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http://depts.washington.edu/fyp/figs.html

- On learning communities: The University of 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.

 

http://wvsc.edu/student/saoffices/retention/enrollment.html

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http://www.aaup.org/publications/Academe/03jf/03jfsmi.htm

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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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http://www.csfi-wadsworth.com

- 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

- 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

- Honolulu Community College offers a web site that lists teaching behaviors that could impact student learning.

 

http://www.tcnj.edu/%7Eminment/index2.htm

- The College of New Jersey focuses on advisement and mentoring of minority students as well as retention of second-, third-, and fourth-year students.