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Communities

Since the mid-1990's, the Center has promoted and supported projects that involve groups of faculty and students working together on specific teaching and learning issues or research questions, with generous support from the Bush and William & Flora Hewlett foundations.

The Communities Initiative supported two types of communities:

Ideally, a community comprises at least two faculty members and at least two students.

We invite you to learn about past projects in this initiative:

Completed Community Projects

This listing of 40 completed community projects sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Teaching is intended to be exhaustive.

Teaching Communities

Name Finish Date
Creative Writing Teaching and Learning Community May 1 1999
World Literature and World History Teaching and Learning Community May 1 1999
Linear Computations: A Course Using Advanced Mathematics to Teach ''Basic'' Skills May 15 2000
Teaching and Learning Community in Creative Writing May 15 2000
Case Study: Letter from a Birmingham Jail May 1 2000
General Biology Teaching and Learning Community May 1 2000
Literacy Development May 1 2000
Integrating Courses in Business Education Dec 31 2002
An Interdisciplinary Focus on the Human Genome Project Aug 15 2003
African American Health Issues May 18 2004
Medicine and the Law: An Examination of Legal Sources Concerning Proxy Decisions and the Privacy of Medical Information Aug 15 2004
Community Collaborations through Arts- and Research-based Learning Aug 31 2006

Research Communities

Name Finish Date
XULAneXUS May 1 0000
The Black Aesthetic and Beyond Research Community May 1 1999
The Interaction of Science and Theology in Alternative Medicine May 1 1999
The Triumphs and Challenges to the Liberal Arts May 15 2000
Education and Speech Pathology: A Collaborative Research Paper May 15 2001
The Tragic Point of View May 15 2001
The Comparative Literature Initiative: Toward Strengthening the Humanities and Social Sciences at Xavier University May 15 2001
Escritoras de Espana Dec 31 2002
Flight or Fight? Motivations for Academic Achievement through Quality Education Dec 31 2002
Women and Narrative:An Oral History Research Community May 1 2003
Creating an Anthology of Feminist Theory Dec 31 2003
Etiology of Student Retention at HBCUs: A Comparative Perspective Dec 31 2003
Evaluation of Analysis Techniques for the Identification of Tilapia Stocks and Species Dec 31 2003
Freshman Mathematics Community Research Project Dec 15 2004
Escritoras de Espana Dec 31 2004
Speech Communications and Xavier University: Situating an Interdisciplinary Field within the HBCU May 15 2005
Women's Studies Program Research Community May 15 2005
The Reliability and Validity of the Stanford-Binet V in an African American College Sample Sep 1 2005

Technology Communities

Name Finish Date
From Chalkboard to Keyboard: Adapting the Engineering Graphics Course to Today's Technology May 1 1999
Music Technology and Teaching Community May 1 1999
On-line Writing Lab: Department of Business Administration and Economics May 1 1999
Student Research and the World Wide Web
Computer Science Department On-line Writing Laboratory Dec 31 1999
Creation of a Website in Medicinal Chemistry Using Students as Critical Researchers of the World Wide Web Dec 31 1999
Evaluation of World Wide Web Sites in the Fields of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology Dec 31 1999
Implementation of the Web to Benefit College of Pharmacy Faculty and Students Dec 31 1999
On-line Writing Laboratory in Communications Dec 31 1999
Students as Critical Researchers of the World Wide Web: Assessing Available On-line Resources for the History of Psychology Dec 31 1999