It is sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence and is open to all faculty, administrators and staff with a role in curriculum design, academic advising, student services, teaching or student recruitment and retention. In learning communities, students register for a cluster of courses.
Faculty offer cooperative class exercises to explore issues that cut across the curriculum.
It will involve a commitment of funds, people and other reources. To lend some direction to the discussion, Richardson has invited three faculty members from other universities to share experiences. Richardson said he has asked the visitors to talk, as a panel, about what works and hasn't worked at their schools. Experienced faculty and staff from ISU's young learning communities program also will participate in the symposium. They are assistant registrar Laura Doering, associate professor of English Marty Graham and professor of biology Warren Dolphin.