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Rowan University has several learning communities to assist freshmen with adjusting academically and socially and to increase persistence to graduation. Consider applying to one of these exciting and interesting learning communities at Rowan.

What is a learning community?

A learning community is a living and learning first- to four-year experience that aims to support students in a higher education learning environment to increase their satisfaction, adjustment, and persistence to graduation.

Learning communities at Rowan have been designed to meet the specific needs of the students for whom they were created. The underlying theme of all communities is linked courses in which the learning community students are registered. Linked courses increase students' exposure to one another and assist with building community. The resulting increased interaction between students helps them to meet and know one another, learn in a comfortable engaging classroom environment, and work together in and out of the classroom.

Learning communities can be designed to

• Increase student satisfaction freshman through senior year. They are most often designed to support the freshman year experience.
• Provide opportunities for students to meet and get to know one another.
• Assist students in adjusting socially and academically to the University
• Provide relevant and continual information about campus services, policies, procedures, and opportunities.
• Increase students' self-awareness and exploration of their major and related occupations.
• Register students for two or more paired courses each semester.
• Provide peer mentors for increased student contact.

Rowan University has the following living/learning communities:

• For Art Majors (fall 2008) - contact Susan Bowman at 856-256-4019 or bowman@rowan.edu
• For Biology Majors - to find out more about the "Bio Connection" Learning Community contact Dr. Luke Holbrook at 856-256-4834 or holbrook@rowan.edu.
• For Communication Radio/TV/Film majors - contact Dr. Joseph Bierman at 856-256-4289 or bierman@rowan.edu.
• For Computer Science majors - Visit the LiBBy Learning Community website. For more information please contact Dr. John Robinson or Debra Coughlin at 856-256-4805 or email robinsonj@rowan.edu.
• For History majors – Visit the Community of Learning in Operation (CLIO) Learning Community website . CLIO is a two-year learning community; contact Dr. William Carrigan at 856-256-4818 or carrigan@rowan.edu
• For Mathematics majors - contact Dr. Ron Czocher at 856-256-4845 or czocher@rowan.edu.
• For Undeclared Students - visit the Visions of the Future Learning Community website; contact Dr. Joanne Damminger at 856-256-4453 or damminger@rowan.edu.