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Learning Community Options
Becoming a part of such a large community as the University of Massachusetts in Amherst can be very overwhelming for first-year students. For this reason, the Isenberg School of Management offers oportunities for its students to become a part of a smaller, more close-knit group with whom they would live and take some of the same classes.

Isenberg Fellows Residential Academic Program (RAP)
The Isenberg Fellows RAP is divided into two different groups. Students of the Business in Society Fellows will explore how businesses operate in and impact a community. It will highlight the social responsibilities that businesses have, including ethics and community service. The other group is called the Diversity & International Business Fellows, and these students will learn about the global and diversity issues that businesses are facing today.

All of the fellows will be able to create a close relationship with a professor of the Isenberg school by taking a small one-credit seminar that focuses on the aforementioned material that their particular fellows group is about. The professor will also provide them with activities outside the classroom to help them become more acquanted with their new suroundings at the school. All of the members of each group will live in the same residence hall on campus, and they will take two of their genergal education courses with each other. Living and taking classes together will provide the opportunity for students to develop a close bond with each other that they may otherwise not have been able to at such a large university where you are always running into new people.

Isenberg Honors Residential Academic Program (RAP)
The Isenberg Honors RAP has similar features and benefits to the Fellows RAP, but is specifically geared toward students who are both a member of the Isenberg School of Management and also the Commonwealth Honors College. Students will live together with other members of the RAP and also take a year long seminar lead by the Isenberg School of Management Undergraduate Dean. This will not only provide the students with the opportunity to develop a close bond with each other by living and learning together, but it will also allow them a unique opportunity to develop a closer relationship with their Dean - another opportunity that they otherwise might not be able to have being a part of such a large university.

Both of the Isenberg Learning Community Options will help students to really feel that they are getting the best of both worlds by being part of such a large diverse community that the university offers, and also a part of a smaller community that these programs create.