Teaching and Learning Center

Learning Communities

Learning communities are powerful ways to deeply explore a topic or teaching practice in higher education. Though they’re sometimes referred to as “faculty learning communities,” they intentionally include both faculty and staff. Geneseo has a long tradition of using the learning community format to expand educational practices.

Learning communities are different from working groups, task forces, or committees. They include some or all of the following features:

  • small groups, typically between 6-12 participants
  • self-directed
  • action-oriented
  • focused time frames, usually 1 or 2 semesters
  • interdisciplinary participants

2026-27 TLC Learning Communities

Go DEEP: Dialogic Discovery to Design Courses Differently

Are you interested in 

  • Strengthening connections with students and colleagues?
  • Supporting engagement, belonging, and equity? 
  • Bringing a new energy into your interactions? 
  • Adding creative new dimensions to your work? 

If so, Go DEEP might be the Learning Community for you!

Go DEEP was created to explore and experiment with dialogically expansive education practices. This community will connect on and offline this fall.

Critical reflection and a love ethic will partner to catalyze creative intentionality.

Facilitated by Meredith Harrigan, Professor of Communication. 

Academic Integrity Issues in the GenAI Era

This community will consist of up to 10 Geneseo faculty and staff working together to better understand the relationship of academic integrity and generative AI. We will also collaborate regularly with cohorts at Stony Brook University and Suffolk Community College.

Participants will

  • Interact regularly in a shared Brightspace community
  • attend online synchronous sessions with Geneseo colleagues during the academic year
  • attend online summits with other participating SUNYs once per semester
  • complete surveys and participate in focus groups
  • record 30-second rapid fire videos to share a takeaway thought from the program

This learning community is supported by a SUNY Innovative Instruction Technology Grant (IITG). Faculty and staff participants will be eligible for a stipend for completing all community activities.

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