Student Voices in Action at WWU

• Thanks to the leadership of five TLA students (Lauree Fletcher, Mike Murphy, Jesse Nelson, Whitney Dunbar and Allison Kahl), WWU now has an Associated Students club called Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Click here for more information about the Student Voices Club.
• Several current and former TLA students (Erik Skogsberg, Luke Ware, Cora Thomas, Michael Murphy, and Megan Otis) are co-authoring several different chapters with faculty in a book which is scheduled to be published by Stylus Press in Fall of 2009. The working title for the book is Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Listening is Not Enough.
• In October 2008, TLA Students Whitney Dunbar, Michael Murphy and Megan Otis presented at the 2008 CASTL Student Voices Convening preceeding the 2008 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL) Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Additionally, at the 2008 ISSOTL Conference, Michael Murphy co-presented a paper with faculty member Carmen Werder entitled "Dialogue as Assessment: A Case Study on Disruptions in the Classroom." Megan Otis co-presented with faculty member Joyce Hammond a paper entitled "Using Participatory Action Research to Enhance the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning."
• A number of TLA students (Luke Ware, Dayo Anderson, Rachel Christman, Leslie Driediger, Whitney Dunbar, Lauree Fletcher, Mike Murphy, Alice Hunting and Megan Otis) worked with several faculty, staff and administrators, to plan - from the ground up - a conference called Festival of Scholarship: Celebrating Collaborative Inquiry which took place at WWU on April 10-12, 2008.
• In October 2007, TLA Students Dayo Anderson, Luke Ware, Cora Thomas, Michael Murphy, Leslie Driediger and Megan Otis presented on WWU's SOTL Research Agenda at the CASTL Student Voices Convening at the University of Nevada - Las Vegas. For more information on this convening, click here.
• In Spring 2007, four TLA students (Rachel Christman, Cora Thomas, Luke Ware and Megan Otis) conducted research on TLA survey data from past quarters and presented their research goals and initial findings at WWU's Scholars Week in May 2007. In Fall 2007, students Luke Ware and Cora Thomas continued their research on TLA survey data started in the spring, and presented their findings at the Festival of Scholarship in April 2008.
• May 2-4, 2007 four TLA students (Dayo Anderson, Leslie Driediger, Josh Bergman and Luke Ware) presented at the PNW Higher Education Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference in Vancouver, WA.
• March 29-30 2007, two TLA students (Kelly Barefield and Megan Otis) presented on Student Voices in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at the University of Alaska - Anchorage as part of a faculty development series on the scholarship of teaching and learning at UAA.
• Megan Otis, graduate student in Anthropology and long-time TLA member, is doing her thesis research on how students are affected by their participation in the TLA.