Students as Partners

Student-Faculty Collaboration Event

After many collaborations with OU students on creating engaging learning experiences, we are launching a formal student-faculty collaboration initiative. The Pedagogical Partnerships Program brings together faculty and students to collaboratively enhance the teaching and learning experience at Oakland University. Through structured dialogue and feedback, this initiative empowers faculty to refine their teaching practices while giving undergraduate and graduate students a meaningful voice in shaping their educational journey.

If you are an OU student interested in partnering with faculty in this effort, reach out to cetl@oakland.edu.

Related Panel Events and Teaching Tips

Every year CETL works with OU Student Congress to host a student-led panel event on connecting student experience with teaching practices. As a recap of the most recent student panel event, panelists shared Student Perspectives on Collaborating with Professors. 

More student-authored tips:

• A Student’s Perspective: Building Confidence in Student Writing
• An OU Student’s Perspective on Engaging Students
• Reciprocity, Empowerment, and Trust: The Foundation of Student-Faculty Collaboration

Students have also shared their perspectives in our Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning YouTube series.

More about Pedagogical Partnerships

Pedagogical Partnership is an increasingly popular student-faculty teaching in higher education program, popularized by Alison Cook-Sather’s 2014 book republished as an open access book in 2019: Pedagogical Partnerships: A How-To Guide for Faculty, Students, and Academic Developers in Higher Education. For a multimodal resource collection, see University of Virginia’s Students as Partners.