Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities is the long awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking book Creating Learning Communities. The authors continue their exploration of the concept of learning communities as an innovation in undergraduate curricular instruction that allow students to actively participate in their own education, and deepen and diversify their college experience. Jodi Levine Laufgraben and Nancy S. Shapiro address a wide range of topics such as campus culture for sustaining learning communities, learning communities and the curriculum, pedagogies, and faculty development.
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Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities is the long awaited follow-up to the groundbreaking book Creating Learning Communities. The authors continue their exploration of the concept of learning communities as an innovation in undergraduate curricular instruction that allow students to actively participate in their own education, and deepen and diversify their college experience. Jodi Levine Laufgraben and Nancy S. Shapiro address a wide range of topics such as campus culture for sustaining learning communities, learning communities and the curriculum, pedagogies, and faculty development.
“Learning communities have come of age. With their first volume Creating Learning Communities as a foundation, Laufgraben and Shapiro show how this important movement has become powerfully woven with other strands of undergraduate reform including diversity, assessment, and new forms of pedagogy. Together the two books are an unbeatable combination.”
--Peter T. Ewell, vice president, National Center for Higher Education Management Systems
“Drawing on the authors’ rich experience with learning communities in every sector of higher education, Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities is a must-read for faculty and academic administrators committed to using learning communities as a strategy for achieving deep, lasting, relevant, and transformative student learning experiences!”
--Louis S. Albert, president, West Campus-Pima Community College
“Chock-full of practical ideas, useful checklists and tables, and institutional case studies, this is a must-read for learning community directors, teachers, and anyone else wanting to improve college teaching and learning.”
--Mary Stuart Hunter, director, National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina
About the Author
Jodi Levine Laufgraben, formerly director of First-Year programs and the assistant vice provost for University Studies, is associate vice provost and director of Periodic Program Review at Temple University, Philadelphia.
Nancy S. Shapiro, founding director of the College Park Scholars Program, is the associate vice chancellor for Academic Affairs, at the University System of Maryland.
They are the coauthors of Creating Learning Communities.
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Learning community programs have steadily increased in number as more institutions have recognized learning communities as effective structures for promoting curricular coherence, deeper learning, and community among students and teachers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
faculty development events, curricular learning communities, national learning communities, learning communities practitioners, learning community program, implementing learning communities, learning communities program, sustaining learning communities, learning communities faculty, residential learning communities, smaller learning communities, faculty development activities, learning community models, learning communities students, learning communities teachers, reflective interviews, freshman interest groups, creating learning communities, student affairs staff, curricular planning, curricular integration, teaching teams, community curriculum, faculty handbook, freshman seminar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Temple University, Unit One, College Park Scholars, University of Maryland, Department of Education, Evergreen State College, Snapshots of Successful Programs, African American, Levine Laufgraben, New Century College, Syracuse University, Worst Case Scenario University, Senior Inquiry, United States, University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, New Student House, Wagner College, History of Psychology, Lawrence University, Pew Charitable Trusts, Using Student Teams, Management Learning Community, Middle States Commission New!
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Learning community programs have steadily increased in number as more institutions have recognized learning communities as effective structures for promoting curricular coherence, deeper learning, and community among students and teachers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
faculty development events, curricular learning communities, national learning communities, learning communities practitioners, learning community program, implementing learning communities, learning communities program, sustaining learning communities, learning communities faculty, residential learning communities, smaller learning communities, faculty development activities, learning community models, learning communities students, learning communities teachers, reflective interviews, freshman interest groups, creating learning communities, student affairs staff, curricular planning, curricular integration, teaching teams, community curriculum, faculty handbook, freshman seminar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Temple University, Unit One, College Park Scholars, University of Maryland, Department of Education, Evergreen State College, Snapshots of Successful Programs, African American, Levine Laufgraben, New Century College, Syracuse University, Worst Case Scenario University, Senior Inquiry, United States, University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, New Student House, Wagner College, History of Psychology, Lawrence University, Pew Charitable Trusts, Using Student Teams, Management Learning Community, Middle States Commission New!
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