Eventually, this web page will alert students to various specific ways they can gain from group learning at WISR--seminars, study groups, All-School Gatherings, and collaboration with other students on learning projects, among others.

For now, students are referred to the following quote from our current catalogue, which outlines some of the opportunities and expectations for student participation in WISR's learning community: "WISR recognizes that each student's learning can be greatly enriched by active collaboration with other students in exploring and documenting study areas that touch their personal and professional interests. Because WISR's program demands that individual students take major responsibility for defining and pursuing the study areas in their degree programs, collaboration among students is especially helpful in easing student's progress toward their degrees. All WISR students are strongly encouraged to collaborate, formally and informally, with other WISR students and/or alumni in formulating and carrying out their research inquiries, and in critiquing and supporting each other's intellectual and professional work. All students should consider such collaboration a part of their responsibility to themselves and to the WISR learning community as a whole. WISR faculty will help all students to develop collaborative learning relationships with other students through face-to-face meetings, seminars, telephone and Internet contacts, and written correspondence. Each PhD student is required to conduct at least one seminar at WISR during enrollment there, and students in other degree programs are encouraged to do this as well. Students living in the greater Bay Area are expected to attend most of the quarterly All School Gatherings, so that they may come to know other WISR students and become acquainted with their backgrounds and research interests. Students living outside the area should negotiate with their faculty advisers the periods and timing of their residencies at WISR, including at least one visit per year." (pp. 14-15)