The phrase "a formal campus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a university or college environment that adheres to traditional or official standards, often in terms of architecture, decorum, or academic atmosphere.
Example: "The university is known for its beautiful architecture and well-maintained gardens, making it a formal campus that attracts many prospective students."
Alternatives: "an official campus" or "a traditional campus".
Along which lines the school occupies not a formal campus but a modest shop on busy Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury among neighborhood hairdressers, closet-size newsstands and cheap restaurants.
"If you are a highly talented student at a school where we don't have a formal campus presence," she says, "it might require a student to be a little more aggressive and creative".
You can do that within the walls of a formal campus as well, but it will take a fundamental systemic shift to uproot some very old teaching traditions and the lack of real curricula.
The goal is for participants to gain access to one another's knowledge and interests (and also to their own) and get to know one another outside of their formal campus roles.
The protesters also demanded a formal apology to the campus for recent racial incidents and urged that it "actively recruit non-athlete males of color".
This expectation of having an internship or participating in extracurricular activities in conjunction with schoolwork introduces a formal feel to the campus style.
Napoleon and his friends eventually attended a formal practice session on campus, and the coach was so impressed with their work that they all received full scholarships to join the team.
When Princeton's administrators asked her to join the advisory committee to select the minority dean, she agreed to, but only as a formal delegate of Acción Puertorriqueña, a campus organization.
"My follow-up question to that number would be how many of the campuses actually had a formal program in place?" said Alison Kiss, executive director for the Clery Center for Security on Campus.
After decades without a formal military presence on its New Haven campus, Yale University signed an agreement on Thursday to re-establish the United States Navy's R.O.T.C. program starting in fall 2012.
The in-depth review comes after the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals filed a formal complaint last fall with the Boulder campus, claiming the experiments were cruel.
