Collaborative Program Design
Through Students and Learners and Teachers (SaLT), undergraduates have opportunities to work in collaboration with faculty and staff to develop projects and programs.
Two examples of the collaborative program design experiences of SaLT student consultants are described below:
Making Extra Classroom Student-Faculty Pedagogical Partnership More Accessible
Led by Dante Nguyen, Haverford College class of 2025, in partnership with Alison Cook-Sather, director of SaLT, and Christina Rose, director of the Chesick Scholars Program. This IRB-approved project took a students-as-co-researchers approach to a three-phase action-research effort to (a) assess the benefits of pedagogical partnership, (b) conceptualize a new approach to fostering those benefits, and (c) pilot that approach could inform efforts at our own and other institutions to pursue social-justice goals in higher education. This research resulted in the publication of an article "Developing an inclusive, student-led approach to scaling up the benefits of pedagogical partnership for social justice in higher education," in Social Sciences.
Summer Pedagogical Partnership Program
Co-created by Alison Cook-Sather and several SaLT student consultants in 2020 at the intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Black Lives Matter uprisings, the Summer Pedagogical Partnership Program aimed to support faculty in developing capacity to teach online and to support international students who could not travel home during this time. Two articles, "Undergraduate students partnering with faculty to develop trauma-informed, anti-racist pedagogical approaches: Intersecting experiences of three student partners" and "When distance deepens connections: How intercollegiate partnership programs support empathetic, engaged, and equitable teaching approaches," both co-authored with students were published about this meaningful program.
