Tweaking MCLI to Faculty Needs
Naomi O. Story, Director, MCLI

Teaching and learning as a focus has been the primary value that drives many of us each day to address educational issues and challenges. Especially with the constant changes and dynamics of the human spirit, information age, society, and economics of our times, we are always reshaping and remolding our educational and institutional boxes to meet the needs of our communities through teaching and learning.

This year, the Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI) is trying out a new process to meet the needs and interests of faculty by establishing a guest editorship for our Forum/Labyrinth. This semester's editor is Suzann Shepard, psychology faculty and coordinator of Mesa Community College's initiative to recruit and to retain women and minorities in mathematics, sciences, and engineering. Suzann has been a faculty developer from Estrella Mountain Community College Center and co-chaired several Ocotillo committees (Alternative Assessment and Integrated Learning Communities). We are excited about Suzann's leadership as guest editor for our Fall issue of our Forum/Labyrinth.

If you are interested in being a guest editor to "shepherd" an area in teaching and learning that may be of interest among your colleagues, please contact me for details: Dr. Naomi O. Story, Director, Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction, 731-8293, story.naomi.o@a1.dist.maricopa.edu.

Maricopa is beset among several major educational initiatives across our colleges. Specifically, discussion and discourse are being held among faculty groups regarding our Maricopa Learning Paradigm. That faculty drive the Maricopa Learning Paradigm is essential to every aspect of our work as educators. We hope to provide another means for discourse via the Forum/Labyrinth by soliciting any information, discussion, examples, research, opinions, etc. related to what you as educators think should be reflective of concepts underlying the Maricopa Learning Paradigm. Please send these to me at the MCLI by February 7, so that we can include them in our next issue of the Forum/Labyrinth.

Continue to have a great year teaching and learning!

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