Kansas City Kansas Community College

Learning Communities

What are Learning Communities?

• Are linked during an academic term
• Share an interdisciplinary theme
• Enroll a common cohort of students
• Engage two or more faculty to collaboratively restructure and teach course content

• Increased retention and academic achievement
• Increased student involvement and motivation
• Improved degree completion time
• Enhanced student intellectual development

• Broadened pedagogical repertoire of faculty
• Increased faculty engagement with one another
• Increased collaboration among faculty, staff, students, and community
• Refreshed scholarly interests

• Increased ways for students to engage in general education curriculum
• Enhanced quality of education
• Increased climate of innovation
• Promotes interdisciplinary thinking