| Scholars Learning Communities (SLCs) are sustained, voluntary collaborations between faculty, professional staff, and administrators in higher education. SLCs have been demonstrated to advance the scholarship of teaching and learning in curricular and co-curricular educational settings, build community across disciplines, span institutional boundaries, and make public the acts of teaching and learning for scholarly investigation. SLCs demonstrate potential for collaboration across Academic and Student Affairs to assist students in integrating formal and informal learning in curricular and co-curricular learning environments. SLCs function in an autonomous manner through self-determination of leadership or facilitation, agenda-setting, meeting frequency, generating scholarly dialogue around shared interests, and selection of an eventual focus of projects or products. SLC members discuss issues around teaching and learning, review relevant literature, provide critical review and feedback for one another's ideas and projects, collaborate on projects ranging from publications to conference presentations, and design integrated teaching and learning experiences. |
