Sturgill, associate professor of journalism, has been selected as the 2024-26 Center for Engaged Learning Scholar.
Amanda Sturgill, associate professor of journalism, has been selected as the 2024-26 Center for Engaged Learning (CEL) Scholar. During her term, she will focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and engaged learning in higher education.
In addition to her disciplinary research, including Ի (both published by Rowman & Littlefield), Sturgill has contributed to scholarship of þ and learning on community-based learning and study away. She co-led the center’s 2015-17 research seminar onԻ co-edited (published by Stylus).
The review committee noted that Sturgill’sexperience across engaged learning contexts and her expertise in journalism, communication and AI make her the right scholar to do this work at this time. Sturgill’s application reflected a strong alignment between the center’s goals and her own professional trajectory. This synergy will positively inform Sturgill’s contributions to the center’s open-access resources via blog posts, an annotated bibliography and other online resources.
During a two-year appointment,develop expertise in a specific aspect of engaged learning and create resources on that topic to be sharedthroughCEL’s websiteԻ in other scholarly venues. The CEL Scholar position is an opportunity for an Elon faculty member to develop and advance a professional development trajectory that includes scholarly activity on an engaged learning topic.
Sturgill is the seventh Elon faculty member to be named aCEL Scholar. Current and past CEL Scholars includeDavid Buck, Caroline Ketcham, Ketevan Kupatadze,Buffie Longmire-Avital,Phillip Motley, and Aaron Trocki. A call for applications for the 2025-27 CEL Scholar will be released in fall 2024.