Building Department Community through Student Voice Learning Community

Overview

Our learning community aims to recruit faculty-student partners from different departments across EMU’s five diverse colleges to participate in a TaLT learning community during the winter 2025 semester. We welcome applications from faculty members, full-time lecturers, and part-time lecturers in all programs. Ideal faculty fellows should have a student partner from their home department to participate in this wonderful opportunity. This learning community supports the Teaching and Learning Together (TaLT) initiative that began at the Bruce K. Nelson Faculty Development Center during the 2022-2023 academic year. TaLT aims to increase collaborations in teaching and learning between faculty and students across our campus. We are working towards increasing these connections and community, which have historically been a strength of EMU.

Eligibility

This learning community is open to faculty, full-time lecturers, and their student partners.

What are the benefits of participation for you and your student partner?

• Learning how to develop a more inviting department community (i.e., a department both students and educators want to be a part of);
• Working closely with a student partner (aka, an “expert) who can provide a student perspective on department culture;
• Increasing educator and student satisfaction within your department;
• $300 stipend for faculty participants;
• $300 stipend for student partner participants.

Application

To apply, please fill out the faculty-fellow application, linked here. Applications are due by 8:00 p.m. on December 10, 2024. If you wish to discuss this opportunity further, please contact Chiron Graves, Lead Faculty Member for this Learning Community, Sarah Ginsberg, Faculty Development Center Faculty Associate Director, or Jeffrey Bernstein, Faculty Development Center Director.