Although student-faculty partnership is a relatively new concept, there’s a growing international interest in the topic, demonstrated by publications such as Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching (2014) by Alison Cook-Sather, Catherine Bovill, and Peter Felten, as well…

Dawn Whitehead (AAC&U) presented the closing keynote at the Center for Engaged Learning Symposium on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience: Higher Impact Study Abroad and Off-Campus Domestic Study on June 12, 2017. Watch her talk here: How to…

by Matthew Buckmaster and Nina Namaste The 2016 AAC&U Global Learning Conference in Denver, Colorado, last October, provided multiple opportunities to see how the CEL Seminar on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience is in conversation with broader global learning research….

In an earlier blog post, we introduced the Service-Learning and Community Engagement Future Directions Project (SLCE-FDP). We invited you to join this learning community and contribute your own thinking in response to the questions: What is your vision for the…

Compiled by Patti H. Clayton We are co-educators. That is not our organization’s bottom line, but that’s what we do. [SLCE community partner] This blog post will be a bit different than the others in this series, less an essay and…

We have to keep striving, not only towards fulfilling the hope that all students will become active citizens, but the intention that they will be active citizens, that they will be committed to changing their own lives and the lives of those…

A decade ago, research suggested that, when it came to graduate education, colleges and universities focused more on disciplinary knowledge than civic engagement, despite the emphasis on the latter at the undergraduate level (Stanton & Wagner, 2006). Graduate students in…

by Nina Namaste As part of the second meeting of the Center’s research seminar on Integrating Global Learning with the University Experience, CEL director Jessie Moore led the participants and co-leaders through an activity similar to Stephen Brookfield’s Truth Statements…

What is your vision for the future of SLCE? Why? What must we particularly attend to in order to support the flourishing of the work in this direction? An initiative we are particularly excited about is the Service-Learning and Community…

Throughout these blog posts we use the term “practitioner-scholar” to refer to anyone who partners in SLCE with a spirit of inquiry; connects their practice, learning, and curiosity with others; and thereby advances knowledge and practice. “Practice” in SLCE includes…