10. Partnerships
Bridging: The Powerful Partnerships Formed By Faculty Learning Communities
As consultants for instructors and departments at your institution, perhaps as an associate with your teaching and learning center
- Once FLC participants have completed their FLC year, they have probably acquired the expertise to become a consultant on the topic of the FLC. The teaching and learning center could include these FLC members when instructors and departments have questions related to that FLC topic. Examples at Miami have included assessment, inclusion, and technology topics.
With department chairs who have been community members
- Currently, at Miami, 25 of 48 department chairs
With the student affairs division
- Student life
- Service learning and civic engagement
- Living learning communities (Residence Life)
- Developing an inclusive classroom and campus climate
With the University Libraries
- Faculty Learning Community Improving Information/Research Literacy/Fluency (5 FLCs)
With accreditation efforts
- Impact of faculty development on student learning
With undergraduate students
- FLC Student associates
- Student organizations
With University Honors Program
- Faculty Learning Community on Ethics Across the Honors Curriculum
With the School of Fine Arts
- Faculty Learning Community Integrating the Arts and the Curriculum
With Information Technology Services
- Faculty Learning Community Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning
- Faculty Learning Community Developing E-Portfolios (2 FLCs)
- Faculty Learning Community Bringing Knowledge Closer Through Web Interactivity
With Liberal Education
- Faculty Learning Community on Liberal Education Departmental Assessment
- Faculty Learning Community on Assessment and the Scholarship of Teaching
- Faculty Learning Community on U.S. Cultures Course Development
With the Center for Writing Excellence
- Faculty Learning Community Teaching Writing-Enriched Courses (2 FLCs)
With Departments
- Department Chairs Learning Community: Enhancing Leadership and Productive Change (3 FLCs)
With the American Studies Program
- Faculty Learning Community: Revising the American Studies Curriculum
- Faculty Learning Community: Re-Envisioning American Studies: Civic Engagement, Digital Media, and Public Culture
With Disability Studies
- Faculty Learning Community on Developing a Disability Studies Program to Understand and Address Disabilities
With the School of Business
- Faculty Learning Community on Improving International Business Education (2 FLCs)
With the Graduate School
- Graduate Students Learning Community for Preparing Future Faculty
With a statewide organization, for example the Ohio Learning Network (OLN)
- Funded two FLCs
- Miami University is an OLN Regional Center
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.
