The first product of a three-year-long Faculty Learning Community project

I am so proud to announce the publication of “The Art of Designing a Curriculum Optimized for Learning Transfer” in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning. This is the first article published by Pratt’s interdisciplinary Transfer of Learning Faculty Learning Community (aka the “Transfer FLC”). I got to spend the last three years working with Brian Brooks, Keena Suh, Chris Wynter (@chriswynterart), and Allegra Marino Shumulevsky on the problem of how to enable our students to better transfer what they have learned throughout their Pratt education and then into their post-Pratt careers. We didn’t just get to learn about the kinds of learning that each of us provide to our students: we also got to engage over thirty of our colleagues in a series of “Transfer Sessions” that allowed faculty to share their teaching approaches with colleagues from other disciplines. This article describes the Transfer Sessions Project and some of the early insights that emerged from our efforts. Beyond being excited to see our work get out into the world, I am just so honored to have a publication with Chris, Keena, Allegra, and Brian as co-authors. Our warm and loving team is forever enshrined in the academic literature! Special thanks are due to Heather Lewis (who advocated for us tirelessly as our FLC coordinator), Vice Provost Donna Heiland (who supported our FLC generously), and Change Editor David Paris (who was invaluable in bringing our manuscript into final form).