Structured Reflection is a critical framework for learning that is supported and encouraged by the Center of Civic Engagement. Student leaders, known as Civic Engagement Scholars, prepare, reflections as part of their paid work to support CCE programs. ​

At Kalamazoo College, structured reflection has institutional support and is represented in research and teaching methods. Cunningham and Grossman defined structured reflection as the following: ​

Structured Reflection is a process that can catalyze transformative learning (i.e., learning that ultimately fosters a change in habit of mind, or change in frame of reference) by employing intentionally designed exercises, activities, or assignments that help students (and others) interrogate, make connections between, and examine consonance or dissonance between assumptions held, theories and concepts, and experiences encountered.​

Cunningham, K. 2010. Putting the anthropological toolkit to use in international and intercultural learning. Practical Anthropology 32(3): 23-26.

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