Student Engagement = Student Learning
Learning Communities are a fundamental strategy institutions use to develop student engagement as they result in the following:
- The development of support peer groups
- Greater student involvement in classroom learning
- Greater student interaction with faculty
- More time studying
- Improved syntheses of material and analysis of problems
- More interaction with diverse peers
- Perception of greater academic development
- Greater integration of students academic and non-academic lives
- A sense of "educational citizenship" - a sense of responsibility for the learning of others as well as one's own.
- Reduction of high risk behavior
- Greater student involvement in social activities
- Students in the same FFC Course will be assigned to the same hall
- Co-curricular programmatic initiatives will occur to meet the needs of all first year students
- Commuter First Year Students will be "adopted" by residential
communities
A few more details:
- Students in the same FFC Course will be assigned to the same hall
- Co-curricular programmatic initiatives will occur to meet the needs of all first year students
- Commuter First Year Students will be "adopted" by residential communities
