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It was my second year at Western Washington University (WWU) and my first introduction to what would become the most significant experience of my college career. Carmen Werder, the director of the Teaching-Learning Academy (TLA) and my advisor and professor, offered me a job working for her program. The TLA, as I came to learn, is an initiative to promote the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) at WWU—a forum for studying and enhancing the learning culture at Western through dialogue and collective action among students, faculty, staff, administrators, and community members. TLA resulted from Western’s participation in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (CASTL).
Megan M. Otis is a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Western Washington University and a co-editor of and contributing author for the book Engaging Student Voices in the Study of Teaching and Learning (Stylus Publishing, 2010).
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