What is a Learning Community?
 

"Learning Communities have arrived as a national movement: Curricular learning communities are the purposeful restructuring of an undergraduate curriculum to thematically link or cluster courses and to enroll a common group of students in these courses." 

J. MacGregor & B.L. Smith

       About Campus: Enriching the Student Learning Experience

                                                                       May-June 2005

A learning community is a group of people who share common values and beliefs and are actively engaged in learning together from each other.
                                                             courtesy of wikipedia.com
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Why apply for a Learning Community?

In a variety of institutional settings and in a number of forms, learning communities have been shown to increase student retention and academic achievement, increase student involvement and motivation, improve students time to degree completion, and enhance student intellectual development.
 
Students involved in learning communities become more intellectually mature and responsible for their own learning and develop the capacity to care about the learning of their peers.

Learning Communities National Resource Center

http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/lcfaq.htm#23

For more information on Learning Communities, contact Autumn Brinegar at 974-6903.