LibraryC3 Cultural system3a Trust and communication between sending and receiving institutions
LTI-CUL-006
Pair faculty in cross-sector peer-to-peer learning partnerships
Two-year to four-yearappliesFour-year to two-yearwith adaptationFour-year to four-yearwith adaptation
Mechanism
Two faculty from the four-year college and two from the community college meet regularly as a pair. Common lower-division requirements get designed by people who trust each other rather than negotiated under administrative pressure.
Preconditions
Deans willing to count the hours as academic service.
Owner, by role
Independent College Association Project Lead / Academic Dean
Who can act
Both institutions jointly
Effort
Small, 3 months to first visible effect
Outcome metric
Common major pathways created in the target social science disciplines
Failure modes
Remote meetings or poor agenda coordination can cause peer interactions to drift into superficial checklist exercises.
Contra-indications
None stated
Related practices
- LTI-CUL-003 Convene annual full-day Academic Summits for cross-sector faculty relationship-building