Your LU team has been hard at work learning how to create and facilitate faculty learning communities (FLCs). In the process, we have made a number of great contacts. Not only will this network help us as we move forward but we are hoping that we develop friendships that will benefit us for years to come. People like the team from Greenville Technical College in South Carolina, including Sara Catoe, Susan Couch, and Chuck Shaw, have engaged with us about a number of topics that will help us to continue to improve the CT+LE. Our neighbor to the North, Tara Newman of Stephen F. Austin State University, spent some quality time with us discussing QEP strategies. We also enjoyed hearing about the unique programs that are occurring at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. The team, including Joanne Brown, Lisa Christy, Vernie Clement, Tom Dickinson, Ginny Ratsoy, and Shane Rollans, even included us in their dinner plans this evening which allowed us to talk shop a little longer. The "home" team at my table included Sara Catoe (GTC), Lisa Christy (TRU), Alfred Mbah (USF), June Millovich (Saddleback College), and Michael Willard (CSU-Los Angeles) and their insight and advice have been extremely beneficial throughout this terrific institute. As we put the final touches on our penultimate presentation for tomorrow, it became very apparent that we have been greatly enriched and are determined to create FLCs that will allow LU to continue to improve and to meet the needs of our students. Looking forward to returning home to Texas tomorrow. Hopefully the flight situation will go smoothly.