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Some reflections on what I have learnt at PennState

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The Schreyer Center for Teaching Excellence Its been nearly a month now since I have come back from my three months stint at PennState, where I spent my Fulbright from February - May 2022.  It was such a treat to spend three months in a new environment, on my own. I will reflect in a different post on what I learnt for and about myself during this time, but here I would like to share some of the insights I gained by being embedded in a Centre for Learning and Teaching at a large state-funded College in the States. I have been thinking about this for a while, people have asked me what my observations were, but it took me a while to settle into this process. This morning I woke up and somehow the list was here. So here it is, in no particular order:  The Higher Education Landscape in the US is changing I must admit before joining the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence at PennState I didn't know much about the US Higher Education system. What I have learnt, is that it is fas