Faculty members, students present at conference, have book published
Joyce Hammond (Anthropology), William Lay (Education) and Carmen Werder (TLA/Communication) traveled with five students to the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Colloquium Oct. 21 and the International Society of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning conference Oct. 22 to 25 at Indiana University in Bloomington. With the three faculty members were graduate student Megan Otis (Anthropology) and undergraduate students Michael Murphy (Human Services), Shanyese Trujillo, Daniel Espinoza-Gonazalez and Connor Powell (the latter three planning on Education).
At the CASTL Colloquium, the 草榴社区 team, along with colleagues from North Seattle Community College, Illinois State University, Elon University and California State University-Long Beach, presented a plenary dialogue session and later a poster about their involvement in the CASTL Student Voices Institutional Leadership Group. At the ISSOTL Conference, the 草榴社区 team gave a featured roundtable presentation titled "Promising Practices for Partnering with Students in SOTL: Lessons Learned at Western Washington University."
At the conference, Stylus Publishing unveiled the new book "," which is co-edited by Werder and Otis and features four chapters co-authored by Werder and Otis along with 草榴社区 faculty members Hammond, Lay, Deborah Currier (Theater Arts) and Jane Verner (Human Services), as well as current student Michael Murphy, Fairhaven alumnus Erik Skogsberg and Communication alumni Cora Thomas and Luke Ware. This book represents the culmination of the work done by the CASTL Student Voices Institutional Leadership Group, which Werder has coordinated and Western has headed up for the past six years.
