December 6, 2018Students as Partners at ISSOTL 2018by Sophia Abbot and Ketevan Kupatadze Students as Partners (SaP) had a major presence at the 2018 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference in Bergen, Norway, this past October. Twenty of the 247 conference sessions,…
December 4, 2018Diverse and Alternative Ways of Partnering in SoTLby Ketevan KupatadzeAs I continue talking with my colleagues about student-faculty partnerships, whether in formal or more informal conversations, one recurring theme emerges: what does partnership look like in practice? My observations have taught me that a) most faculty immediately think of…
November 28, 2018A Continuum of Research: Assistants, Partners, and Undergraduate Researchersby Sophia AbbotOne of the most powerful experiences of my undergraduate career was spending a summer writing and researching with Dr. Alison Cook-Sather. While the official job title was “research assistant,” I was doing much more than supporting Dr. Cook-Sather’s ongoing work…
November 15, 2018The Art of Crafting a Mentored CUREby Buffie Longmire-AvitalIn my last post, I argued that course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) can be a stepping stone for a student’s path toward mentored undergraduate research, but to yield equitable impact for historically underrepresented minority students (HURMS), CUREs must include mentorship…
November 1, 2018Practices for High Quality Undergraduate Research Mentoringby Eric HallUndergraduate research (UR) has been called a high impact practice because of its importance in student engagement and success (Kuh, 2008). To achieve these benefits, high quality mentoring is necessary, however little research has investigated this UR mentoring. In an…
October 30, 2018Lessons from Peer Tutoring Towards Mentoring Undergraduate Researchby Sophia Abbot As I’ve reflected on the findings of my recent collaborative research and subsequent blog post on peer tutoring, I’ve begun to consider ways lessons from that work might inform practices in other student-instructor relationships. What I mean…
October 25, 2018Reflecting on Course-Based Undergraduate Research (CUREs)by Buffie Longmire-AvitalBangera and Brownell (2014) lay out a compelling list of barriers students encounter while attempting to engage in undergraduate research. The authors also argue that, given the institutional nature of some of these barriers (e.g., implicit bias or lack of…
October 22, 2018Writing Beyond the University in Self-Sponsored Writing Contextsby Paula RosinskiMy first blog post examined broadly the role rhetorical considerations—like audience, writer, genre/text, and context—might play in writing beyond the university research. In this second blog post, I focus on the kinds of writing that happen in the more narrowly…
October 16, 2018Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Claire Lockard and maggie castor on Student-Faculty Partnershipsby Ketevan Kupatadze Recently I was extremely fortunate to have a conversation with Dr. Stephen Bloch-Shulman and then undergraduate, but now graduate students, Claire Lockard and maggie castor, about their experiences with partnership in teaching and learning. Stephen, maggie, and Claire have…
October 11, 2018Lifespan Writing and Writing Beyond the Universityby Julia Bleakney In this blog, one in a series of blogs on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, I explore the recently-developed research collaboration on “lifespan writing,”…