December 15, 2025Rapid Responses: Mentorship, Part 1by Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 4, Episode 4 Participants from the Center for Engaged Learning’s research seminar on Mentoring Meaningful Learning Experiences were invited to share their responses to several mentoring related questions. Karina Hamamouche (Butler University), Alexis Hart (Allegheny…
November 25, 2025The Connected Campus: How Space Shapes Relationship-Rich Learning by Shannon DowlingAt Elon University, relationship-rich learning is more than a pedagogical philosophy—it’s a lived, spatial reality. The campus itself feels like a conversation starter. Known for its commitment to high-impact practices and deeply engaged faculty-student relationships, Elon has created a physical environment that fosters belonging, curiosity, and connection. From…
November 17, 2025Student Scholar Perspectives on Mentoring Relationshipsby Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 4, Episode 3 In this episode, guests Azul Bellot and Tiffanie Grant, both Center for Engaged Learning Student Scholars at Elon University, share how mentorship has shaped their confidence, sense of belonging, and academic journeys….
September 15, 2025Not Just a Cup of Coffee: Why Mentoring Mattersby Matt WittsteinLimed: Teaching with a TwistSeason 4, Episode 1 In this kickoff to our new season, we explore the heart of mentorship in higher education. Guests Titch Madzima, Sabrina Perkins, and Maureen Vandermass-Peeler share personal stories of the mentors who shaped…
September 2, 2025Tell the Robot How You Feel About Learning by Amanda SturgillIn many ways, AI assistance can be helpful with writing, but one that has never made sense to me is asking AI to help formulate an opinion. I occasionally see this from students when I ask them what they think…
August 26, 2025Mentoring LGBTQ+ Students, Part 1: Considerations for All Mentors by Sabrina L. Perkins, Azul Bellot, and Megan Parks For many students, attending a residential college is the first time they have lived away from home. During this time, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-, and queer (LGBTQ+) students may have increased opportunities to explore, and even freedom to be public…
July 11, 2025Publishing as Community-Building by Sophia Sta. RosaWriting has always seemed like some mystical, enigmatic force to me. As a child, I used to read my favorite books and watch my friends develop elaborate creative writing pieces of their own, and I would wonder how such inspiration…
May 1, 2025The Role of Trust in Peer Support Programsby Jessie L. Moore60-Second SoTL – Episode 57 This episode features an open access article exploring how peer support initiatives can facilitate meaningful relationships and sense of belonging when they attend to social connection, shared experience and culture, and interpersonal trust: Hamshire, Claire, Mimi…
December 13, 2024“What Works” When Building Educational Relationships? by Kassidy Puckett and Peter Felten As we noted in our previous post in this two-part analysis (Puckett and Felten 2024), student-faculty and student-student relationships contribute significantly to learning, motivation, identity development, well-being, and graduation rates in higher education (Felten and Lambert 2020). The positive effects…
December 10, 2024Mentoring in a Constellation: Supervisors and Mentors of Student Employeesby Jessie L. Moore, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, and Tim PeeplesIn our 2020 institutional survey on mentoring, fourth-year students identified on-campus student employment as the fifth most common experience that prepared them to connect with potential mentors. Supervisors of student employees offer a dynamic example of meaningful relationships that can…
