The Power of Partnership, Section Two: The Interstices

by Sophia Abbot Section 2 of The Power of Partnership is called “Intersections.” Sam Hester’s opening illustration for the section fully embraces this theme. She visually disrupts boundaries and juxtaposes apparent opposites, suggesting that the space where those opposites meet …

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Power of Partnership Origins: “Now you know the rest of the story”

by Sophia Abbot The Center for Engaged Learning recently released The Power of Partnership: Students, Staff, and Faculty Revolutionizing Higher Education. In our E-Origin Story, Lucy and I (the collection editors) explain the conception of the book itself. But I …

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Pedagogical Partnerships Interview with Authors

by Sophia Abbot To celebrate the release of Pedagogical Partnerships: A How-To Guide for Faculty, Students, and Academic Developers in Higher Education (Cook-Sather, Bahti, & Ntem 2019), I spoke to the authors about their experience practicing and writing about pedagogical …

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Global Learning and Partnership

by Sophia Abbot Last January, I took a class on Engaged Learning in Higher Education. I wrote a little bit about this class in my spring post on Partnership and Mentorship at Scale, but one thing I didn’t mention was …

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TLTHE Special Issue on Partnerships as Experienced by Students

by 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 …

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Partnership and mentorship at scale: A matter of inclusion

by 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 …

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Pedagogical Partnerships: Transformational or Institutional Change?

by Sophia Abbot and Ketevan Kupatadze As instructional partnerships continue to develop, we wonder: (How) might partnership be embraced as an ethos and culture within the institution of higher ed, while continuing to push on the traditionalist fabric of these …

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Institutional Leaders’ and Administrators’ Take on Students as Partners

by 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: …

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What We Love: Student Motivations for Engaging in SoTL

by Sophia Abbot Student involvement at ISSOTL is growing. As a newly elected member of the ISSOTL Board, I serve as a student representative in conversations about the society’s growth and strategic planning, as well as about SoTL more broadly. …

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Student-staff partnership as collective curricular activism in curriculum liberation efforts

by 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 …

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