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Supporting Engaged Teacher Scholars

As part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous sessions, Dayna Henry from James Madison University presented on “A Case Study of SoTL Leaders as Catalysts Toward Institutionalizing SoTL Cultural Change.” Along with Ashley Taylor Jaffee, they described SoTL as: “evidence-based, teaching and learning scholarly activities which include systematic inquiry into what works and does […]
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Cox and the FLCs

​Milton D. Cox from Miami University gave a talk about”Creating and Sustaining Face-to-Face and Virtual FLCs” at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online. Cox defined communities of practices as “groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area […]
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The Frederick Douglass Institute

Drs. Shavonne Shorter and Robert J. Green from Bloomsbury University have a great program to support marginalized students. As we prepare for our summer programs, I watched this session again this evening with Amada (and bedtime routine). The title of Shorter and Green’s 2020 Lilly Conference asynchronous session “Increasing Marginalized Student Success Through the Frederick […]
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SoTL… and SoAD and SoLC!

Professor Emeritus Milt Cox from Miami University of Ohio presented a recorded Lilly Conference session about the commonalities and differences of three scholarships: Teaching and Learning, Academic Development, and Learning Communities. Cox has done extensive scholarly research and is editor of a Scholarship of Learning Communities journal. Cox compared the processes of the three scholarships […]
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Place-based Learning and Course-based Research Experiences

Episode 342 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with fantastic host Bonni Stachowiak featured Amy Sprowles and Matt Johnson from Humboldt State University. They discussed their journey creating learning communities with cohorts of first-year students learning about the issues and history of the Klamath river area (see Klamath Connection Program website). They described the […]
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