Learning...

• is what we strive to achieve; it is what we care about deeply. It is our mission, our common purpose.
  
• means increasing the capacity of our students, our employees and our organization to achieve the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that will enable success.
  
• is about solving problems and creating opportunities.
  
• is relevant and meaningful, deep vs surface, integrative, transformative, developmental, holistic, lifelong and long-lasting.
  
• includes three dimensions:
  Student, Employee and Organizational - See Below

Taken and adapted from PVCC EOL "Learning at PVCC" website (cited below), by R. Sheets, as both a founding member and now co-chair of PVCC's EOL Team.

The "Three Dimensions of Learning" are grounded in theories of constructivism, metacognition, experiential learning, student development, professional development, and organizational development.

• Student Learning includes all learning that occurs in and out of the formal classroom, real and virtual, and in any college-related environments and activities. Thus, in addition to formal instruction, every department and college-related activity can focus on how it improves and contributes to student learning.
  
• Staff Learning includes that which occurs through the job and through college or organization-related activities. It also includes formal and informal professional development workshops, training, and forums; tutor training; and staff development opportunities. It enables our faculty, staff, and administrators to grow and develop new skills and insights.
  
• Organizational Learning facilitates and links the transfer of individual and group learning to enhance the way our colleges or organizations function. Organizational learning leads to the creation of systems (policies, procedures and structures) that encourage and support learning in all three dimensions.

Taken and adapted from PVCC EOL "Learning at PVCC" website (cited below), by R. Sheets, as both a founding member and now co-chair of PVCC's EOL Team.

Celebrating 40 years of Learning:
WCRA/WCRLA/CRLA

• WCRA: Western College Reading Association
  was born at one-thirty A.M., the Saturday before Thanksgiving, 1966, in room 202 of the then Holiday Inn, San Bernardino, California. It was at a time when colleges and universities were first struggling with equal access, open doors, and the new notion that the institution had a responsibility beyond imparting facts. This new responsibility included providing assistance so that capable students who had been admitted to college could actually reach their goals.
  
• WCRLA: Western College Reading and Learning Association. In 1978, after many years of deliberation and discussion, the membership finally voted to expand its name from Western College Reading Association to Western College Reading and LEARNING Association. It was a gesture to welcome the many professionals from writing, learning assistance, tutorial programs, mathematics, developmental studies, counseling, etc. who were finding our conferences beneficial to their professional development.
  
• CRLA: College Reading and Learning Association. The organization's name was changed in 1989 to CRLA. Some members in other areas of the country had difficulty receiving funding or permission to attend a organization's conference with a different regional description in the name. Although there was sentimental angst about dropping "Western" from the name, the membership recognized the increasing number of members from the "Midwest" and the "Eastern" United States who joined the conference and the organization each year.