This national conference is hosted by the Maricopa Community Colleges and Arizona State University at the request of The National Learning Communities Project, Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College. Contact your Professional Growth representative for information on how to apply for conference registration fees.
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Vincent Tinto and Dr. Barbara Leigh Smith
February 28-March 1, 2002
Tempe Mission Palms Hotel - Tempe, Arizona
Conference Overview
This conference will focus on learning communities that engage students as active learners in first-year experience programs, thematically linked and integrated courses, and residential models. Other emphases will include marketing and promotion, technology, service learning, cooperative learning, assessment, diversity issues, and troubleshooting problems.
This conference will feature two full days of activities, including concurrent sessions, panel presentations, poster sessions, and roundtable discussions. This gathering will also provide a wonderful opportunity for both beginners and veterans with learning communities to meet one another, create regional networks, and share ideas. The conference planners are scheduling special times for networking.
Conference Speakers
Vincent Tinto, Ph.D.
Dr. Vincent Tinto holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in Sociology of Education, which he received in 1971. Professor Tinto is Distinguished University Professor in the School of Education at Syracuse University; and Chair of the Higher Education Program. He has carried out research and has written extensively on higher education, particularly on student retention and the impact of learning communities on student growth and attainment. His current research focuses on the impact of learning communities on the academic achievements of first-year students in differing educational settings.
Barbara Leigh Smith, Ph.D.
Dr. Barbara Leigh Smith is currently co-director (along with Dr. Jean MacGregor) of the Pew Charitable Trusts' National Learning Communities Project. She founded the Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education and has long standing interests in learning communities, interdisciplinary education, collaborative learning, and institutional change. Smith is the co-author of many books and articles, most recently Reinventing Ourselves (with John McCann, 2001), and "The Challenges of Learning Communities as a Growing National Movement" (2001).
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu/
For more information, see the conference web site:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/events/lcc02/
To register and/or submit a poster session proposal see:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/events/lcc02/reg.html
To submit a concurrent session proposal see:
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/events/lcc02/call.php
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