by:
  Kris Bulcroft,
  Carmen Werder, and
  Glenn Gilliam

  The AAHE Summer Academy

With the money received from the Going Public award, a Western team traveled to Snowbird, Utah to participate in the July, 2000 Summer Academy with an agenda that focused on effecting transformative change. The team included the Director of Interdisciplinary Programs, another faculty member from the Campus Conversations, and two leadership seminar students.

Of the thirty-seven schools participating, Western Washington University and Elon College, which had been a joint recipient of the Going Public grant, were the only two schools focusing on integrating the student voice into the scholarship of teaching and learning.

The primary project goal of the Western team was to draft a case study describing the student and faculty experience in the 1999-2000 Conversations Program, analyzing the results, and suggesting implications for future institutional change. A second goal was to further the alliance with Elon College in their common commitment to sustaining the student voice in campus change initiatives.

The Western team examined relevant artifacts from the Leadership class, including transcripts from online web board discussions and journals, as well as student and faculty surveys gathered in the Carnegie Conversations. While the team studied both student and faculty data, the goal of the case study was to foreground the student experience.

• Introduction
• Campus Conversation at Western Washington University (Parts I & II)
• Where are the Students?
• Leadership Inside Out
• The AAHE Summer Academy
• A Web of Connections
• The Teaching and Learning Academy
• A New Course on Learning
• Diffuse Leadership
• A Public Rally for Learning
• Lessons Learned from the Students
• References
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