How do I apply to be in a returning student learning community? Current students who are interested in taking part in a returning learning community (LC) will need to complete the housing ...

Shirley Hord, Learning Forward’s scholar laureate, has focused her career on research about and practice of effective professional learning communities. Here she answers an educator’s question about ...

Placement in a learning community (LC) is determined by a comprehensive review of all applications to create optimal learning environments for each LC. The LC placement criteria include elements such ...

The Learning Community Mentor (LCM) is a paraprofessional student staff member for Student Housing and Residence Life that will work to execute the goals and initiatives of a given academic Learning ...

Students live with other students from the same academic program, making it easy to form study groups or project teams. Living Learning Communities (LLCs) are assigned a specific area in a residence ...

Almost four years after colleges shifted to emergency remote instruction at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, presidents, provosts and other senior leaders are grappling with tough decisions around ...

In Fall 2025, the UAB Heersink School of Medicine announced the creation of a twelfth Learning Community (LC). This is the first time an LC has been added since the founding of the program in 2015, ...

All incoming first-year FCP students will be placed into the Full Circle Project learning communities. The learning community consists of a cohort of FCP students enrolled in specific courses together ...