Bringing Theory to Practice

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) seeks to advance engaged student learning and determine how it might improve the quality of students’ education, development, health, and commitment to civic engagement.

Mission

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project (BTtoP) explores and promotes how engaged forms of learning requiring active student involvement and reflection contribute to the resiliency and health of students. The Project encourages faculty and academic leadership to strengthen an essential focus on learning, and thereby to strengthen the health, as well as the individual and civic development of today’s college students.

The Bringing Theory to Practice Project is sponsored by the Charles Engelhard Foundation of New York City and developed in partnership with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. It explores and advocates the academic community's support of engaged learning and the relationship of such learning to student health and civic development.

The project is guided by an interdisciplinary planning group of scholars, researchers, practitioners, and institutional leaders. Currently, there are over 300 colleges and universities across the nation connected to the project, many supported by grants, and many in discussion of these topics on their campuses.