Communities of Practice

Faculty learning communities

A faculty learning community (FLC) provides a space for faculty members to collaborate in a professional environment to work toward a common goal through collective responsibility, accountability, and progress. With collaboration and partnerships, FLCs engage members in scholarly teaching, shared learning, and reflection to further integrate community-engaged pedagogy in their learning initiatives.

The Center for Service and Learning has offered past communities of practice to support faculty and staff promoting service learning and civic engagement throughout the IU Indianapolis campus. Learn more about our current and past communities of practice below.

Current communities of practice

The Integrating Community-Engaged Learning through Ethical Reflection (ICELER) faculty learning community is part of a five-year grant (2018–2023) funded by the National Science Foundation led by researchers in the STEM Innovation Education Research Institute, the Center for Service and Learning, and Purdue University's School of Engineering Education.

Past communities of practice

Public Scholarship Faculty Learning Community

In 2015, the public scholarship faculty learning community was formed to focus on public scholarship for scholarly work and to explore how to cultivate faculty research agendas around engaged and public scholarship.

Faculty Learning Community on Service Learning Taxonomy

In 2017–18, CSL convened a faculty learning community focused on utilizing the IUPUI (now IU Indianapolis) service learning taxonomy.

Boyer Scholars

Influenced by the work of the late Ernest L. Boyer, the Boyer Scholars Faculty Development Program demonstrated IU Indianapolis’s commitment to excellence.