Out-of-class faculty interaction with students in active-learning communities enhances students’ intellectual and personal development, as well as their overall evaluation of their undergraduate experience.

• Improved academic achievement and quality of effort/persistence
• Leadership, programming, research, and peer teaching experience
• Knowledge of research and publications across the disciplines
• Opportunities for informal faculty mentorship and advising
• Faculty perspectives on current events and campus issues
• Integration into broader intellectual community on campus

• Engage students outside the classroom
• Pique the interest of first-year students in your discipline or field
• Raise student awareness of your courses, as well as departmental and college minors and majors
• Share your research and expertise with first-year students
• Model exemplary teaching, discourse, and debate
• Network with UO colleagues and foster interdisciplinary connections with faculty from sister institutions as well as community organizations
• Participate in a dynamic learning community that supports creative education and co-curriculum
• Ultimately, student-centered, residential living-learning communities complement the pedagogical models of the classroom, and enable faculty to reinforce the development of higher-order cognitive skills from the classroom, such as critical thinking, problem solving, source analysis, quantitative reasoning, inquiry-based research, and dialogic learning.