September 27, 2018What Happens if Disagreement in Partnership is Unevenly Experienced?by Sophia Abbot This past January and February, my colleague and I launched research exploring the ways students and faculty in partnership can experience disagreement in generative ways that ultimately enhance their partnered relationship along with the broader goals of…
September 25, 2018Dan Bernstein on student-faculty partnershipby Ketevan Kupatadze Recently I was fortunate enough to have a conversation with Dr. Daniel Bernstein about his experience on partnering with students in the field of teaching and learning. In this blog, I summarize some of the most salient points…
September 18, 2018Seven Potential Barriers to Engaging in Undergraduate Research for HURMSby Buffie Longmire-AvitalThere is no shortage of evidence celebrating the advantages of engaging in undergraduate research or its firm position as one of the 11 high-impact educational practices, such as the building of confidence and efficacy in students, being cited as the…
September 11, 2018Relationships & Positionality in Undergraduate Peer Tutoringby Sophia Abbot As a former student partner in Bryn Mawr College’s Students as Learners and Teachers program (see: Kupatadze, 2018), when I began my professional staff position in educational development following graduation, I sought out students occupying similar in-between…
September 7, 2018Rhetoric in Writing Beyond the University Researchby Paula Rosinski At the 2018 Conference on College Composition and Communication, I heard a few speakers wonder if the research on knowledge generalization and transfer had given enough attention to the role rhetoric might play in such learning situations….
September 6, 2018Need for institutionalizing student-faculty partnershipby Ketevan Kupatadze Student-faculty partnership as an institutional practice is an integral part of (higher) education systems and, in my opinion, essential for student-faculty partnership success. It is very difficult to engage in student-faculty partnership in an environment in which it is…
September 2, 2018Call for Applications: Writing Beyond the UniversityThe Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University invites applications for the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency. The deadline to apply is November 12, 2018. Led by Julia Bleakney, Jessie L. Moore, and Paula Rosinski,…