Faculty Resources
Greetings learning community faculty and friends! This website has been created just for you. Look here for helpful resources and websites, as well as for important updates.
If you have suggestions for items to include in this website, please email your suggestions to The Orientation Office at orientation@jmu.edu.
Thank you!
Learning Community Proposal
Interested in developing a new learning community for 2007-2008? Contact Laura Haas (haaslm@jmu.edu) in The Office of Orientation at 568-8044 to discuss your ideas and learn about the learning community approval process.
National Websites
National Learning Communities Project
The Residential Learning Communities International Clearinghouse
Conferences
19th Annual International Conference on the First-Year Experience
12th Annual National Learning Communities Conference: Students at the Center
Individual Institutions
Bowling Green State University
Listservs
The Learning Communities listserv Hosted at Temple University, this listserv explore curricular learning communities (strategies that link or cluster courses). To subscribe, send an email to listserv@listserv.temple.edu. Leave the subject line blank. In the body of the message, type: subscribe learncom [your first and last name] (don't type the brackets, just type your first and last name)
Southeastern LC Network listserv To subscribe, send an email to selc-request@clio.fiu.edu with "subscribe" (without the quotation marks) in the subject line and again as the body of the message
Living Learning Community listserv Hosted at Bowling Green State University, this listserv is for individuals interested in or involved with residential learning communities. To subscribe, send an email to listproc@listproc.bgsu.edu. Leave the subject line blank and in the body of the message type: subscribe ResLearnComLLP [your first and last name] (don't type the brackets, just type your first and last name)
Assessment Resources
North Carolina State Living Learning Communities Assessment Plan
Other Resources
Living/Learning Communities: An Annotated Bibliography
National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition