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cluster college
noun
a small residential college affiliated with a university but semi-independent and specializing in one field of study.
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One approach is the "cluster" college patterned after Oxbridge colleges—autonomous units linked for services but with their own special areas of study.
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Most major universities are working on ways to create those neighborhoods, such as "the cluster college" pattern of California's Santa Cruz campus, the "living-learning" units at Michigan State, and Meyerson's attempt to create "centers of identification" at Buffalo.
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