Newsletter Archive
Washington Center Newsletters — 1986 – 2006
Spring 1986 (PDF)
This first newsletter includes a listing of the founding institutions within Washington state.
Fall 1986 (PDF)
Details the inter-institutional faculty exchanges the Washington Center pioneered in its first years as well as an in-depth look at Coordinated Studies programs at Seattle Central Community College.
Spring 1987 (PDF)
In this issue, faculty from two- and four-year institutions share their perspectives on teaching and collaborative learning.
- The Language of Inclusion: Writing at the Center, by Chris Rideout
- Seven Principles For Good Practice in Undergraduate Education, by Arthur W. Chickering and Zelda F.Gamson
- First-Timers' Perspectives on Collaborative Teaching, by Carl Waluconis
- Design and Implementation of Four Learning Community Models, by Jean MacGregor
- An Open Letter to those Responsible for Undergraduate Education, by Richard Clark
- High Schools for the 21st Century, by Jill Severn and Gary Howard
- Courage Must Be Cultivated in Our Troubled Young People, by Sy Schwartz
- A Single Teacher/Single Parent Analogy: The Students' Loss, by Anne Stephens
Spring 1989 (PDF)
Details the first state-wide General Education retreat
- Involvement in Learning: Four Years Later, Its Message Still Stands, by Kenneth P. Mortimer
- Taking it Back: What Teachers Take Back to the Traditional Classrooms After Teaching in Learning Communities, by Julianne Seeman
- Collaborative Learning: Recognizing It When We See It, by William Whipple
- Minority Student Success in College: What Works, by Carolyn Brewer
Fall 1990 (PDF)
Details the fifth anniversary of the Washington Center with a look back of accomplishments made in the first five years
- Freshman Interest Groups at the University of Washington: Building Community for Freshmen at a Large University, by Claire F. Sullivan
- What Differences do Learning Communities Make? by Jean MacGregor
- An Outside-In View: Faculty Views of Collaborative Learning Communities in Washington Community Colleges, by Gary Tollefson
- An Inside-Out View: Conversations about Curriculum Reform at Seattle Central, by Nancy Finley
- Walking the Assessment Line at a Non-Traditional College: the Evergreen Experience, by Steve Hunter
- Classroom Research: An Introduction, by Bruce Kochis
- Mid-Course Adjustments: Using Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Improve Teaching and Learning, by Ken White
- Teaching Self-Assessment, by Thad Curtz
- Reflective Interviews with Learning Community Teaching Teams: Strengthening Dialogue about Teaching and Learning, by Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean MacGregor
- Who Will Lead the Reform of Higher Education? Librarians, of Course! by Patrick Hill
- Integrating Library Instruction Across the Curriculum: Some Lessons From Writing Across The Curriculum Programs, by Deborah Hatch
- General Education Reform: Rhetoric and Reality, by Barbara Leigh Smith
- Can Educational Giants Learn to Dance? by Don Bantz
- The AGLS Conference as a Resource for Community Colleges, by Marie Rosenwasser
- General Education and Faculty Development, by Jeffers Chertok
- A Memo from Richmond College, by Maurice Milne
- The Intellectual Development of College Students, by Kathe Taylor
- Facing the Development of Values Head On, by Dwight Oberholtzer
- Writing and Critical Thinking and General Education: Reflections on the 1991 AGLS Conference, by Leo Daugherty
- Diversity and General Education, by Virginia Grant Darney
- Cultural Pluralism in the Academy, by Betty Schmitz
- Cultural Pluralism and Organizational Change: The Washington Center Cultural Pluralism Project, by Barbara Leigh Smith
- The Challenge of 1992, by Angela Gilliam
