The changes caused by the implementation of learning communities may shake up college campuses. This article offers advice on how to make learning communities succeed. It suggests identifying roles and priorities, developing a planning calendar, and reaching out to the campus and local community. Also discusses how to deal with resistance to…

Claims that curriculum planning and effective advising will help students develop intellectual connections across their individual courses and thus enhance their college experience. Explains how nine colleges now use interdisciplinary teaching to improve their engineering programs by making connections across department boundaries, college…

Examines the obstacles to productive collaborations between academic and student affairs. Argues that faculty and student affairs professionals should embrace their essential differences, such as opposite personality styles, formal learning, individuality and community, and power and powerlessness. Such differences offer students examples of the…