Stetson Spotlight

Connecting the Dots and Realigning the Wheels: The future of URSCA at Stetson University

by Jelena Petrovic High-impact educational practices, mentorship, backward design, inquiry-based learning, student-as-scholar, research-skill scaffold… Sorting through the concepts that underline contemporary approaches to undergraduate research, scholarship, and creative activity (URSCA) was not a small task for our Stetson team at the Council on Undergraduate Research Institute on Creative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities. Over […]

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Summer Grant Awards

Congratulations to all Summer Grant recipients. Summer Grants 2015 Jon Carrick – Global SME Resources Database (G-SMERD) Development Wingyan Chung – Examining the Evolution of Twitter User Networks: The Case of U.S. Immigration Reform Rachel Core – Institutional Change and Tuberculosis Control in Rural Shanghai, 1958-2003 Laura Crysel – Being the “Catcher in the Rye”:

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WORLD Class Travel Awardees

Stetson University’s teacher-scholar faculty travel abroad as WORLD Class Travel Award recipients to engage in professional development seminars, exploration trips, and other learning experiences. They investigate innovative approaches to internationalize curricula to increase global and intercultural learning. To become a WORLD Class Award recipient at Stetson University, click here. 2016-2017 Awards Yves Clemmen, French, [CIEE IFDS]        

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Giving Voice to the Inner Life: Kevin Quashie and the Sovereignty of Quiet

by Josh Rust “I’m a child of quiet” is what Kevin Quashie said during this interview, where I first heard him discuss his book, The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture.  And so it was with some trepidation that we invited him to spend two days with hundreds of Stetson students and faculty

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