By John Tiedemann, Teaching Associate Professor, University Writing Program “[The professoriate] has only interpreted the world; the point is to change it.” 1. Teachers are endlessly resourceful. Funny, too. If you don’t believe me, check out the Facebook group Pandemic Pedagogy, which sprang up spontaneously in March of 2020, when we all, suddenly, “pivoted” to emergency … Continue reading 6 Theses On Teaching During The Pandemic: Reflections and Provocations
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Fieldnotes From a New (Read: Nervous) Community-Engaged Instructor
By Robin Tinghitella, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences If you’re anything like me, when you started planning your courses last summer, the prospect of the up-coming schoolyear made you more than a little bit nervous. We were facing new challenges, teaching in new environments (our homes), and supporting students who were likely to encounter or to have already encountered some very real and scary life situations. But … Continue reading Fieldnotes From a New (Read: Nervous) Community-Engaged Instructor
Burnout and Turnout in the Time of Covid
By Heather Martin, Teaching Professor, University Writing Program The term burnout was coined in 1973 by American psychologist, Herbert Freudenberger, when he noticed changes in “mood, attitude, motivation, and personality” among healthcare workers at the busy healthcare clinic where he worked. The concept resonated and exploded into common parlance, quickly coming to “convey a great … Continue reading Burnout and Turnout in the Time of Covid
Engaged Students, Course Design, and Child Welfare as Course Topic: Reflections from a Community Partner, University Professor, and Communication Studies Undergraduate Students
By: Elizabeth Suter, Professor, Communication Studies & Lauren Dartt, Tennyson Center for Children Across the 2020-2021 academic year, we, Lauren Dartt and Eliza(beth) Suter, collaboratively developed a community-engaged project. Lauren is Director of Marketing & Communications for Tennyson Center for Children, a non-profit serving children and families in Colorado impacted by trauma from child neglect and abuse. Beth is a Professor in the … Continue reading Engaged Students, Course Design, and Child Welfare as Course Topic: Reflections from a Community Partner, University Professor, and Communication Studies Undergraduate Students
Three Take-Aways From My Year as a Community-Engaged Teaching Fellow During COVID
By: Nadia Kaneva, Associate Professor, Media, Film and Journalism Studies In early October 2020, as I stumbled through a second quarter of teaching remotely from my kitchen table and living in near total isolation, an email from DU’s Center for Community Engagement to advance Scholarship and Learning (CCESL) delivered a spark of hope to my inbox. “Apply to … Continue reading Three Take-Aways From My Year as a Community-Engaged Teaching Fellow During COVID
Bridging Learning and Doing: Colorado Quechua Cultural Outreach/ Peruvian Sheepherder Project
By: Alison Krögel, Associate Professor, Andean Literary and Cultural Studies; Department of Spanish Language, Literary & Cultural Studies (SLLCS) Since 2013, I have collaborated with various organizations on issues related to Peruvian sheepherders who work in remote regions of Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West under the auspices of the H-2A temporary agricultural worker visa … Continue reading Bridging Learning and Doing: Colorado Quechua Cultural Outreach/ Peruvian Sheepherder Project
Bridging Learning and Doing: Evaluating for the Greater Good
By: Erin Haseley, Graduate Student, Research Methods and Statistics; Robyn Thomas Pitts, Assistant Professor, Evaluation & Mixed Methods Research The Research Methods and Statistics (RMS) program in the Morgridge College of Education (MCE) prepares students to “use data as a tool for promoting…the public good.” In a series of community-engaged courses on evaluation research taught … Continue reading Bridging Learning and Doing: Evaluating for the Greater Good
Bridging Learning and Doing: Community Forum on Race, Racism, and Buddhism
By: Benjamin Nourse, Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies "This is like a pop-up sangha" one participant declared during the course of the community forum on Race, Racism, and Buddhism. The Sanskrit term she used, sangha, is used popularly by many Buddhists in the US to talk about community. The community that had come together … Continue reading Bridging Learning and Doing: Community Forum on Race, Racism, and Buddhism
Bridging Learning and Doing: Supporting Partnerships with Immigrant and Labor Rights Organizations
By: Rebecca Galemba, Associate Professor, Korbel School of International Studies Supported by a CCESL mini-grant, my Winter 2020 Qualitative Methods course paired Korbel MA graduate students in community-based research partnerships with immigrant and labor rights organizations in the Denver area. In the course, students learn-by-doing - drawing on class readings, strong partnerships, and practical experience … Continue reading Bridging Learning and Doing: Supporting Partnerships with Immigrant and Labor Rights Organizations
Bridging Learning and Doing: Updates on Antiracism and Anti-Oppression Reviews at CCESL
By: Anne P. DePrince, CCESL Director, Professor of Psychology The summer months for an office like CCESL stay busy with an extraordinary amount of planning for the year ahead. As we simultaneously finish up internal evaluations of programs from the previous academic year, we integrate what we learned from the previous year into planning for … Continue reading Bridging Learning and Doing: Updates on Antiracism and Anti-Oppression Reviews at CCESL
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