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…
February 27, 2019Institutional Leaders’ and Administrators’ Take on Students as Partnersby Ketevan Kupatadze As 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:…
January 29, 2019Student-staff partnership as collective curricular activism in curriculum liberation effortsby Lucy Mercer-Mapstone Much 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…
January 16, 2019Positive Psychology and Partnershipsby Ketevan Kupatadze I 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…
January 10, 2019What Does SoTL Have to do with Students?by Sophia Abbot This 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…
December 6, 2018Students as Partners at ISSOTL 2018by Sophia Abbot and Ketevan Kupatadze Students 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,…
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 Abbot As 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…
