Letter to Participants

We welcome you as a participant in our fifth annual New FLC Developers' Institute, Designing, Implementing, and Leading Faculty Learning Communities: Enhancing the Teaching-Learning Culture on Your Campus. We intend to provide a knowledge and experiential foundation that will help you build a faculty learning communities program at your institution. The Institute will be an exciting opportunity to meet and collaborate with colleagues from various disciplines, colleges, and universities.

We will e-mail you a pre-reading survey (due by June 7) and instructions to access 9 articles we would like you to read [after completing the survey, of course]. On this web site is the Institute schedule overview, a listing of the Institute’s learning objectives, and the pre-institute assignments which include materials to assemble to bring to the Institute. You will receive your Program Director's and Facilitator's Handbook and the new book, Building Faculty Learning Communities, at the institute.

If you have any questions, requests, comments or concerns, please do feel free to contact us by email at the addresses below. We look forward to meeting you.


Sincerly,

Milton D. Cox
Director, Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
FLC Program Director
Facilitator, Teaching Scholars FLC
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
email: coxmd@muohio.edu

Martha Petrone
FLC Co-facilitator, Community Using Difference to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Miami University
email: petronemc@muohio.edu

Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Professional Learning Communities Director
Otterbein College
email: LOrtquist-Ahrens@otterbein.edu

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.