Grant-and Gift-Supported Work
Alison Cook-Sather, the Teaching Learning Institute and ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø have received grants and gifts that create particular opportunities for student research and professional development.
Three examples of grant and gift-supported opportunities for SaLT student consultants are described below:
“Teaching and Learning Character Together: A Partnership Approach to Preparing Students for Lives of Purpose"
This Educative Character Initiative (ECI) awarded to Alison Cook-Sather, Joel Schlosser (Political Science), and Jennefer Callaghen (Writing Program) is supporting faculty exploration of respect, open-mindedness, and courage in order to intentionally integrate development of these values into ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø’s first-year thinking and writing program and into introductory-level general education courses across liberal arts disciplines.
Student research opportunity: Funds from the grant support SaLT student consultants in participating in weekly meetings of the faculty pedagogy seminar, in co-facilitating pedagogy circles, and in writing about this work.
"From Way of Working to Way of Being: Understanding Undergraduates’ Experiences of Pedagogical Partnership as a Calling"
Student research opportunity: Funds from the grant support two experienced SaLT student consultants—Shay O'Connor, Haverford College class of 2027, and Gongyu Yang, ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø class of 2027—in working with Alison to identify how student consultants name the calling inspired by pedagogical partnership work to pursue and foster relational ways of being.
Donor Gift
A gift from a donor is supporting the exploration of how ethics is conceptualized and taught in ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø courses.
Student research opportunity: Funds from the gift are supporting Josie Cosentino, ²ÝÁñ³ÉÈËÉçÇø class of 2026, to hold informal conversations with college faculty on how they conceptualize and teach ethics, to work in a focused SaLT partnership with one faculty member on these same themes, and to write an article about this work.