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….
February 15, 2018Bryn Mawr College’s Experience with Partnershipby Ketevan KupatadzeBryn Mawr College’s Teaching and Learning Institute (TLI) developed a student-faculty partnership program, “Students as Learners and Teachers” (SaLT), that has been successfully running and expanding since 2006. TLI’s initial goal, when it was part of a larger initiative that…
January 22, 2018SoTL Data ArchiveThe Center for Engaged Learning invites scholars to contribute data sets to the new, curated Center for Engaged Learning Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Data Archive (CEL-SoTL). About the CEL-SoTL Data Archive The Center created the data archive to facilitate additional…
January 22, 2018Integrating Off-Campus Global Learning with the University ExperienceAssociation of American Colleges and Universities 2018 Meeting | Washington, D.C. | January 25, 2018 | 4:15 – 5:30 PM Speakers: Jessie L. Moore (jmoore28@elon.edu), Director, Center for Engaged Learning, Elon University Amanda Sturgill, Associate Professor of Communications, Elon University Katia…
January 16, 2018Student-Faculty Partnerships at McMaster Universityby Ketevan KupatadzeIn my next few blog posts my intention is to feature several higher education institutions that have been at the forefront of student-faculty partnerships with the intention of identifying some of the successful practices within this pedagogy, as well as…