“From Engaged Learners to Learning Communities”

Jean MacGregor
Founding Director
Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education
Evergreen State College, Washington

February 9, 2006
Welch Hall, Provost's Conference Room
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

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Abstract:   We know that active learning in classes can stimulate more engaged learning, but what is the next step? This active learning workshop will introduce the learning communities approach (ways to link learning between classes) and demonstrate how faculty can collaborate to make learning communities an important strategy for strengthening student engagement and success.

Bio:   Jean MacGregor is senior scholar at the Washington Center where she directs the Center’s new Curriculum for the Bioregion initiative. She and her colleague, Barbara Leigh Smith, are considered the founders of the learning communities movement in higher education. Jean has served as co-director of the National Learning Communities Project, a Pew Charitable Trusts-funded initiative aimed at strengthening learning communities programs and communities of practice. She has been a leader in other Center projects, most notably projects focusing on cultural pluralism and academic success for students of color, and on mathematics and science reform. In 1998, Jean was named by Change magazine as one the eleven national “agenda setters” selected from a group of eighty past, present and future leader in higher education. In 2003 Jean was given the Virginia B. Smith Innovative Leadership Award for her “demonstrated ability to foster changes in higher education that resulted in substantial improvement-measured by the benefits to students and more effective uses of resources.” She has published extensively in areas including learning communities, student self evaluation and teaching large classes.

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