The Center for Engaged Learning Research Seminar on Learning on Location: Place-Based Pedagogies in Higher Education will support multi-institutional research addressing and surrounding this theme over two academic calendar years, with three one-week summer meetings on the Elon University campus. Participants will collaborate on active research over the entire period. These multi-institutional collaborations will enable larger scale studies and explorations of the impact of different institutional contexts.

• Year 1: July 13-18, 2025: Participants will meet on Elon’s campus to collaboratively develop and plan multi-institutional research projects to be conducted throughout the following year at the participants’ own institutions. These research cohorts will enable larger scale studies and explorations of the impact of different institutional contexts.
• Year 2: July 12-17, 2026: Participants will meet to share their initial multi-institutional results and to plan a more sharply focused research agenda for the research cohort for year two.
• Year 3: July 11-16, 2027: Participants will reconvene to share their year-two results, to plan continuations of their work, and to participate in the Conference on Engaged Learning (July 12-13, 2027), with a conference strand on the seminar theme.

Participants will produce significant, concrete outcomes. Past Center for Engaged Learning research seminars have generated edited volumes, journal articles and book chapters, white papers, and conference presentations – as well as local initiatives on participants’ home campuses.