Session 4B Summary
Thanks to Dona Cady of MCC for submitting the following summary of the MCC Summer Institute session 4B, Learning Communities and General Educational Reform.
Judith Kamber and Jack Mino held a spirited round-table discussion centered around Barbara Leigh Smith's article "The Challenge of Learning Communities as a Growing National Movement." The session covered the challenges of student learning, faculty development, diversity, institutional change, and the ultimate purpose of learning communities. Judith and Jack stressed that through the initial enthusiasm of partnered faculty to the institutional reality of nuts and bolts teaching, learning communities provide a worthwhile and innovative model for student centered learning across the curriculum.