Learning Communities Address the Needs for:

• Greater intellectual interaction
  • student to student
  • student to faculty
  • faculty to faculty

• Curricular coherence: reinforcement and/or integration of ideas

• Understanding issues which cross subject matter boundaries

• Ways to facilitate the move toward a richer, learning-centered environment

• Active and collaborative learning

• Exploring and understanding diverse perspectives

• Student retention and progress toward degree

• Faculty development

• Low-cost methods for doing the above

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