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Iowa State's LC's among the top 25 programs
"Guiding Your Second-Year Students to Success" newsletter
Fall 2007 edition newsletter (PDF)
Mimi Benjamin to receive 2007 Betty Harrah Manuscript of the Year Award
Mimi Benjamin will receive the 2007 Betty L. Harrah Journal Manuscript of the Year Award from ACUHO-I for "Role Construction of Residential Learning Community Peer Mentors," published in the Journal of College and University Housing.
This is the second award recognizing Mimi's dissertation research. She previously received the 2004 Outstanding Research Award from the ACPA Commission for Housing and Residential Life.
For more information about this award, please visit http://www.acuho-i.org/AboutUs/Awards/tabid/581/Default.aspx
Bonuses Abound in Learning Communities
Inside Iowa State, January 28, 2005, by Samantha Beres
ISU's Learning Communities Rank among Nation's Best
ISU News Service, September 15, 2005, by Dan Kuester
Skunk River Navy receives the 2005 Governor's Iowa Environmental Excellence Award
The Skunk River Navy is being recognized with an award from the State of Iowa - the 2005 Governor's Iowa Environmental Excellence Award. The award ceremony is scheduled for Thursday, May 11, 2006 at 2:00 PM in the State Historical Society Building auditorium in Des Moines. Parking is available in the garage across the street on Grand Ave. A short coffee/punch/cookie reception will follow the ceremony.
Article from College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Award letter from Governor Tom Vilsack
2005 Best Paper Award to Two ABE Faculty
News Release
Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering Department
June 27, 2005
Contact: Sue Ziegenbusch, 102 Davidson Hall, sziegenb@iastate.edu, 515-294-1434
Tom Brumm, 107 Davidson Hall, tbrumm@iastate.edu, 515-294-5145
Steve Mickelson, 103 Davidson Hall, estaben@iastate.edu, 515-294-6524
2005 Best Paper Award to Two ABE Faculty
Dr. Steve Mickelson and Dr. Tom Brumm, faculty members in the Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering department at Iowa State University, received the 2005 Best Paper Award from the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). They collaborated on a peer-reviewed proceedings paper, “Measuring the Success of Learning Communities,” that was presented at the ASEE annual meeting in Portland, Oregon on June 12-15. This paper presented the longitudinal assessment results of the successful Agricultural & Biosystems Engineering Learning Community at ISU. Drs. Mickelson and Brumm are nationally renowned for their curricular and assessment innovations that contribute to and document student success before and after graduation.
Mini-Grant Applications
Mini-grant applications are due on Friday, July 14. Word doc.
Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Article on the new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Learning Community
Des Moines Business Record – Central Iowa’s Weekly Business Journal
“Energetic, focused, and wanting to start businesses”
http://www.businessrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=30&SubSectionID=42&ArticleID=1385
Featured Articles
Entrepreneur and Innovation Learning Community featured in Inside Iowa State
(February 13, 2004)Newspaper Physics Learning Community
featured in Fermilab Today Newsletter (October 10, 2003)Human Development and Family Studies Learning Community
featured in College of Family and Consumer Sciences Newsnotes (October 8, 2003)Reports
Where Are Learning Communities Now? National Leaders Take Stock (from About Campus, May-June, 2005, by Jean MacGregor and Barbara Leigh Smith)
Events
Open House
Iowa State was pleased to serve as one of ten sites in the Midwest and South to host an Open House in the spring of 2004 for the National Learning Communities Project. The Open House was held Friday, February 27, 2004 in the Memorial Union on the campus of Iowa State.
"Overview of ISU Learning Communities" - Opening presentation given by Corly Brooke and Doug Gruenewald
News Archive
Consultants' Visit Successful
Pat Hutchings, vice-president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and Barbara Leigh Smith, Co-Director of the National Learning Communities Project at Evergreen State College visited Iowa State in February. The focus of their visit was faculty development and involvement in learning communities.
Hutchings and Smith developed a report that highlighted both strengths and recommendations for improvement. The full report and an Executive Summary can be accessed below. The Executive Summary provides excerpts from the full report.
Learning Communities Highly Ranked
10-4-2002 | University Relations
Iowa State's learning communities were rated among the top five in the
country in U.S. News and World Report's recent "Best Colleges" rankings.
More than 2000 Iowa State students are members of nearly 50 learning communities.
Students in learning communities take some courses together, work with peer
mentors, create their own study groups and sometimes, live on the same residence
floors.
Assessment results indicate that students in learning communities are more
satisfied with their overall experience at Iowa State and are more likely to
remain at Iowa State after one, two, and three years.