About Us

The RAP learning community began in 2017 with membership from the seven Arts and Sciences Residential Academic Programs. Our Faculty Learning Community (FLC) aims to build community and connections among faculty from all Arts and Sciences RAPs. The primary goal of the community is to create cohesion and connection between individual RAPs, align individual program learning goals with ARPAC learning goals, develop appropriate assessment measures, and investigate evidence-based teaching and learning practices. In 2018/2019, we also began working with the Teaching Quality Framework initiative on campus in order to explore creating a more unified structure for the assessment of teaching within the RAPs. Further, by engaging in these activities, the current sense of rigor and teaching excellence in our programs is strengthened, becomes more cohesive, and is collectively communicated and continuously cultivated in this community.