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Direct linkPike, Gary R. – About Campus, 2008
Learning communities can trace their origins to the 1920s and the experimental College at the University of Wisconsin, but the widespread use of learning communities to improve undergraduate education is a relatively new phenomenon. The early learning communities of the late 1980s and early 1990s consisted of groups of new freshmen co-enrolled in…
Descriptors: Experimental Colleges, College Freshmen, Predictor Variables, Evaluation Criteria
Magner, Denise K. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1989
Among the problems faced by unorthodox colleges are prevention of stagnation and attracting faculty members who share the institution's vision of undergraduate education. Representatives of 16 colleges at a "Meeting of Innovative Colleges" suggest that innovative programs have often taken on institutional lives of their own, making…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Experimental Colleges, Faculty Recruitment, Higher Education
