Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Danielle N. Wagner, Purdue University; Sukrati Gautam, Purdue University; Peyman Yousefi, Merck Group; Nuela Chidubem Enebechi, Purdue University; Andrew Pierce, Purdue University; William C. Oakes, Purdue University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

. Likewise, the infrastructure in place to facilitate the courses,whether software or physical resources, can impact the GTA experience in positive and negativeways.The interpersonal network for a EPICS GTA is complicated, with large variation in perceived‘rank’ of individuals that must be navigated by the GTA (Figure 2). These relationships can oftenconflict and create sources of stress for the GTA, who is likely already in an intense phase ofpersonal formation and building self-efficacy. A common cause of such conflict arises from having‘dotted-line’ management. GTA’s in general often balance multiple roles with differentsupervisors, including at minimum their direct supervisor for their TA position and their researchadvisor if applicable

Conference Session

Empowering Students and Strengthening Community Relationships

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Heidi Lynn Morano, Lawrence Technological University; Matthew L. Cole, Lawrence Technological University

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division (COMMENG)

service-learning onempathy development [6]. 5.3 Future WorkFuture research should prioritize the development and utilization of multidimensional empathymeasures that can capture the nuanced changes in both affective and cognitive empathy [10, 27].Additionally, researchers are exploring alternative classroom interventions to help studentsdevelop empathy for their end-user in the early stages of the design thinking process to enhancestudents’ empathetic self-efficacy. Investigating the longitudinal effects of service-learningexperiences and classroom empathy-building activities have on empathy could provide valuableinsights into the sustainability of empathy development over time.Does trait empathy development in these educational contexts