Conference Presentation Resources

This session the product of a collaborative effort, bringing together practitioners from Ball State Living-Learning Communities and industry engagement. This model is an interdivisional perspective on opportunity areas, emphasizing the importance of industry and community stakeholders in connecting with students through 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 to create pathways for increased buy-in from stakeholders through student engagement with the community and region.

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1. Local Place-based Learning at Whitely Community and the Education Living-Learning Community (Photos Only)

2. Social Sciences and Education Living-Learning Communities visit the Indiana Statehouse (Photos and Narrative)

3. Former CFO of the Indianapolis Colts visits Business Living-Learning Community students (Photos Only)

You can find the Ball State Living-Learning Community Website at bsu.edu/housing/llc

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.

Presenters: Garrett Tur, DeAnna Katey, Melissa Foreman, and Pam Geddes, Ball State University, Virginia Tech, University of Connecticut, Northeastern Illinois University

Through a panel with representatives from four universities in different geographic areas with distinct student bodies, we will provide our perspectives on how we build and cultivate a sense of belonging in the Living Learning Communities programs at our respective institutions. Although several similarities exist among our approaches, many differences make each institution unique. Looking closer at the strategies and methods we use to build that sense of belonging will allow us to share what works well and the challenges we face when implementing this work. In attending this session, attendees will gain a high-level understanding of how the institutional contexts of our practices led to the sense of belonging strategies we utilize-scaling practices through conversations and dialogue with different institutional contexts and partners.