July 25, 2019Elon University Center for Engaged Learning Statement on Residential Learning Communities as a High-Impact PracticeBy Mimi Benjamin, Jody Jessup-Anger, Shannon Lundeen, and Cara Lucia Download a printer-friendly [PDF] copy of the Elon Statement on Residential Learning Communities Twenty scholars participated in the Center for Engaged Learning research seminar on Residential Learning Communities (RLCs) as…
July 16, 2019Tackling Inequitable Opportunity Structures in HIPsby Buffie Longmire-AvitalAs of 2017, 41- 43% of full-time undergraduates who are between the ages of 16 – 24 – and who are not considered heads of households or supporting dependents – are working. When comparing the rates of employment for these…
July 11, 2019Studying Alumni Writingby Paula Rosinski and Julia BleakneyIn this blog, one in a series on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, we review the motivations, questions, methods, and populations of four studies that examined alumni…
June 5, 2019New Research Methods to Study Writing Beyond the Universityby Julia Bleakney and Paula RosinskiIn this blog, one in a series on topics connected to the 2019-2021 research seminar on Writing Beyond the University: Fostering Writers’ Lifelong Learning and Agency, we explore new possibilities for research methods that can be used to study writing…
May 16, 2019TLTHE Special Issue on Partnerships as Experienced by Studentsby Ketevan Kupatadze In this post I focus on Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education (TLTHE)’s recently published issue entirely dedicated to student perspectives on pedagogical partnerships. As student-faculty partnership becomes part of institutional teaching and learning cultures around…
May 14, 2019Salient Practices of Mentoring Undergraduate Research [in Writing]by Eric Hall, Hannah Bellwoar, and Sophia AbbotBased on an extensive review of literature on Undergraduate Research mentoring, Jenny Olin Shanahan, Elizabeth Ackley-Holbrook, Eric Hall, Kearsley Stewart, and Helen Walkington (2015) identified ten salient practices of mentoring that offer undergraduate researchers intellectual, personal/emotional, and professional socialization support….
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…
