Students as Partners

Through Pedagogical Partners and our internship program, CETL honors the OU Pledge by providing undergraduate and graduate students with meaningful, hands-on learning opportunities. By collaborating with us on projects related to education, training and development, and professional writing, students transform academic knowledge into experience-based expertise. This commitment to high impact practices empowers students as innovators and partners, fueling their career readiness and enabling substantive professional contributions to the Oakland University community. See our current and past student partners.

Pedagogical Partnerships

The Pedagogical Partnerships Program connects Oakland University students and faculty to enhance teaching and learning across campus. Led by CETL, the program is co-sponsored by the Division of Academic Affairs.

Get Insights from Our Student Partners

Have you ever wondered how students experience the environment within your class?  Are you interested in gaining a deeper understanding of what you can do, from a student’s perspective, to make your class more interesting, engaging, or impactful?  Sign up for a consultation and classroom visit from one of CETL's Pedagogical Partnerships Student Professionals. 

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.

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:

• An OU Student’s Perspective on Engaging Students
• A Student’s Perspective: Building Confidence in Student Writers 
• Student Perspectives on Collaborating with Professors

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

For more strategies on motivating and connecting with learners, see Engaging Students in Learning.