Dear cni-announce subscribers:

I have been involved with PKAL and their excellent workshops on learning spaces for many years. CNI is a partner in the newly formed PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory and I am a member of the Advisory Board. Please see the announcement below for a series of webinars and an in-person workshop. I will be speaking at the October 20 webinar and at the in-person workshop. Hope you can participate in one or more of these fee-based events. --Joan Lippincott

Building on a foundation of almost two decades of PKAL activities related to facilities planning, we announce a new initiative, The PKAL Learning Spaces Collaboratory. This new initiative complements the ongoing work of Project Kaleidoscope, now in partnership with AAC&U, in facilitating efforts of leaders taking responsibility for transforming institutional policies, practices, and programs to ensure robust learning in STEM fields for all American undergraduates.

A description of the goals of the collaboratory, current members of the steering and advisory committees, as well as collaborating partners can be found at: http://www.pkal.org/activities/PKALLearningSpacesCollaboratory.cfm

We also present information about two upcoming PKAL LSC activities:

· 2010 PKAL LSC Webinars http://www.pkal.org/documents/2010LSCWebinars.cfm

· 2010 PKAL National Colloquium: What We Know About Planning Learning Spaces and What We Still Need to Know November 5 - 7, 2010 at the Westfields Marriott, Chantilly, Virginia – near Dulles Airport http://www.pkal.org/activities/PKALLearningSpacesCollaboratoryNationalColloquium.cfm