College Teaching and Learning for Change Students and Faculty Speak Out

Students and faculty come together in this powerful collection to discuss experiences and teaching practices that can change students? lives. Organized into four parts, these first-person accounts explore the many challenges facing college students, offering advice on how to best serve low-income, first-generation, underrepresented student populations; how to foster political engagement; and how to help students take charge of their lives and education. The stories in College Teaching and Learning for Change provide higher education faculty and student affairs practitioners with an increased understanding of the wide variety of student experiences, and together they constitute a platform for encouraging student success.

CONTENTS

Preface

Margaret A. Miller

Part I: Teaching and Learning

Chapter 1: Students Speak About Powerful Learning

1. Reacting to "Reacting"

Amanda Houle

2. On the Power of Invective

Harlow Stewart Sanders

3. Journey to Diamond

Carson Wong

4. Walking the Walk

Matt Procino

Chapter 2: Faculty Speak About Engaging Students in Learning

5. Interactive Engagement in Upper-Division Physics

Steven Pollock

6. The Road to a Project-Based Classroom

Gintaras Duda

7. Google Earth Takes Us There

Ann Williams and Thomas C. Davinroy

8. Rethinking the Large Lecture

Andrew Hamilton

9. Lying About the Past

T. Miles Kelly

Chapter 3: Faculty Speak About Learning Theory and Its Applications

10. The Learning Sciences and Liberal Education

Nancy Budwig

11. Inciting Speech

Mark Carnes

12. Rules of Engagement: Strategies to Increase Online Engagement at Scale

Anne Trumbore

13. Learning, Teaching and Scholarship: Fundamental Tensions of Undergraduate Research

Sandra Laursen, Elaine Seymour & Anne-Barrie Hunter

Chapter 4: Knowing and Doing

Margaret A. Miller

Part II: Belonging in College

Chapter 5: Students and Faculty Speak About Their Unsure Footing

1. The Power of the Posse

Ravi Singh, Yewande Selau, and Kiersten Chresfield

2. Self-Discovery through Undergraduate Research

Desiree Porter

3. Finding Community

Brenda Martinez

4. Homeless and Hungry in College

Brooke A. Evans

5. Teaching Across Difference

Jonathan Silin

Chapter 6: Faculty Speak About Helping Students Succeed

6. Moving the Attainment Agenda from Policy to Action

Keith Witham, Megan Chase, Estela Mara Bensimon, Debbie Hanson & David Longanecker

7. Summer Bridge Program 2.0: Using Social Media to Develop Students' Campus Capital

Derek L. Hottell, Ana M. Martinez-Aleman & Heather T. Rowan-Kenyon

8. The Dark Side of College (Un)Affordability: Food and Housing Insecurity in Higher Education

Katharine Broton and Sara Goldrick-Rab

Chapter 7: Imposters in the Academy

Margaret A. Miller

Part III: Becoming Engaged

Chapter 8: Students Speak About Becoming Citizens

1. Creating Democratic Spaces

Maggie Castor

2. A Different Kind of Student Activism

Logan Nash

Chapter 9: Faculty Speak About Students’ and Graduates’ Civic Power

3. Empowering Students to Make a Difference Now

Susan Dicklitch and Amara M. Riley

4. Against the Current: Developing the Civic Agency of Students

Harry C. Boyte

5. Failing at Citizenry

Paul Kingston

Chapter 10: Educating for Citizenship

Margaret A. Miller

Part IV: Finding Agency

Chapter 11: Students Speak About Developing Agency

1. Finding My Voice in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

Megan M. Otis

2. A Dream Realized

Klara Kang

3. No More Training Wheels

Josh Berman

4. The Time Capsule

David Brandt

5. Tagliare Fore di Tenere

Laura Ackerman

6. On Not Being an A Student

Holly King

7. How to Fail Well

Anya Adair

Chapter 12: Faculty Speak About the Outcomes of College

8. Coming Back to School: What Returning Students Can Teach Us About Learning and Development

Mike Rose

9. Making Learning Visible and Meaningful through Electronic Portfolios

Terrel L. Rhodes

10. Well-Being: An Essential Outcome for Higher Education

Ashley Finley

Chapter 13: Educating for Life

Margaret A. Miller

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Margaret A. Miller is former executive editor of Change magazine, president emerita of the American Association for Higher Education, and a retired professor of higher education at the University of Virginia, USA.