CLIP work is an intensive, new experience for most faculty members. Because of this, some CLIPs will need more assistance than others.

Your responsibility is to:

• encourage each CLIP to take initiative and be creative
• provide “just-in-time” help
• support community building

To provide “just-in-time” help, stay in regular contact with each of the CLIP facilitators to determine what help the CLIPs need. Perhaps they’ll need technical assistance, such as help with developing questionnaires or conducting focus groups. They may need to talk out an issue or to link up with a resource person. They may need an outside person. Such a person might be somebody on campus or part of the broader community who has the needed experience and can add new information and respond to questions. Be sure the resource person is able to work with the group on a peer-to-peer basis. To support community building, it’s important for CLIP members to break down any sense of hierarchy and respond to one another as peers.