Engaged Student Learning Task Force

The term “engaged student learning” at Bridgewater State College has come to be defined as the vision for what is truly transformative about the ways our students learn and faculty teach at their respective best. We mark this through our strategic plan’s commitment to foster “a rigorous and dynamic academic environment marked by intensive student-faculty engagement.”

Engaged student learning includes a variety of curricular and co-curricular activities such as out-of-class experiences, hands-on laboratory exercises, student teaching, field work, service learning, inquiry-based studies, internships, leadership opportunities, undergraduate research projects, international study opportunities, and classroom innovations that involve students in the active construction of their own knowledge.

Institutionalizing these initiatives requires that we articulate clearly at the outset what we mean by engaged learning, what we want it to do for our students, and how a campus defined by this transformation would look and function differently as a result. The Engaged Student Learning Task Force, appointed by the president in February 2008, seeks to clarify and articulate this vision through broad campus input that gathers together the tremendous energy of our faculty, our students and our staff.

Members

Andy Harris (President’s office), chair
Diane Bell (Community Service)
Michelle Cox (English)
Kevin Curry (Biology)
Phyllis Gimbel (Secondary Education and Professional Programs)
James Hayes-Bohanan (Geography)
Cathy Holbrook (Student Affairs)
Thomas Kling (Physics)
Michael Kocet (Counselor Education)
Ron Pitt (Academic Affairs)
Nicholas Pirelli (Graduate student, Management Science)
Christine Tetreault (Career Services)
Wing-kai To (History)
Lee Torda (Undergraduate Research)
Mike Young (Institutional Research)

Last Modified: April 20, 2011