As a campus, we share an aspiration for developing leaders who are eager to engage locally or globally to create positive change. These trends call attention to our common aspirations to create learning environments that promote critical thinking, creativity, problem-solving, and community engagement to create positive change, intercultural competence, self-reflection, lifelong learning, and global citizenship-all the outcomes that set the residential learning experience in a digital era apart.Īt U-M, we strive to continually differentiate our residential learning experience by embodying a culture of engagement. How are the practices of scholarship changing? Where is established and high-quality teaching expanding? What is enabling the development of new learning practices? How is the value-add of residential learning being conveyed to the broader public? As campuses engage in these types of questions, it is not surprising that themes begin to emerge.Ĭaption: Campus themes calling our collective attention to the need to create and promote learning environments focused on student learning. The evolving digital ecosystem and increasing call for accountability and affordability in higher education bring to the forefront discussions about how universities teach and how students learn. The results were both expected and unexpected, showcasing the predominant and pervasive role of the arts, illuminating various responses to recent challenges in higher education, emphasizing the specific aspirations of our university, demonstrating the importance of the creative process in learning, and, most interestingly, illustrating how library partnerships enable discovery, collaboration, and learning. This past March, the University of Michigan (U-M) invited these voices to come together for the inaugural UpstArt festival ( ) to celebrate the arts in scholarship. Students, scientists, dancers, performers, professors, renowned authors and poets, researchers, administrators, activists, and librarians-what do they have in common? They bring perspectives and vision to the conversation about how the arts inform, enable, and advance who we are today and where we directionally aspire to be. Develop norms for a robust community of practice that will continue to recognize and build on the vast resources, expertise, and strengths of its participants.Laurie Alexander, Beau David Case, Annette Haines, Linda Knox, Linda Knox, and Carrie Luke.Understand how to uncover students hidden sources of passion, resilience and motivation in order to create more engaged learning experiences and,. Distinguish between the types of questions and prompts that help people recognize and integrate unconscious resources and learning, and the kinds of questions/prompts that unintentionally lead people to have confusing and fragmented learning experiences.This workshop will enable participants to: We would like to thank the EWU Foundation for the Start Something Big grant, and the provost’s office, each of whom contributed funding for this event. Peet is a guest of the Faculty Commons and University College. Peet works with the Association for the Study of Higher Education, the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity, the American Dental Education Association, and the Council of Social Work Education.ĭr. Following the open forum, she will conduct a two-day workshop for faculty and staff involved in Project REAL, a co-curricular record program. Peet will focus on helping us develop a community of practice around reflective teaching and learning and will make us aware of the existing resources that we have within our faculty and staff community. Melissa Peet, Academic Director for the Integrative Learning and MPortfolio Initiative at the University of Michigan.ĭr.
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