- What is Collaborative Learning? by Barbara Leigh Smith and Jean T. MacGregor
- The Challenge of Reform is to Remake Ourselves, by Susan Wyche-Smith
- Collaborative Learning and Multiculturalism: A Report from the Washington Center Conference, by Kay McDade
- What I Learned at the Revolution, by Burton S. Guttman
Fall 1993 (PDF)
Describes work in progress on cultural pluralism and diversity in Washington State
- Calculus Reform and the Revitalizing of Mathematics Education, by Robert S. Cole
- Why Should We Care About the Teaching of Calculus, by Robert S. Cole
- 20 Questions that Deans Should Ask Their Mathematics Department (Or, that a sharp department will ask itself), by Lynn Arthur Steen
- Initiating Reform at Olympic College, by Ann Brackebusch
- Realistic Problem-Solving in Large-Scale Scenarious in Calculus Classes, by Carl Main and Betty Hawkins
- Mathematics Program Reform at Seattle Central—A Case Study, by Jan Ray
- Seattle Central is a Regional Lab for Intereactive Mathematics Text, by Mike Pepe
- Will Technology Cripple Our Ability to Do Mathematics? by Carl Swenson
Spring 1994 (PDF)
Discusses the past ten years (1984-1994) of work at the Washington Center
- Collaborative Approaches in Science Education Reform, by Candace Byrne
- "Reflections of Nature", by Candace Byrne
- More Reflections, by Candace Byrne
- "Rethinking Introductory Biology"—Conversion Experiences, by Candace Byrne
- What's Happening with Science Education Reform? by Candace Byrne
- Difficult Dialogues toward the Common Good, by Johnnella E. Butler
- "Mean Spirit...NOT": Lessons Learned form the Cultural Pluralism Project, by Betty Schmitz
- Changing Teaching; Changing Teachers; The Impact of Calculus Reform, by Robert S. Cole
- An Island in Time: A Report on the Calculus Consortium Retreat held at Rainow Lodge February, 1996, by Diane Downie
- Impacts of Technology on the Mathematics Curriculum, by Eric Schulz
- What Students Say About Group Work in Calculus, by Bobby Righi
- Matters of the Spirit, by Phyllis Leonard
- Materials Supporting Reform in the Courses Before Calculus, by Janet Ray
- What Effect Has Reform Calculus Had on Subsequent Mathematics Courses? by Robert Cole
- Taking a Look at Learning Communities Nationally, by Tim McLaughlin
- Compared to What? How Do We Evaluate Learning? by W. Dwight Oberholtzer
- Technology, Learning and "The Complexity of Coming to Know," by Bill Moore
- Observations on a Conference: What I Want to do on Monday, by Kevin Facemyer
- The Promise of Technology: Access for Whom? According to What Criteria? by Rebecca Boon, Jacquie George, and Yi Lin Sun
- Using Technology to Enhance Diversity Work: A Look at Diversity Connections, by Bob Steele
- Faculty Development and the Challenge of Technology: Are We Starving at the Horn of Plenty? by Porsche Everson
- The New Frontier: On-line Interdisciplinary Studies Courses, by Jan Strever and Lynn West
- Reflecting on Trade-Offs, by Ann Swanson
- Multicultural Efforts Project: A State Board Initiative, by Earl Hale
- Using Data to Inform Action Projects, by Loretta Seppanen
- Teach, and Learn, Every Way You Can, by Magda Constantino
- "Transición": A Program Tailored to Serve the Hispanic Population, by Nicolas Zavala
- The Hidden Curriculum: Internalized Oppression and Curriculum Design in Higher Education, by George Freeman
- Guarding the Spirit: Parker J. Palmer's Workshop on "Inner Work for Teachers and Reformers," by Terry Martin
- Teaching Communities Within Learning Communities, by Jean MacGregor
- Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Steps to Forming Coalitions, by Emily Decker
- Change Agent, by Jacque Mott
- Invocation, by Laura Rendón
- Academics of the Heart, by Laura Rendón
- Learning from Messiness, by Gary Daynes
