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FLC Developers' Institute, June 18-21, 2008

Welcome Letter to Participants

We welcome you as a participant in our 2008 FLC Developers' Institute, Designing, Implementing, and Leading Faculty Learning Communities: Enhancing the Teaching-Learning Culture on Your Campus, June 18-21 at Claremont Graduate University. We intend to provide a knowledge and experiential foundation that will help you build an FLC program at your institution and work with colleagues to facilitate FLCs. Also, the Institute will be an opportunity to meet and collaborate with colleagues from a wide range of disciplines and institutions.

Please prepare the following assignments in advance of the institute:

• The online pre-reading survey is at http://celt.muohio.edu/eval/?q=2008FLCInst_Pre. It is due by June 10.
• After completing your survey, we encourage you to peruse the FLC Website http://www.muohio.edu/flc/. In particular, review the 30 components.
• The institute schedule overview, a list of learning objectives, and the pre-institute reading assignments (that include a list of materials to assemble to bring to the Institute) are at http://www.units.muohio.edu/flc/summer08/index.shtml; see the sidebar.
• We will send you information about how to access online the 2 articles to read.

We will have the FLC Program Director's and Facilitator's Handbook and the book, Building Faculty Learning Communities, as materials for you at the institute, included as part of your fee. If you already have these, after the conference we encourage you to share your duplicates with a colleague or your teaching center library.

If you have any questions, requests, comments or concerns, please contact Milt by email at the address below. We emphasize the importance of arriving at the opening meeting on the 18th on or before 5:00 p.m. because this event plays the key role in forming our home communities. We look forward to meeting you soon.

Sincerely,

Milton D. Cox, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching
FLC FIPSE Project Director; Mathematics
Facilitator, Teaching Scholars FLC for Early Career Faculty
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Email: coxmd@muohio.edu
Web: http://www.muohio.edu/flc

Amy Essington
Doctoral Student, Claremont Graduate University
Lecturer, History, California State University Long Beach
Participant, Preparing Future Faculty FLCs
Co-Facilitator, FLC on Inquiry of How Technology Can Improve Learning
Email: aessingt@csulb.edu

Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Teaching and Learning; German
Director, Professional Learning Communities Program
Otterbein College
Email: LOrtquist-Ahrens@Otterbein.edu
Web: http://www.otterbein.edu/academics/CTL/community.asp

Laurie Richlin, Ph.D.
Director, Future Faculty and Learning Communities Programs
Facilitator of many FLCs including Graduate Advising, Transdisciplinary Courses, Preparing Future Faculty.
Claremont Graduate University
Email: laurie.richlin@cgu.edu
Web: http://www.iats.com/

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.