Campus Dialogue Grants: Realizing Higher Education’s Greater Purposes --Bridging Theory to Practice (BTtoP)

Link to BTtoP for more in formation:

http://www.bttop.org/grants-funding/funding-opportunities

Hello all, 

I am sharing this opportunity as it may be of interest to some of you.

 

The dialogue designs and intended participants should reflect each institution’s unique culture and attentiveness to current issues facing the campus. Examples may include discussions and planning related to the following:

  • How students’ civic action—such as participation in groups or in social and political campaigns—relates to their learning and well-being, and how such action can be supported through intentional institutional structures
  • How curricular and pedagogical planning can help support the needs of an increasingly diverse student body, and why rethinking the university in an inclusive way that fully supports students’ intersectional identities is needed not only to prepare students for the workforce, but for the full realization of a democratic society
  • How students, faculty, staff, and community members can discuss and respond to oppositional perspectives reflecting political, social, and personal values
  • How redesigning first-year advising or undergraduate mentoring programs can help foster positive change in campus culture and explicit attention to student well-being
  • How campuses can respond to calls for safe and equitable spaces while maintaining a culture of freedom, liberal education, and risk-taking—and what sustaining this balance means for students’ lives after graduation
  • How academic and student affairs responsibilities and resources can be productively aligned to address both cognitive and noncognitive outcomes for student learning and development
  • How major investments in technology or uses of social media in instruction can be both disruptive and integrative forces in encouraging civic participation, and how technology and social media use relate to your campus mission

While each campus will enter the discussion of higher education’s greater purposes through its own unique window, all grant projects will build on the foundational idea that campuses are, and have long been, the epicenter for conversations resulting in social change. BTtoP’s hope is that the dialogues supported by this project will seed change in the narrative about higher education, shifting that narrative from one that describes a college education primarily as a pathway to a better job to one that recognizes higher education as a pathway to a better life. The collective expression of this revitalized narrative by many campuses, through many voices and perspectives, will guide a new understanding of the greater purposes of higher education.

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