- In Your Face: Five Tips for More Effective Learning Communities on Culture and Race, by Vincent F. A. Golphin
- Learning Communities and Technology: The Diagnostic Dialectic, by Steve Quinn
- Leaning Community Assessment Studies: What the Washington Center Resources Show, by Jerri Lindblad
- Appreciation of Community and Friendship, by Nel Hellenberg, Carolyn Stephens, and Tom Versteeg
- What I Saw, What I Heard, What I Didn't Hear: Comments from the Closing Plenary Session, by Rhonda Coats
- Reflections on Whiteness in the Classroom, by Gilda Sheppard and Carl Waluconis
- Creating a Socially Constructive Conflict Environment, by Sue Feldman and Lee Lambert
- Making Multiculturalism Come Alive at Pierce College: A Learning Institute, by Christine Martin and Agnes Steward
- A Question of Culture, by Sandy Campbell Cheek
- Untold Success Stories of Students of Color Project at Seattle Central Community College: A Project in Process, by Alejandro Tomas and others
- Supporting and Celebrating Our LGBT Students and Colleagues, by W. Houston Dougharty and Travis Greene
- Campus Climate for LGBT Folk: Can Safe Zones Warm the Chill? by Andrea Meld
- "Encountering Religious Commitments in the Classroom," by Lance Laird
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Alternative Visions of Mathematics Education, by Swapna Mukhopadhyay
- Encountering Religious Commitments in the Classroom, by Patricia O'Connell Killen
- Helping White Students Develop Anti-Racist Identities and Practices, by Lori Blewett
- Addressing LGBT Issues in Higher Education: A Report on the National Summit on LGBT Issues in Higher Education, NASPA Convention, Seattle, March 17, 2001, by Tara Prince-Hughes
- What Stays and What Goes? Evaluating the Writing of Non-native Speakers, by Robin Jeffers
- Temples of Science Replace Temples of Religion: Impact of Colonization on the Overall View and Study of History and Mathematics, by Rahael Jalan
- Math Across the Curriculum: Report on Work in Progress, by Rebecca Hartzler
- An Alternative to College Algebra: Visual Mathematics / Environmental Modeling for the Twenty-First Century, by Robert S. Cole
- Art Out of Torment: One Year Later, by Andrea Meld
- Place Poems: Including a Sense of Place in the Curriculum, by Susan Starbuck
- Can Institutions Change? by Tom Fox
- Toward a Culture of Enriched Learning: A Campus Change Project at Western Washington University, by Carmen Werder
- Excerpts from Exploiting the Reserve Army of Adjunct Part-Time Labor, by Gary Murrell
- Sankofa and Students' Voices: Engaged Learning, Activism and the Public Good, by Gillies Malnarich
- In Retrospect: 1996-2001 Excerpt from a faculty five year self-evaluation, by Willie L. Parson
- Math is for Everyone! by Vauhn Wittman-Grahler
- Climbing Out of the Well, by Liz Campbell, Minnie A. Collins and Greg Hinckley
- Developmental Students Experience Success in a Community College Writing Center, by Laura Purkey
- Toward Wholeness in Tribal Science Education, by Phillip H. Duran, Roberto Gonzalez-Plaza, Sharon Kinley, Ted Williams, Gigi Berardi, and Lynn Robbins
- Making Student Self-Assessment Work, by Robin Jeffers
- Teaching Critical Thinking from a Critical Pedagogy Stance, by Carmen Hoover and Heather Crandall
- Tackling the FIG Challenge: Using Developmental Theory and Pop Culture to Engage First-year Students, by Ann Carlson and Karen Casto
- The Limits of Individualism: Studying Anarchism with Anarchist Pedagogy, by Toby Smith
- Bridging Literature and Science with Sex, by Don Lucas and Barbara Griest-Devora
- Learning by Doing: Applied Anthropology and Praxis, by Arthur S. Keene
- Introducing Global Studies: Historical Concerns and Local Perspectives, by Wei Djao
- Local Knowledge in the Age of Globalization, by Anne Fischel and Lin Nelson
