May 8, 2019A High Impact Federal Work-Study Appointmentby Buffie Longmire-AvitalI was a working learner. Working learners refer to students who need to work. In a 2015 report from Georgetown’s Center on Education and the Workforce, Carneval, Smith, Melton and Price found that approximately 40% of all undergraduates are working…
April 24, 2019Improving Quality of Scholarship through Effective MentorshipBy Eric Hall Early one morning a few weeks ago, I was perusing LinkedIn because I was having trouble falling back to sleep after one of my children woke up early and needed consoling. While I was scrolling through my…
April 10, 2019Partnership and mentorship at scale: A matter of inclusionby Sophia Abbot The reality of intensive pedagogical partnership programs is that there will always be more willing and capable students than there is room to partner. On a mathematical level, this makes sense. There are far fewer faculty at…
March 19, 2019Pedagogical Partnerships: Transformational or Institutional Change?by Sophia Abbot and Ketevan KupatadzeAs instructional partnerships continue to develop, we wonder: (How) might partnership be embraced as an ethos and culture within the institution of higher education, while continuing to push on the traditionalist fabric of these institutions? We see a tension between…
March 7, 2019What’s Their Capital? Applying a Community Cultural Wealth Model to URby Buffie Longmire-AvitalSteeped in critical race theory (CRT), Yosso’s (2005) work presents a helpful framework for recognizing the capital that HURMS bring to a mentored relationship, more specifically the undergraduate research (UR). In applying CRT, Yosso expands the default assumptions around cultural…
March 4, 2019Recognizing Student Capital in Mentored Undergraduate Researchby Buffie Longmire-AvitalThere are numerous articles, studies, and discussion pieces outlining the benefits of the undergraduate research (UR) experience for students. For example, Madan and Teitge (2013) suggest that UR amplifies the knowledge gained by the student in the classroom. They also…
February 27, 2019Institutional Leaders’ and Administrators’ Take on Students as Partnersby Ketevan Kupatadze As I continue to think of the ways to implement Students as Partners (SaP) pedagogy at various institutional levels, I found the recently published study by Matthews, Dwyer, Russell & Enright (2018), “It is a complicated thing:…
February 18, 2019Center for Engaged Learning seeks Managing EditorThe Center for Engaged Learning is hiring. The Managing Editor oversees the Center’s ongoing publishing operations, including two book series, to produce peer-reviewed publications on engaged learning that feature work from the Center’s research seminars and think tanks, along with other…
February 5, 2019What We Love: Student Motivations for Engaging in SoTLby Sophia Abbot Student involvement at ISSOTL is growing. As a newly elected member of the ISSOTL Board, I serve as a student representative in conversations about the society’s growth and strategic planning, as well as about SoTL more broadly….
January 29, 2019Student-staff partnership as collective curricular activism in curriculum liberation effortsby Lucy Mercer-Mapstone Much of higher education is undeniably patriarchal, cis-gendered, heterosexual, and white. As a reader (and statistically speaking in academic circles, probably a straight, cis, white and/or male reader), this is probably an uncomfortable acknowledgement to make. I…