With global warming and energy among the most critical issues facing us, sustainability efforts
are receiving attention at campuses across the nation. Washington Center's
Curriculum for the Bioregion
initiative is taking this focus one step further in Washington state--into the classroom. Sustainability
offers unique opportunities for faculty to create theme-based curriculum and design integrative assignments.
The Curriculum for the Bioregion
website includes a rich library of curricular resources and information about sustainability.
by Emily Lardner and Gillies Malnarich
This Change magazine article describes a significant shift in emphasis in learning community practice over the past decade: from a focus on models and organizational structures to a focus on intentionally designed integrative learning for students.
Campus applications for the National Summer Institute on Learning Communities in 2004 are compared with those from 2008, and three trends are noted: more campuses are using data to make decisions about instructional programs; more campuses are explicitly focusing on increasing student engagement; and more campuses are connecting their desire to implement learning community programs with their vision of the kind of learning experiences they want students to have.
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