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Grant-and Gift-Supported Work

Alison Cook-Sather, the Teaching Learning Institute and Bryn Mawr College 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) Institutional Impact Grant 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 Bryn Mawr’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.

Image from Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative’s announcement of 2025 grant recipients.
Image from Wake Forest’s Educating Character Initiative’s announcement of 2025 grant recipients.

"From Way of Working to Way of Being: Understanding Undergraduates’ Experiences of Pedagogical Partnership as a Calling"

This NetVUE grant awarded to Alison Cook-Sather, will support Alison in learn from graduates who worked in SaLT and SaLT-inspired partnership programs how those graduates have forged life pathways honoring the calling to pursue and foster relational ways of being, and offer recommendations for how higher education institutions can better support students in pursuing deeply relational ways of learning, growing, and being with others.

Student research opportunity: Funds from the grant support two experienced SaLT student consultants—Shay O'Connor, Haverford College class of 2027, and Gongyu Yang, Bryn Mawr College 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 Bryn Mawr College courses.

Student research opportunity: Funds from the gift are supporting Josie Cosentino, Bryn Mawr College 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.