Living Learning Communities @ UW-MilwaukeeUniversity Housing & Student Success Center

Welcome!

Ericca Pollack Rolland Director Student Success Center

Keri Duce, Student Success CoordinatorAmanda Balistreri,

Learning Community Graduate AssistantMatt Crouse, Assistant Director Residence Life

What is an LLC?• Community within a community• Similar interests or major• Take a course together• Co-curricular programming• Service Learning• Collaborate with RA and Mentor

This Years Offerings:• American Sign Language

• Architecture

• Art & Design

• Beyond Borders

• Business Panthers

• Communication and Conflict

• Community Leadership

• Creating Your Future

• Crossroads

• Dance Foundations

 

• Environmental Sustainability

and Biology-Mathematics

• Film, Video and New Genres

• Helping Hands in Healthcare

• Honors House

Innovation House

• Lab Rats

• Mobile Apps

• Music Community

• Transfer Community

• Wisconsin Covenant Scholars

Why did you participate?LLC Pre-Test Fall 2012 (266 total respondents out of 650)

• To meet people with similar interests• Interested in topic of class• To get involved on campus• To develop a positive peer group

2012 Feedback• “I feel living in a LLC is a great advantage due to the face that

I am surrounded by fellow Architecture majors every day. The people around me are generally all in the same classes as me so we are able to work on homework together and discuss assignments from class that we may not have fully grasped without them”(Student)

• “The ASL LLC is wonderful! I enjoy being around other people who use ASL. We have a lot of fun :).” (Student)

Retention and Satisfaction (2010)

Satisfactory Per-formance Enrolled 2nd Fall

0.00%10.00%20.00%30.00%40.00%50.00%60.00%70.00%80.00%

LLCNon LLCCommuter

Learning Outcomes and Assessment

73.58% satisfied

73.89%

Learning Outcomes79.52%

70.68%

Learning Outcomes85.14%

Learning Outcomes76.3%

Stakeholder Expectations - Instructors• Course development matching learning outcomes.• Work with academic advisors and course schedulers for marketing and registration.• Provide syllabus to LLC Mentor and RA.• Meet with LLC Mentor and RA one time each month to provide insight and guidance into the facilitation of co-curricular programs. • Connect with the students on an individual basis through office hours, co-curricular programming, etc.• Attend all required staff meetings, retreats, and trainings.

Stakeholder Expectations - Mentors• Stay connected to the students assigned to the LLC, help make them aware

of resources, by hosting weekly office hours in the residence halls.

• Attend the course, as communicated by the instructor/faculty, to provide in-person updates, discuss study skills, provide program information, etc.

• Meet with the RA an additional time each month for planning and discussion purposes.

• Utilize MAP-Works (Making Achievement Possible)

• Blog once a month on LLC blogspot per the provided guidelines.

• Meet with LLC stakeholders one time each month to help facilitate 3 co-curricular programs each semester as well as 1 service learning project within the year.

Stakeholder Expectations - RAs• Lives on the same floor as the LLC students and can answer all the

questions about living in the residence halls, mediating roommate conflicts, etc.

• Utilize MAP-Works (www.map-works.com)

• Meet with the Mentor an additional time each month for planning and discussion purposes.

• Blog once a month on LLC blogspot per the provided guidelines.

• Meet with LLC stakeholders one time each month to help facilitate 3 co-curricular programs each semester as well as 1 service learning project within the year.

Stakeholder Expectations – Residence Life Coordinator Lana• Directly supervise RAs• Regularly work with LLC RA to assess community needs and help RA

and Mentor to develop interventions and programming accordingly, utilizing MAP-Works.

• Point of contact if there are student concerns that require follow up from a professional University Housing staff member.

• General facilities-related issues, including room reservations.• Provide programming and funding information to LLC Coordinator

and Learning Community Graduate Assistant.• Meet with the LLC stakeholders once a month.

2012 Feedback• “Compared with other first years seminars I have taught, the

class seems more relaxed, motivated and interactive. “ (Faculty)

• “Great LLC overall! The instructor wants to be involved!” =] (Mentor)

• “I am very passionate about this LLC because I truly see its potential as a program and most importantly, as a group of individuals. “ (RA)

Programming• Facilitate 3 co-curricular programs each

semester (Lead by Mentor and RA)• Relevant to LLC/what students are learning

in the classroom– Fall Welcome Events (PRIDE)

– Visit Discovery World

– Art trip to Chicago

– Resume writing workshop

Programming

Service Learning

• Each LLC completes one Service Learning project during the academic year.

Funding

• Programs• Events• Gold Cards

Process, Forms, and MarketingDue October 1st!

• Open House• Housing Contract• HTML Emails• Mailings• Course Registration• New Student Orientation

Tours (and Shuttles)

• Cambridge Commons – Rich• RiverView Residence Hall – Chris• Sandburg - Sarah

Work Time

• Laptops• Marketing Assistance with Matt• Lunch at 11:30am in Sandburg Café

Questions?Contact Keri Duce at

klduce@uwm.edu

www.LLC.uwm.edu