- Bob Moses Day Celebration Jackson, Mississippi, by Michael J. Pfeifer
- A Radical Idea—Or, how a civil rights leader inspired an interdisciplinary approach to learning quantitative concepts in real-world contexts, by Karen Casto
- Creating the Quilt of Quantitative Literacy, by Vauhn Wittman-Grahler, Karen Harding and Mary L. Russell
- Our Role as Educators, by Lori Blewett
- Teaching for Critical Multiculturalism, by Therese Saliba
- Valuing Every Voice: The Bilingual Education and Teaching Program at The Evergreen State College, by Evelia Romano
- The Gay–Straight Alliance at Whatcom Community College: A Student–Faculty Collaboration, by Tara Prince–Hughes, Kathy Seibert and Bree Herndon
- Crips in Class, by Marie Marquart, Lynette Y. Romero and Joli Sandoz
- Visible Border Crossers, by Catherine Crain-Thoreson and Debora Pontillo
- Fostering Critical Engagement in Online Discussions: The Washington State University Study, by Barbara Monroe
- Revision in a Collaborative Mode, by Kay Tronsen and Tony Schmidt
- Moving Beyond Text and Talk: The Tableau Performance Method, by Heather Dorsey and Mark Pedelty
- Creating a Reflective Space: The Teaching and Learning Academy at Western Washington University, by Carmen Werder, PJ Redmond, Jeff Purdue and Kathryn Patrick
- Putting an Asset–Based Perspective into Practice: The Collaborative Learning and Instruction Center at South Seattle Community College, by Shash Woods
- Becoming a "Public Homespace": The Homeless Women's Project at Antioch University Seattle, by Mary Lou Finley, Candace Harris and Carson Marshall
- Inaugurating an International Scholar-in-Residence Program: Bellevue Community College, by Diane Douglas
- Contributions of Immigrants in Education: A Report on Shoreline Community College's FIPSE Project, by Alexandra Hepburn, Victoria Lauber and Katherine Hunt
- The Washington Center's Curriculum Planning Retreats, by Sharilyn Howell
- What Have We Learned? Using the Curriculum Planning Retreat to Reflect on What We Learned, by Jenny McFarland
- A Collaboratively Designed Catalyst for Change: Introducing the Framework for Diversity Assessment and Planning, by Emily Lardner and Rhonda Coats
- Developing a Diversity Requirement: First Steps at South Puget Sound Community College, by Michael Beehler, Rhonda Coats, Steve Dickerson, Lisa Aguilera Lawrenson and Marcia Somer
- Remembering Rachel, by Anne Fischel and Lin Nelson
- Teaching Civic Engagement and Responsibility: A Year–long Seminar for Faculty, Staff, and Administrators, by Diane Douglas
- Confessions of Four Bibliophiles: Faculty Learn to Collaborate in Genuine Ways, by Susan Preciso, Joli Sandoz, Joe Tougas and Sandy Yannone
- Teaching With Your Mouth Shut: A Faculty Learning Community at Western Carolina University, by John Habel
- "Seeing the Unseen" at Belmont University: An Inquiry–Based Mathematics Workshop for Faculty, by Mike Pinter
- Faculty Mentoring Faculty on Quantitative Literacy: An Update from Pierce College, by Mary Russell, Karen Harding, David Lippman and Lynn Olson
- Emerging Trends in Learning Community Development, by Barbara Leigh Smith with others
- Learning Communities Growing in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, by Phyllis Worthy Dawkins
- Minority Student Enrollment and Multicultural Learning Communities at Purdue University, by Matthew D. Pistilli
- Building and Assessing a Learning Communities Program at Northeastern Illinois University, by Charles Pastors and David Leaman
- The South Seattle Community College Faculty Learning Community Project, by Sara Baldwin
- Students' Experience in Coordinated Studies: What Data on Learning Communities Reveals, by Jim Harnish
- Examining Media Literacy in Ways of Seeing: Insights from an Analysis of Students' Writing, by Carl Waluconis and Gilda Sheppard