What is a Faculty and Professional Learning Community?
Necessary Qualities for Building Community
The FLC Program Director's and FLC Facilitator's Handbook
The Consortium: Participating Institutions, Their Communities, and Program Directors
FLCs and the Scholarship of Teaching
Recommendations for Initiating and Implementing an FLC
FLC Conferences and Institutes in Review:
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004
Application. The application for membership in a community should include a section asking about the applicant’s specific teaching needs and what experience or expertise he or she can bring to the community. These form a basis for early group interaction. The application should also have questions that elicit an applicant’s openness to new ideas. The applicant’s department chair must approve and sign off on the application.
Selection. Choose community members to create a balance across disciplines, interests, experiences, and needs; this will ensure a group with a broad and diverse background.
Two examples of applications are:
Other examples are on the FLC website. The application forms for just about every one of the 18 Miami FLCs are there.
Initial Year. The first year of your FLC Program you may wish to hand pick your FLC participants by invitation to ensure success.
This project has been supported in part by a grants from the US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) and the Ohio Board of Regents.