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.