Book: Instructional Strategies

The Power of Partnership: Students, Staff, and Faculty Revolutionizing Higher Education

Lucy Mercer-Mapstone and Sophia Abbot (Eds.)

Our Recommendation
This book is filled with student perspectives and chapters co-authored by student-faculty/staff partners who share their experiences working in partnership together. In our partnership program, we regularly use chapters from this book to help us reflect on and make meaning of our own experiences.

The Power of Partnership celebrates the nuance and depth of student-faculty partnerships in higher education and illustrates the many ways that partnership—the equitable collaboration among students, staff, and faculty in support of teaching and learning—has the potential to transform lives and institutions.

The book aims to break the mold of traditional and power-laden academic writing by showcasing creative genres such as reflection, poetry, dialogue, illustration, and essay. The collection has invited chapters from renowned scholars in the field alongside new student and staff voices, and it reflects and embodies a wide range of student-staff partnership perspectives from different roles, identities, cultures, countries, and institutions.