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Washington has been doing freshman interest groups for a long time.
http://desu.edu/support_services/orientation/index.php
-Delaware
State University has taken a proactive approach to advising and mentoring
programs.
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College Enrollment Trends.
http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/03jf/03jfsmi.htm
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Wagner College is an example of an institution that incorporates learning
communities in its liberal arts curriculum. They have instituted a
program where each student participates in 3 learning communities during their
4-year undergraduate career: one during freshman year, one for both
sophomore and junior years, and the last learning community during the
student's senior year.
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St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York has a program for its first-year
students with four integrated components: multidisciplinary team-taught courses
focusing on enduring questions of the human experience; extensive attention to
writing, speaking, research, and critical reflection; an enriched advising
system; and residential colleges in which students live and learn together.
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/CASTL/highered/campus_program.htm
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and learning campus program, spearheaded by AAHE and Carnegie. The teaching portfolio forms the locus of
the faculty development process.
http://www.chem.sunysb.edu/hanson-foc/index.htm
- Dr. David Hanson and his colleagues have done some
of the foundational research on collaborative/cooperative learning.
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College Success Factor Index by Dr. Edmond Hallberg, professor emeritus of Education and Higher
Education Counseling Coordinator at California State University, Los Angeles.
http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/3-5.pdf
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Speaker, Parker J. Palmer, explains the relevance of learning communities.
http://www.evergreen.edu/washcenter/resources/LCModels/
- Basic
models to create learning communities including examples.
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/studretn.htm
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Honolulu Community College offers a web site that lists teaching behaviors that
could impact student learning.
http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Eminment/index2.htm
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The College of New Jersey focuses on advisement and mentoring of minority
students as well as retention of second-, third-, and fourth-year students.