Aligning Living-Learning Community Outcomes with Place-Informed Career, Community,
and Industry Engagement Goals: Opportunity Areas.
10-10:50am
Location: Pollock B
Type: Informative/panel
Audience: Living Learning Communites
Presenters: Garrett Tur, Jeff Eads, and Dixie Denton, Ball State University
This session is a collaborative effort, bringing together practitioners from Ball
State Living-Learning Communities, Teachers College, and the Office of Industry Engagement.
We aim to provide an interdivisional perspective on opportunity areas, emphasizing
the importance of industry and community relations stakeholders in connecting with
students through intentional and immersive experiences. Through community-engaged
learning, we address the learning inequalities that arise from background and class
differences and student career development outcomes through place-based learning (Holmes,
2024). This collaborative approach offers practical benefits for internal and external
funding to support immersive pedagogy. It creates a pathway for increased buy-in from
community and industry partners through student engagement with the community and
region.
