Baldwin-Wallace College
Carmel Living Learning Center
Address: 275 Eastland Road
City: Berea
State: OH
Zip or Postal Code: 44017-2088
Country: USA
Program Director (or best person to contact): Dr. Robert R. Ebert
Email: rebert@bw.edu
Phone: 440-826-2033
Fax: 440-826-3835
Web Address: http://www.bw.edu
Brief Program Summary
The Carmel Living Learning Center (CLLC) is a residential housing option that allows Baldwin-Wallace Students who have similar academic goals and interests to live together in communities. The CLLC offers a collaborative living and learning environment that incorporates increased student-faculty interaction. Courses taught in the CLLC are complemented by co-curricular activities and assignments which are meant to expand the Carmel residents' definitions of learning.
Sources of funding
The college's institutional budget
Program Reports To:
Vice President for Academic Affairs and Vice President for Student Affairs (joint reporting)
Are students charged an additional fee: No
The number of persons in each of the following categories are teaching academic credit bearing courses
Fulltime Tenured Faculty: 6
Fulltime Probationary Faculty: 0
Fulltime Instructors: 0
Fulltime Retired Faculty: 0
Fulltime Adjunct Faculty: 0
Fulltime Graduate Students: 0
Fulltime Residence Hall Staff: 4
Parttime Tenured Faculty: 0
Parttime Probationary Faculty: 0
Parttime Instructors: 0
Parttime Retired Faculty: 0
Parttime Adjunct Faculty: 0
Parttime Graduate Students: 1
Parttime Residence Hall Staff: 5
Academic staff involved in the program that weren't included as faculty above
(Academic staff are personnel who are involved in providing academic services to students such as advising.)
Fulltime Academic Staff: 2
Parttime Academic Staff: 0
Non-academic staff involved in the program
(Non-academic staff are personnel who are involved in providing services that do not directly involve academics such as residence hall staff or staff who organize social activities that are not tied to academics.)
Fulltime Non-Academic Staff: 4
Parttime Non-Academic Staff: 0
Number of faculty offices in the residence hall: 0
The approximate percentage of students in each grade level
First Year: 50
Second Year: 40
Third Year: 8
Fourth Year and above: 2
Graduate Students: 0
Total Number of Students: 85
Year the Program Began:2000
Academic Courses Offered In The Community
None of the courses is a required course, but some may be used for core distribution requirements:
Health Literacy: Individual to Community. May be applied to HPE core credits.
Principles of Economics: 2 course sequence, 4 semester hours each. May be applied to Social Science core requirements. Required for economics and business majors,
Sociology: A Global Perspective. May be applied to SOcial Science Core requirements.
Literature and Performance of Theater and Film. May be applied to humanities core requirements.
Other Academic Offerings
Classrooms in hall
2
Summary of Facilities and Facilities Budget Suite-style residence hall with six lounges and two classrooms. Budget (except for faculty and staff salaries) is $12,000 per year.
Computer Resources in the Residence Hall
All student rooms, lounges, and classrooms are wired to provide access to the college's computer network. Classrooms are fully media equipped.
The Role of Community Partnerships
The economics and Health Literacy courses partner with local agencies and organizations to provide experiential and service learning opportunities.
The Role of Leadership Development
The Role of Research
Summary of Assessment Activities
Current assessment activites use an internally developed questionnaire for students in the Carmel Living Learning Center. Faculty complete a questionnaire about the CLLC experience. We are beginning to use the National Survey of Student Engagement to track differences among learning community students and other students at Baldwin-Wallace College.
Summary of Extracurricular Activities Formally Associated with the Program
Discussion groups, field trips, group dinners, guest lecturers meeting with the CLLC students in the residence hall.
The Role of Interdisciplinary Studies
This year there are no interdisciplinary curses as such. In previous years we have had history/religion, psychology/religion, economic/political science, and English/history sequences. Much depends in any given year on faculty interests.
How Diversity Issues are Addressed in the Program and in Courses
The Sociology and Economic courses this year address the diversity issue from global, gender, and racial viewpoints.
How Diversity Issues are Addressed Among Faculty and Students
Student Demographics
The full-time undergraduate student population is 60% female and 40% male. Approximately 8% of the undergraduate student body consists of minorities.Average ACT is 23
Faculty Rewards for Participation in the Program
Release Time:
Salary Supplement:
Travel Funds:
Other:
Description of Other Rewards
Disciplines Represented by the Faculty
Economics, Health and Physical Education, Theater, Speech, Sociology.
Willing to Serve as a Consultant:
Yes
Greatest Challenges for this Learning Community:
1) Encouraging students to take the "risk" to become involved in a learning communities program. 2) Demands on faculty time: the faculty is often reluctant to become involved in the Carmel Living Learning Center because of other course and college commitments.
3) Building the links between Student Affairs (Residence Life) and the faculty that will enable optimum utilization of the facility and maximize student educational outcomes.
Suggested Bibliography
Shapiro, Nancy S. and Jodi Levine. "Creating Learning Communities." San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999.
Shapiro, Nancy S. and Jodi Levine Laufgraben. "Sustaining & Improving Learning COmmunities." San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
2004