Moving from "I" to "We": One Campus' Learning Community Adventure

9-9:50 a.m.

Location: Cassatt B

Type: Informative/panel

Audience: Linked Courses

Presenters: Kathleen Klompien, Susan Lefevre, and Emily Spitler-Lawson, California State University Channel Islands

What happens when a university president makes a mandate that impacts everyone who teaches first year students? For some faculty this change played to their strengths and areas of interest. For others, the change dismantled a much-loved home. And what is the program director to do? Last year, at CSU Channel Islands, the president mandated that all first-year students enroll in a first-year learning community. At the same time, he and the provost determined that the existing first year seminar be eliminated. This interactive session will explore how each of us responded to the LC mandate on our campus. The perspectives included here are from: a long-term LC faculty member/faculty co-lead, a faculty member who was able to propose a community of her choice, her partner in the new community, and the faculty director of the program.