National Summer Institute

June 24 - June 28, 2008
The Evergreen State College,
Olympia, Washington

The Institute is designed to help campuses start or strengthen learning community programs. It draws on the wisdom of experienced learning community practitioners as well as the growing research on what makes learning communities an effective institutional change strategy aimed at improving student learning, persistence, and graduation.

Colleges and universities selected for the Institute are matched with resource faculty who are leaders in learning community work and other reform movements in higher education. Teams attend workshops designed around practical problems, consult with resource faculty, and create a campus action plan for learning community development.

The 2008 National Summer Institute on Learning Communities will be held in partnership with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Faculty Development Network.

Percell Hobbs, Dena Shonts, Elvira Johnson, Steve Gore, James Bazan