When you join the Y, you join a community organization that offers more health, more hope, more opportunity: 1  Parents find a safe, nurturing environment for their children to stay active, be engaged and learn positive values.
collegiate (comparative more collegiate, superlative most collegiate) 1  Of, or relating to a college, or college students. 2  Collegial.
A college in the US formally denotes a constituent part of a university, but in popular usage, the word college is the generic term for any post-secondary undergraduate education. Americans go to college after high school, regardless of whether the specific institution is formally a college or a university.