July 19, 2018The heart of engaged learning: What students do and thinkby Peter FeltenHerbert Simon, one of the most influential American academics of the 20th century, succinctly described the micro-level of student engagement: “Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher…
July 17, 2018Reflections on our experiences with partnership on course (re)designby Lucia Maribel Craige, Erin Jenkins, and Ketevan KupatadzeFollowing our recent experience with student-faculty partnership on course (re)design, we offer some thoughts on the process, its purpose, its benefits, and some of the risks involved. Throughout several future blog posts, we – Lucia, Erin, and Ketevan – reflect…
July 12, 2018The Critical Space of Underrepresented Minority Studentsby Buffie Longmire-AvitalIn the fall of 2015 protests erupted on many of the Nation’s elite and flagship public universities. When I think about this tumultuous time on college campuses, I immediately remember the picture of two collegiate Black males from the University…
July 5, 2018Partnership with students: an example and lessons learnedby Ketevan KupatadzeTo put words into action, this past semester (spring of 2018) I decided to partner with students to design and redesign courses that I will be teaching next academic year. I chose two very different courses: a first-year honors course…
June 26, 2018Compositional Diversity Is A Start But Not Enough!by Buffie Longmire-AvitalTwenty years ago in the darkness of an incredibly early August morning, I hugged my mother goodbye, loaded the last box in my aunt’s car, took my position in the passenger seat, and started the eight hour drive from Boston…
June 14, 2018Reflections on the “Messaging” of Student-Faculty Partnershipsby Ketevan KupatadzeThe following reflection was provoked by my personal experience not long ago. When enthusiastically pointing out the very transformative nature of student-faculty partnerships, I was confronted with surprising skepticism and uncertainty from my listeners. It made me go back and…
June 7, 2018Student-Faculty Partnership as Service Learningby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this post, I consider Lesnick and Cook-Sather’s (2010) proposition that we recognize student-faculty partnerships as a form of service learning through its promise to develop and enhance civic engagement and civic capacity on university campuses. Undoubtedly, service learning is…
June 1, 2018Student-Faculty Partnership as Cosmopolitan Practiceby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog post I reflect on a recently published chapter “Ethics of Academic Leadership: Guiding Learning and Teaching” by Cook-Sather and Felten that appeared in an edited volume titled Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Academic Leadership in Higher Education (2017). The…
May 15, 2018Conceptions of Students as Partners: Australian Perspectiveby Ketevan KupatadzeIn this blog post, I discuss a recently published article by Matthews et al. (2018) in which the authors have studied the perspectives of students and faculty in Australia engaged in partnerships on pedagogical issues. The article raises some important…
March 19, 2018Student-Faculty Partnerships at Diverse Colleges and Universitiesby Ketevan KupatadzeFollowing Bryn Mawr/Haverton Colleges’ example and leadership, several other colleges in the U.S. started establishing and promoting student-faculty partnership programs in recent years. Some of these are Smith College, Lewis and Clark, Oberlin, Reed, Brigham Young University and Ursinus Colleges….