Do you know how to transform your students into self-regulated learners? If not, I encourage you to attend the Lunch+Learn on October 5 at noon in the Dining Hall's private dining room. If you do know, we want you to come as well and share your experiences with the rest of us. Did you know that student peer assessment allows students to get more varied, immediate and frequent feedback, feel their input is valued, helps to build critical thinking skills and usually produces better student work? Come and discuss the techniques you can use to teach your students about self-assessment at the Lunch+Learn on Wednesday. For those of you who are participating in the LU journaling program, remember that we will be holding our monthly discussion group on Thursday, October 6 at 2:00 PM in 621 MJGL. Critical self reflection helps you to achieve results especially when you share your results. Allie Grasgreen wrote an interesting story about the sophomore slump and what some institutions are doing to curtail its effect. Students reported poor or undeveloped peer-to-peer relationships as one of the biggest reasons for withdrawing in a survey taken at Pace University. We are putting the final pieces in place for the Faculty Learning Communities for Academic Year 2011-12. The next step is to hold training for the leadership. After that, the FLC will begin to meet and set goals for the year. Get ready for the community of scholars at LU to become energized.