Learning that Lasts
Learning That Lasts has been a systemwide faculty development initiative supported 2002-2005 by the Bush Foundation and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities Office of the Chancellor. The project included statewide faculty development opportunities, instructional development funds for faculty, and campus-based leadership development.
Systemwide Faculty Development
CTL Weekend Seminars are a series of full-day regional faculty seminars offered to all MnSCU faculty as weekend workshops on learning-centered topics most requested by faculty, including active learning, writing across the curriculum, critical thinking, engaging students online, teaching in racially diverse classrooms, and other timely topics.
Systemwide Instructional Development
LTL Grants included $750,000 in incentive grants awarded over three years 2002-2005 to faculty teams to seed and grow campus change agendas through teaching and curriculum development projects.
2004-2005 Learning That Lasts Grants
The Center for Teaching and Learning approved 41 grants totaling nearly $420,000 to faculty teams and institutions for projects promoting active learning in academic and professional programs throughout the system in spring 2004. Funded projects took place during the 2004-05 academic year.
Many of the projects support areas defined in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities' strategic plan, Designing the Future, including teacher education, nursing, community development and increasing access and opportunity.
2003-04 Learning That Lasts Grants
In 2003, the Center for Teaching and Learning awarded 44 grants totaling $354,191 to faculty teams and institutions for projects promoting active learning on system campuses. Grants were offered through the Center for Teaching and Learning with funds from the Office of the Chancellor and The Bush Foundation. Funded projects were conducted during the 2003-04 academic year.
Campus Faculty Leadership
Active Learning Advocates This faculty leadership development program selected, trained, and supported 14 faculty who served as peer consultants and change agents (Active Learning Advocates) to create a campus cultures focusing on long-lasting student learning.
Learning That Lasts took its title from the book by Marcia Mentkowski and Associates, Learning that Lasts, (2000) Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc. to refer to "an integration of learning, development and performance" Mentkowski and her associates are faculty and student affairs professionals at Alverno College who have worked over 25 years to accomplish and document the processes and effects of institutional efforts to create a learning-centered college.
Learning (n.) An active and interactive process that results in meaningful, long-lasting changes. This definition comes from Peter Jones, University of California, Irvine.
Annual Reports
As part of the Learning That Lasts grant, the Center for Teaching and Learning will submit annual progress reports. Those reports will be posted here.
