Above, left to right: Janice Miller-Young (Institute for SoTL), Yasmin Dean (Social Work), Judy Gleeson (Nursing), Victoria Clavert (Bissett School of Business), Patti Clayton (Indiana Univeristy – Purdue University Indianapolis), Melanie Rathburn (Biology), Roberta Lexier (General Education), Margot Underwood (Nursing)

This faculty research group is collaborating with leading scholar Dr. Patti Clayton to conduct a self-study of faculty learning when teaching with the challenging pedagogy “Community Service Learning”. They have conducted a series of interviews about reciprocity in their international service-learning courses and will work over the 2014-15 academic year to analyze them, place their findings within the existing literature, and ultimately produce a paper. However, we are finding the benefits of this work to be as much about process as outcome (the sharing of stories, as well as group analysis and writing are all part of the learning process). Preliminary findings are being presented at the prestigious IARSLCE conference:

• Decoding Ourselves: faculty thinking about reciprocity in global service learning courses, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement, Tulane University, Sept. 2014.

We anticipate that by getting this interdisciplinary community together, other collaborative projects about student learning will grow out of it in the future. Currently, I-SoTL is also sponsoring one SoTL-CSL research project in General Education (Rathburn and Lexier).