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National Conference on Students in Transition

November 8, 2009, Salt Lake City
Fostering the Intellectual Development of Sophomores Through Curricular and Co-curricular Initiatives

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A Template for First-Year Seminars at IUPUI

This template gives expectations for all the first year seminars which are embedded in the learning communities.

IUPUI Connections Newsletter
Personal Development Plan

This is IUPUI’s version of the AAC&U recommendation in LEAP to provide students with a compass (Principle #2 of the principles of excellence in undergraduate education.)

Principles of Undergraduate Learning (PUL)

The PUL’s are the learning outcomes of undergraduate education at IUPUI.

Retention Data Sheets
RISE

To implement our mission, IUPUI developed goals for Excellence in Teaching and Learning; Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; and Civic Engagement. Consistent with those goals, IUPUI is challenging each student to have at least two curricular learning experiences that augment the typical curriculum and that fall within the four areas of curricular excellence that are consistent with the mission of IUPUI.

5th Annual Undergraduate Experiences Symposium

October 2, 2009, University of Colorado Denver
"Foundations of Excellence: Implementing the Path Toward Excellence for First-Year Students"

2009 Summer Academy

July 19-23, 2009
“First Year Learning Communities as Key Strategy For First-Generation Student Success” BEAMS/IHEP Handouts

National Summer Institute for Learning Communities

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | 10:45am – 12:00pm
Building Sustainable Learning Community Programs in College/University Contexts
Scott Evenbeck (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
David Schoem (University of Michigan)

“Learning communities, with their intentional focus on “learning” and on “community” are often transformative for students and for campuses. They are the context for faculty, advisors, librarians, student mentors, and others coming together from across different units on campus with a focus on the success of entering students. The “normal” rules of offering the “tried and true” general education and other courses often do not apply, and learning communities become the focus for innovation with teaching patterns and pedagogies. Since they set the stage for students’ academic careers, they are an enormously helpful context for building a culture of community centered on learning. The presentation, focusing on both residential and non-residential learning communities, will include models for such collaboration and will suggest data useful in building and assessing learning communities.

The session will also address connections with other campus initiatives, with the community, and with higher education community.

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 9:15am - 10:30am
Setting Up Learning Communities That Connect with Other High Impact Practices
Scott Evenbeck (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
Jillian Kinzie (Indiana University)

Participating in “high impact practices” identified in College Learning for the New Global Century (AAC&U, 2007) appears to benefit all students, especially those less prepared for college. Learning communities, student-faculty research, and other high-impact practices are effective because they create conditions whereby students devote more effort to their learning, interact more with faculty and peers (which exposes them to diversity), get more frequent formal and informal feedback, and practice and apply what they are learning to real-life situations. In this session, we will review the implications of this research for learning community programs from extending learning beyond the classroom to fostering partnerships that combine learning communities and other high-impact practices.

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Education on the Appalachian Trail – By Karen D. Arnold
LEAP
RISE

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Thursday, June 25, 2009 | 10:45am – 12:00pm
Assessing Learning Community Programs
Scott Evenbeck (Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis)
Rachel Singer (Kingsborough Community College)

The learning community movement has been transformative for higher education. Central to the impact of learning communities has been the tradition of reflective practitioners leading the work. This session will focus on the development of assessment plans on two- and four-year campuses including the design of assessment and embedding assessments of learning communities in a context of continuous learning and assessment on a campus. Assessment and feedback are central to the improvement of undergraduate education generally, and the session will include attention to assessment in the classroom as well as program evaluation for learning communities.

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Indiana Student Access and Success Conference

March 13, 2009 | Hosted by IUPUI
Sponsored by the Lumina Foundation for Education

The day featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Betsy Barefoot, Co-Director and Senior Scholar for the Policy Center on the First Year of College. In addition, the conference featured a host of invited concurrent sessions.

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