ABSTRACT
Student engagement in US higher education has focused primarily on the micro-level of teaching and learning. The concept of student engagement emerged from deep veins of research into undergraduate learning and experiences in the United States. Serious and sustained attention to student engagement, particularly the micro-level work of learning and teaching and the meso-level of educational quality, would help keep institutional leaders focused on the transformational – not merely the transactional – purposes of higher education. Partnership offers the possibility of re-orienting engagement towards preparing students – and their faculty and staff partners – to not only develop: a craft or skill or a way of being in the world that frees us to act with greater knowledge or power. Many US institutions now feature high-impact practices in their marketing materials, promising study abroad in exotic locales and internships with prestigious corporations.
