9th Annual Learning Communities Institute

"Linking Minds "

Monday, May 7, 2007

Scheman Building

8:00 a.m.
Check-in & Continental Breakfast (2nd Floor Lobby)

8:30 – 9:15
Welcome and Interactive Session with Doug and Corly (Rooms 220/230/240)

9:15 – 9:30 Break (2nd Floor Lobby)

9:30 – 10:30
Concurrent Sessions A
Session A1 –Starting Over: Serving the needs of transfer students
Session A2 – Creating New Partnerships between Learning Communities and ISUComm
Session A3 – Assessing Student Learning in Learning Communities
Session A4 – Launching Our Own Learning Community Business: Lessons learned from the Barista Cafe
Session A5 –Peer Mentors as Teachers in the Classroom

10:30 – 10:45
Break (2nd Floor Lobby)

10:45 – 11:45
Concurrent Sessions B
Session B1 – Exploring Opportunities for Second-Year Students
Session B2 – eDoc Electronic Portfolios
Session B3 – Academy for Leadership in Learning
Session B4 – Building an Effective Service-Learning Component for the Multicultural Learning Community
Session B5 – Activities to Enhance Faculty/Student Interactions in Learning Communities

12:00 – 1:15
Lunch (Rooms 220/230/240)
Keynote Address: Dr. Betsy Hoffman, Executive Vice President and Provost
http://www.provost.iastate.edu/

1:15 – 2:15
Concurrent Sessions C
Session C1 – Multiple Learning Community Participation
Session C2 – Common Reading Program for Uncommon Learning (click here for the Common Reading Survey Summary)
Session C3 – College-wide Task Team at Work
Session C4 – Faculty Scholarship, Recognition and Rewards
Session C5 – Best Practices of Coordinators and their Peer Mentors (Debra Sanborn, LeQuetia Ancar)

2:15– 2:25
Break (2nd Floor Lobby)

2:25—3:10
Assessment Round Tables Session: Constructing Meaningful Outcomes
(Rooms 220/230/240)

3:10– 3:50
Awards & Dessert
(Rooms 220/230/240)