February 27, 2019Institutional Leaders’ and Administrators’ Take on Students as Partnersby Ketevan KupatadzeAs 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: Leaders’ conceptions of…
January 29, 2019Student-staff partnership as collective curricular activism in curriculum liberation effortsby Lucy Mercer-MapstoneMuch 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 say this, though,…
January 16, 2019Positive Psychology and Partnershipsby Ketevan KupatadzeI want to start this blog post with a confession. Before reading the article I discuss in this post, I was quite skeptical of one particular partnership model championed by Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges — one that partners students…
January 10, 2019What Does SoTL Have to do with Students?by Sophia AbbotThis past October, the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) met in Bergen, Norway, to share SoTL projects, practices, and findings. On the Center for Engaged Learning’s “What is SoTL?” page, we define SoTL as “faculty…
December 6, 2018Students as Partners at ISSOTL 2018by Sophia Abbot and Ketevan KupatadzeStudents as Partners (SaP) had a major presence at the 2018 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) conference in Bergen, Norway, this past October. Twenty of the 247 conference sessions, and two of the six pre-conference…
December 4, 2018Diverse and Alternative Ways of Partnering in SoTLby Ketevan KupatadzeAs I continue talking with my colleagues about student-faculty partnerships, whether in formal or more informal conversations, one recurring theme emerges: what does partnership look like in practice? My observations have taught me that a) most faculty immediately think of…
November 28, 2018A Continuum of Research: Assistants, Partners, and Undergraduate Researchersby Sophia AbbotOne of the most powerful experiences of my undergraduate career was spending a summer writing and researching with Dr. Alison Cook-Sather. While the official job title was “research assistant,” I was doing much more than supporting Dr. Cook-Sather’s ongoing work…
October 30, 2018Lessons from Peer Tutoring Towards Mentoring Undergraduate Researchby Sophia AbbotAs I’ve reflected on the findings of my recent collaborative research and subsequent blog post on peer tutoring, I’ve begun to consider ways lessons from that work might inform practices in other student-instructor relationships. What I mean by peer tutoring…
October 16, 2018Stephen Bloch-Schulman, Claire Lockard and maggie castor on Student-Faculty Partnershipsby Ketevan KupatadzeRecently I was extremely fortunate to have a conversation with Dr. Stephen Bloch-Shulman and then undergraduate, but now graduate students, Claire Lockard and maggie castor, about their experiences with partnership in teaching and learning. Stephen, maggie, and Claire have worked…
September 27, 2018What Happens if Disagreement in Partnership is Unevenly Experienced?by Sophia AbbotThis past January and February, my colleague and I launched research exploring the ways students and faculty in partnership can experience disagreement in generative ways that ultimately enhance their partnered relationship along with the broader goals of their work together….
