Learning Communities

SCC's BSI Committee helped to send a team to The Evergreen State College's Washington Center for Improving the Quality of Undergraduate Education's Learning Communities National Summer Institute in June of 2008. We came away from our week of intense learning, discussion, and planning with a desire to revitalize learning communites at Solano and to create a developmental learning communities program: the Pathways to Success first- and second-semester experiences.

While we were there, our team was asked to host the 2009 2nd Annual California Learning Communites Consortium Planning Retreat, which will be hosted by Solano from April 2-4, 2009. More information about the retreat can be found here and here.

At our March 2nd, 2009 BSI Committee meeting, the committee voted to create several scholarship retreat enrollments for SCC faculty who have not previously been invovled with learning communities. The recipients have to be nominated by a peer to be considered for the retreat scholarship, and the deadline for consideration is Monday, March 23rd, 2009. Nominees' names should be emailed to joshua.stein@solano.edu.

The recipients of the CLLC BSI scholarships are Howard "Tim" Boerner from Reading, Tonmar Johnson from Sociology, Melissa Reeve from ESL/English, and Lisa Romero from Nursing.