By combining all facets from learning to live together through work environments in the internships and traditional academic reflection in the Senior Seminar, this learning community has the potential to be a model for other applications. For additional information on the Internship Learning Community Project, contact Michael Livingston . We are further committed to making the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University regional centers for Asian Studies and leaders in an effort to communicate with and better understand our Asian neighbors, abroad and at home. To these ends, our immediate mission is the building of a strong and institutionalized Asian Learning Community on our campuses. The ES Learning community involves students in an interdisciplinary investigation of a set of specific environmental issues of importance to Northern Minnesota.
Faculty development takes place in several ways.
This should help all of the participating faculty to incorporate new topics into the courses they currently teach. It will also enable the faculty to get students excited and involved in environmental, economic, and political issues important to them as well as to the state of Minnesota. Both students and faculty involved in this project develop an appreciation for the complexity of environmental issues through their integration of complementary academic disciplines. For faculty, this project is particularly appealing since it enables them to teach and learn from each other in a collaborative, team-taught program . This allows them to view complex issues from multiple perspectives with the help of colleagues with complementary expertise.