For the past two summers, the CTE has sponsored faculty learning communities. Faculty members were chosen through a competitive application process to explore the question of how to better cultivate engaged learners.

Each group read two core texts on promoting engaged learning in the classroom, reflected on their own teaching techniques and goals, updated their syllabi and assessment tools and discussed how to apply their learning in their fall classes. In the fall members meet to share their classroom experiences and visit each other's classroom to see how the techniques in the reading work in practice. Each group will then give a presentation in the spring to share their insights with the rest of the faculty.

Members for the 2011 summer and fall were:

Members for the 2010 summer and fall were: