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What is a Faculty and Professional Learning Community?

Necessary Qualities for Building Community

The FLC Program Director's and FLC Facilitator's Handbook

30 Components of FLCs

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

Partnerships / Resources

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10. Partnerships

Bridging: The Powerful Partnerships Formed By Faculty Learning Communities

With deans and chairs who have been community members

• Currently, at Miami, 1 of 6 academic deans and 21 of 45 department chairs

With the student affairs division

• Student life
• Service learning
• Living learning communities (Residence Life)
• Developing an inclusive classroom climate

With the University Libraries

• Faculty Learning Community for Information Literacy (3 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 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.