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Living Learning Communities: Resource Guide

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Welcome to the Living Learning Communities Resource Guide. All resources are available through WKU Libraries. 

Books: Living Learning Communities & Student Success

Barkley, Elizabeth. (2010). Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty. San Francisco: Jossey-Banks.
Evans, N. J., Forney, D. S., Guido, F. M., & Renn, K. A. (2010). Student development in college: Theory, research, and practice. (2nd ed.). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Fleming, J. (2012). Enhancing minority student retention and academic performance: What we can learn from program evaluations. New York: Jossey-Bass.
Hoidn, S. (2017). Student-centered learning environments in higher education classrooms. New York: Palgrave Macmillin.
Inkelas, K. (2018). Living learning communities that work: A research-based model for design, delivery, and assessment. Sterling, VA: Stylus
Lenning, O. (2013). Powerful learning communities: a guide to developing student, faculty, and professional learning communities to improve student success and organizational effectiveness. Sterling, Va: Stylus Pub.
Schmidt, L. ed. (2016). Building synergy for high-impact educational initiatives: first-year seminars and learning communities. Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition.
Shapiro, N. S., & Levine, J. H. (1999). Creating learning communities: A practical guide to winning support, organizing for change, and implementing programs. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Smith, B.L., MacGregor, J., Matthews, R.S., & Gabelnick, F. & Associates (2004). Learning communities: Reforming undergraduate education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
 

Journal Articles: Living Learning Communities

Bauer, R., & Susan, K. (2017). Nursing living-learning communities and student retention: A qualitative study. Nursing Education Perspectives, 38(2), 75-79.
Brower, A. M., & Inkelas, K. K. (2010). Living-learning programs: One high-impact education practice we now know a lot about. Liberal Education. 96(2), 36-43.
Devlin, A. S., Donavan, S., Nicolov, A., Nold, O., & Zandan, G. (2008). Residence hall architecture and sense of community: Everything old is new again. Environment and Behavior. 40(4), 487-521. Doi: 10.1177/0013916507301128
Doyle, J., Wheelis, M., Thompson, L., Strietzel, J. (2019). The impact of living-learning program scholarships on scholarship recipients. Journal of student affairs research and practice, 56)2), 221-234.
Gonyea, B., Fosnacht, K., & Fassett, K. (2020, Oct. 14). Revisiting the impact of living-learning communities on student engagement and success [Conference session]. ACUHO-I Academic Initiatives Conference, Virtual.
Hurtado, S. S. , Gonyea, R. M. , Graham, P. A. , Fosnacht, K. (2020). The relationship between residential learning communities and student engagement. Learning Communities Research and Practice, 8(1).
Inkelas, K. K., Daver, Z. E., Vogt, K. E., & Leonard, J. (2007). Living-learning programs and first-generation college students’ academic and social transition to college. Research in Higher Education. 48 (4), 403-434.
Inkelas, K. K., Vogt, K. E., Longerbeam, S. D., Owen, J., & Johnson, D. (2006). Measuring outcomes of living-learning programs: Examining college environments and student learning and development. The Journal of General Education. 55(1), 40-76.
Inkelas, K., Soldner, M., Longerbeam, & S., Leonard, J. (2008). Difference in student outcomes by types of living-learning programs: The development of an empirical typology. Research in Higher Education. 49(6), 495-512.
Longerbeam, S. D., & Sedlacek, W. E. (2006). Attitudes toward diversity and living-learning outcomes among first-and second-year college students. NASPA Journal. 43(1), 40-55.
Pasque, P. A., & Murphy, R. (2005). The intersections of living-learning programs and social identity as factors of academic achievement and intellectual engagement. Journal of College Student Development. 46(4), 429-441.
Petracchi, H. E., Weaver, A., Engel, R. J., Kolivoski, K. M., & Das, Rachelle. (2010). An assessment of service learning in a university living-learning community: Implications for community engagement. Journal of Community Practice. 18(2/3), 252-266.
Purdie II, J. R., & Rosser, V. J. (2011). Examining the academic performance and retention of first-year students in living-learning communities and first-year experience courses. College Student Affairs Journal. 29(2), 95-112.
Rowan-Kenyon, H., Soldner, M., & Inkelas, K. K. (2007). The contributions of living-learning programs on developing sense of civic engagement in undergraduate students. NASPA Journal. 44(4), 750-778.
Soldner, Rowan-Kenyon. (2012). Supporting students’ intentions to persist in STEM disciplines: The role of living-learning programs among other social-cognitive factors. The Journal of higher education 83(3), 311–336.
Spanierman, L., et al. (2013). Living learning communities and students' sense of community and belonging. Journal of student affairs research and practice, 50(3), 308-325.
Strothmann, M., & Antell, K. (2010). The live-in librarian: Developing library outreach to university residence halls. Reference & User Services Quarterly. 50(1), 48-58. Retrieved from http://www.rusq.org/
Szelényi, K., & Inkelas, K. (2011). The role of living-learning programs in women’s plans to attend graduate school in STEM fields. Research in Higher Education. 52(4), 349-369.
Wawrzynski, M. R., & Jessup-Anger, J. E. (2010). From expectations to experiences: Using a structural typology to understand first-year student outcomes in academically based living-learning communities. Journal of College Development. 51(2), 201-217.
Wawrzynski, M. R., Jessup-Anger, J. E., & Stolz, K. (2009). Exploring students perceptions of academically based living-learning communities. College Student Affairs Journal. 28(1), 138-158.
Weiss, M., Visher, M., Weissman, E., & Wathington, H. (2015). The impact of learning communities for students in developmental education: A synthesis of findings from randomized trials at six community colleges. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 37(4), 520-541.

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