A Faculty Learning Community (FLC) is a peer-led group of faculty members who engage in an active, collaborative, year-long program, structured to provide encouragement, support, and reflection. FLC members work together to produce outcomes or products about teaching and learning. Through FLCs, faculty members engage in scholarly teaching and student-centered learning, collaborating within a collegial framework that offers peer review and support.
FLCs meet once or twice a month for six or seven months across the academic year, and each community has two types of outcomes—individual changes to one's own practice, and a group "give back" to the larger UMKC teaching community. All UMKC faculty members - tenure track, tenured, and non-tenure-track -- are encouraged to participate in FLCs.
FLC's forming late October and concluding late April and will meet approximately 10 times synchronously by Zoom.
Faculty participants receive a stipend of $500 on completion of the learning community.
