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Building Communities of Active Learners
Southwest Regional Learning Communities Conference
February
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COMBINED SESSION:
FACILITATOR: Margaret Hogan, Maricopa Community Colleges
University of Minnesota
Scott Gilbert
In 1993, the University of Minnesota launched its Residential College program. Designed to encourage more engagement with academic material, it was intended to cultivate intellectual and social growth through conversations between students and faculty. Over the past eight years, the Residential College has taken many forms, from faculty academic advisors to a core course to a public-private partnership in order to offer students better housing. We will share with you what has and what has not worked, and where we are focusing our resources. This presentation will discuss what we have learned and the progress that we have made, and what we would recommend to other institutions that are looking to start similar initiatives. Come learn how a Residential College can create the feeling of a smaller private college atmosphere within the context of a large research university.
contact information:gilbe062@umn.edu NOTE: this session is combined with the following session
Texas A&M-Commerce
William E. Thompson , Rick Miller
We began Mayo College (named after the university's founder, William Mayo), a residential learning community, in the fall of 2000 with 83 first-time, full-time students. We retained 81 of those students from Fall to Spring (97.6%) and 67 of them from Fall 2000 to Fall 2001 (80.7%). This fall, in its second year, we have 156 first-time, full-time students enrolled. Students live on the same floor of a residence hall with other students who are enrolled in a cluster of three courses: a Freshman Success Seminar and two general education required courses. In addition to common living quarters and a common class schedule, each student is assigned a peer mentor (a sophomore who went through the program last year) and a faculty mentor. This presentation will discuss the process and procedures we went through to establish the program as well as some of the potential pitfalls to try to avoid. We will discuss the role of the President, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Academic Deans, Faculty, Student Affairs personnel, Housing people, and others who have been integrally involved in making this program a success.
contact information:wt@tamu-commerce.edu
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