<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/releases/2020/davis-grant.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>University News</category><pubDate>08/25/2020</pubDate><title>English Professors Create Program to Enhance Teaching and Enrich Student Engagement</title><description>Jenna Sheffield, Ph.D., and Mary Isbell, Ph.D., want students to be active learners, and their initiative to foster student and faculty collaboration during course development has recently received funding from a leading educational foundation.</description><hide-description/><author>Renee Chmiel, Office of Marketing and Communications</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>August 25, 2020</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/2020/isbell-sheffield.jpg" alt="Dr. Mary Isbell and Dr. Jenna Sheffield"/></image><image-caption>Dr. Mary Isbell (left) and Dr. Jenna Sheffield at the Johnson Family Writing Awards, a program they initiated with Peter Johnson '81.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-releases</tag><tag>year-2020</tag></tags></item>