September 29, 2015Recommendations for practitioners and advocates of residential learning communities (part 1 of 2)by Peter Felten, Jessie L. Moore, and Jon DooleyIn July 2015, Elon’s Center for Engaged Learning hosted a three-day think tank on residential learning communities that brought together a dozen scholars and practitioners. To learn more about the think tank, our participants, and their recommendations for new research,…
August 11, 2015Recommendations for new research on residential colleges, learning communities, and other academic-residential partnershipsby Peter Felten, Jon Dooley, and Jessie L. MooreIn July 2015, Elon’s Center for Engaged Learning hosted a three-day think tank on residential learning communities that brought together a dozen scholars and practitioners (participants are listed below). Learning communities have been defined in a wide variety of ways…