George Kuh

First of all, I think maybe I should say CUZARK isn't my project alone.

It is, uh, it was founded by my colleague, Federica Zambeletti, wh- with, um, her previous colleague, George Kuh, hence the name CUZ.

Um, and I think, I believe it was set up as a platform primarily for student work and thinking because it was, because both the, both the founders were students or recent graduates at the time, and they found that there was n- no platform that would accommodate the level of sheer mental activity and production [laughs] that student work entails, which is a lot.

So that's why it was initially set up, and indeed, I joined after various incidences of having fingers burnt in other editorial enterprises.

I don't think I realized that ...

Sorry, I'm trying to think of the best way to describe this.

Somebody told me, a colleague told me that they had overheard a student saying, "It's cool that we have a Brown female teacher." And it was the first time I had realized that I was actually visible to students.

I know that sounds stupid, but when you're not thinking about it, you're not thinking about it.

When we ask students to think of a specific critical incident or moment that changed them profoundly, four-fifths of them chose a situation or event outside the classroom." Close quote.

Likewise, in a 2008 study, George Kuh, the founding director of the widely used National Survey of Student Engagement, identified 10 teaching and learning practices that have especially high impact on students.

Five of those, including such things as internships, service learning, and undergraduate research, involved activities that would easily fit into the category of experiential learning.

Other studies underscore the point.