Building Communities of Active Learners

Southwest Regional Learning Communities Conference
February

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COMBINED SESSION:
Living and Learning Communities
FACILITATOR: Linda Sullivan, Arizona State University

Housing Proximity and Course Co-enrollment: A Simple Recipe to Help Academic Success
Washington State University
Al Jamison, Randy Jorgensen, David Escobar

Purpose: sharing of an inexpensive variation of a residential Freshman Interest Group (FIG) approach. Objectives: provide a brief history of living learning communities attempted at WSU, describe the creation of the Teniwe program (Teniwe is Nez Perce for "talk"), lay out the timeline for program development, describe the assessment of program impact, and outline the issues and lessons learned to date. Target Audience: Student Affairs administrators & Residence Life/Housing staff interested in an approach to Living Learning Communities not requiring extensive institutional or faculty support. Freshman Teniwe clusters are a residential FIG approach that does not include the expense of a linking freshman seminar nor faculty involvement incentives. Evidence will be given on the merits of simply using housing proximity assignments with co-enrollment in classes to help new freshmen succeed academically. The issues encountered, methods used, and lessons learned building this program will be shared.
    contact information:ajamison@wsu.edu

NOTE: this session is combined with the following session

Living Honors: The Academic, the Social, and the Environmental
Arizona State University
Ted Humphrey, Janet M. Burke

The Barrett Honors College at ASU has evolved over its first decade into a holistic living-learning community that implements numerous strategies to promote high aspirations and achievement among a self-identifying, but highly select cohort of undergraduates. Emphasizing the four-year experience, the services the college provides include residential facilities and programming for up to 850 students, internships, honors study abroad, peer academic advisement that uses an education planner to assist students who tend to pursue several interests simultaneously, and preparation for nationally competed fellowships. All of these programs exist within the context of a rigorous academic experience, the nucleus of which is an intense freshman seminar that establishes the culture of honors education. The presenters and their students will discuss the college's choice of specific strategies to include among its programs and assess their relative contribution to student success.
    contact information:ted.humphrey@asu.edu