role and the colleges may be residential but are primarily teaching institutions. The larger colleges or campuses of federal universities, such as [[University College London]] and [[University of California, Berkeley]], are effectively universities in their own right and often have their own [[Students' union|student union]]s.

For universities with [[residential college]]s, the principal difference between these and non-collegiate halls of residence (or dormitories) is that "colleges are societies (Latin ''collegia''), not buildings".<ref name=howto>{{cite web|url=http://collegiateway.org/howto/|title=How to Build a Residential College|work=The Collegiate Way|author=Robert J. O'Hara|access-date=31 August 2017}}</ref> This is expressed in different ways in different universities; commonly students are members of a college, not residents of a college, and remain members whether they are living in the college or not,<ref>{{cite web|quote=every Durham University student belongs to a college, whether you live in college or elsewhere.|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/colleges/|title=Colleges and accommodation|publisher=Durham University|access-date=31 August 2017}}</ref> but this is not universal and the distinction may be drawn in other ways (see, e.g., the [[University of Otago]] below). Residential colleges also commonly have members drawn from the university's academic staff in order to form a whole academic community.<ref name=howto/> Students in residential colleges are often organised into a [[common room (university)|junior common room]], with postgraduate students in a [[common room (university)|middle common room]], and academic staff forming a [[common room (university)|senior common room]].