What are Learning Communities?

Schreiner University’s learning communities seek to help students connect in a powerful and supportive way with others who share interests and goals. Students in learning communities work closely with peers, faculty, and professional staff who are unified by a desire to make connections and have experiences in and outside the classroom central to their education. The university offers Living and Learning Communities in which students live together in a reserved dorm wing or floor as well as Learning Communities which do not entail a residential component.

Why Should I Join a Learning Community?

Students who take part in learning communities typically maintain higher GPA’s and graduate in a timelier fashion. They are more connected to the university, their faculty, and their peers. Students in Learning Communities are usually highly motivated to be successful in college, more involved on campus, make more responsible choices about their overall health and well-being, and have the opportunity to make lifelong friends. Each Schreiner University learning community is led by kind and caring faculty members — ones carefully selected because of their own passions about their learning community — who want their students to truly thrive during their college experience.