Office Hours with John Gardner
Sarah Bunnell creates space to learn from and with students. In her development work, she guides educators with the question, “How do I build my classroom as a community and how do I help my students find community”. Learn about how she creates belonging for students.
Sarah Bunnell is the Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning at Elon University and Past-President of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (ISSOTL), Bunnell is an internationally recognized leader in the scholarship of teaching and learning and faculty development. During her tenure at Amherst College, Bunnell partnered with Dr. Sheila Jaswal, Megan Lyster, and countless students and colleagues to assess, refine, and support colleges and universities across the country who have adopted and adapted the “Being Human in STEM (HSTEM)” course (see Bunnell, Jaswal, & Lyster, 2023, Routledge Press). This student, faculty, and staff co-designed course grew out of a 4-day student protest and occupation of the Amherst College library in 2015, in which students holding marginalized identities on campus spoke to their experiences of exclusion and lack of belonging on campus. Now taught across the country, HSTEM seeks to prepare students, faculty, and staff to face moments of challenge and crisis as partners. Through this work, Bunnell and colleagues are working to support educators across the country to work in partnership with their students to enable all individuals in the community to thrive, as full humans, in the academy.
