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Learning Paradigm Conference Presentation
March 15-18, 2000, San Diego, CA
 Community college faculty, staff, and administrators have long considered the enhancement of student learning through quality teaching to be the primary mission of the community college. Recognizing that even more could be done to support this strong commitment to teaching and learning, Maricopaís chancellor, in the late 1980s, started the Maricopa Community Colleges District on a journey to become a learning college.
Along the way, the district has examined many of its organizational systems and structures. Four of those are highlighted in this presentation:
- the designing of new facilities to encourage student learning;
- a new model of student services to address student learning outside of the classroom;
- the support of faculty learning through a district-wide database of teaching and learning; practices; and, finally
- the involvement of students in an innovative approach to teaching biology using modules, nanovisualization, and a scanning probe microscope.
Some lessons learned include: Transformation into a learning institution requires a holistic connection of interrelated systemic aspects of the organization, its people, structure, policies, and processes; transforming a system is not simple or rapid; and learning as a change agenda is not just an end, it is also the means to the end.
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