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Resources Our most important resources have been two learning community groups: National Learning Communities Project The Washington Center The Evergreen State College Learning Communities Commons Regional Learning Communities Consortium De Anza College LinC Consortium
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Institutional Information Serving more than 12,000 students each semester, College of San Mateo (CSM) is located mid-way between San Francisco and Silicon Valley in the heart of the San Francisco Bay Area. Its students, typical of California community college students, are on average older, less affluent, and more ethnically and racially diverse than students at most baccalaureate universities. CSM employs 180 full-time faculty.
CSM Homepage
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Team Michael C. Burke (Project Leader), Professor of Mathematics Jean Mach, Professor of English Dr. Jeremy Ball, Professor of Philosophy
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Michael C. Burke (left), Jean Mach (center), Dr. Jeremy Ball (right).
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Other Activities CSM has launched several initiatives to promote interdisciplinary studies and intergrated learning--the Integrated Science Center (ISC), the Learning Communities Program, and an Honors Program. Now institutionalized, the ISC is both a lab and tutorial center where students from biology, chemistry, geology, and physics participate collaboratively in multi-disciplinary inquiry-based science activities. The Honors Program, revitalized under the leadership of Dr. Jeremy Ball, embraces the same goal of a larger vision of the college. To further develop the learning communities program is the focus of CSM's ILP work.
CSM Learning Communities
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Project Timeline Over the three years of the project, CSM will measurably expand and institutionalize its learning communities program by tackling needed work in the key areas of integration of Instruction and Student Services, recruitment of new faculty, promotion of classes, development of assessment instruments, and dissemination of our work to the college and beyond. This summer, the team will develop assessment instruments and strategies for the learning communities. By the end of Fall 2004, strategies to integrate Instruction and Student Services in the learning communities will be implemented. By the end of Spring 2005, team members will present their work in several public venues.
Action Plan (downloads as a Word document)
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