Accepted Participants

Linda Adler-Kassner, University of California, Santa BarbaraNora Bacon, University of Nebraska at OmahaLinda Bergmann, Purdue UniversityStuart Blythe, Michigan State UniversityDiane Boyd, Furman UniversityScott Chiu, Michigan State UniversityIrene Clark, California State University, NorthridgeRegina Clemens, Oklahoma City UniversityStacey Cozart, Aarhus University, DenmarkGita…

Pedagogical Partnerships and The Power of Partnership: A Roadmap to Revolutionizing Higher Ed

Pedagogical partnerships or students-as-partners pedagogy has become increasingly popular internationally due to its promise to be transformative in building considerably more equitable and collaborative relationships between diverse players in higher education institutions, most importantly between students and faculty/staff (Matthews, Cook-Sather,…

Seminar Participants

Olivia Anderson, University of Michigan Dr. Liv Anderson is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Nutritional Sciences Department at the University of Michigan (UM) School of Public Health. Prior to her appointment at the School of Public Health, she worked…

Students as Partners

Definition Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, or simply Students as Partners (SaP), is a pedagogical approach that has been embraced recently by many higher education institutions primarily in the US, the UK, Canada, and Australia….

Asking Inquiry Questions

Inquiry questions in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) often fall into one of the categories in Pat Hutchings’ (2000) Taxonomy of Questions, although the taxonomy is not exhaustive. Hutchings identifies four types of questions (pp. 4-5): In the following video,…

CEL Scholars

During a two-year appointment, CEL Scholars will develop expertise in a specific aspect of engaged learning and will create resources on that topic to be shared through CEL’s web site and in other scholarly venues. The CEL Scholar position is…

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…

If we use the right pedagogies and create supportive environments, we as educators could... come to view learning as an opportunity to raise more conscientious, ethical, and caring human beings.

Pedagogical Partnerships: Transformational or Institutional Change?

As 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…

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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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Positive Psychology and Partnerships

by 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…

"Reading this article made me reconsider my previously held skeptical attitude towards the student consultants program..."