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7/30/07
GRANT ALLOWS SLU TO EXPLORE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, WELL-BEING
CANTON - The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP), in partnership with the
Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and funded by the Charles
Engelhard Foundation of New York, has awarded St. Lawrence University a $250,000
grant, which will allow the University to foster various pedagogies of engagement
within the First-Year Program through intentional and intensive faculty and staff
development. The grant, which is part of BTtoP's Demonstration Program, is also
intended to facilitate more in-depth study of the connections between student
engagement, student civic development and student well-being.
The funding is for a three-year period and is one of two "Intensive Site" grants
awarded. BTtoP is in its fourth year and has funded over 40 institutions thus
far, from program start-up and mini-grants up to two-year awards as demonstration
sites. As the first two "Intensive Sites," St. Lawrence and Georgetown University
will each focus on an entire cohort of students to implement this new initiative.
According to the AAC&U, "Each of these institutions is being funded to develop
and evaluate new strategies to get students more engaged with their learning,
and, in so doing, improve their health and civic engagement."
St. Lawrence University's project is titled "Transforming Pedagogy, Transforming
Lives: Engaged Learning as a Source of Student Civic Development and Well-Being."
The project will use a variety of engaged teaching methods in the University's
First-Year Program, with the goal of increasing student intentionality and empowerment,
and examining through systematic collection of longitudinal data and multivariate
analysis the relationship between engaged learning and students' personal and civic
development and well-being.
The project will be co-directed by Associate Dean of the First Year and
Associate Professor of Psychology
Catherine A. Crosby-Currie
and Director of Institutional Research Christine Zimmerman.
Further information about the Bringing Theory to Practice program is available
at its Web site.
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