The following is a list of administrators, faculty, and staff at our member institutions who are experts on civic engagement in higher education, service-learning, community-university partnerships, and other related fields. Click on the expert's name for a full profile and contact information.
Please note that this page is a work in progress. We will continue to add profiles and encourage you to e-mail us with nominations of potential experts.
Paul Benneworth
University of Twente, the Netherlands
Senior Researcher, Center for Higher Education Policy Studies
Expertise: How universities work with their stakeholders for greater community impacts; innovation and economic development in peripheral economic regions
Robert G. Bringle
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies
Executive Director, IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
Expertise: Service learning (e.g., course design, partnerships, reflection, assessment); Civic engagement (e.g., institutional infrastructure, scholarship of engagement, promotion and tenure); Student and faculty attitudes and motives; Institutionalization (e.g., portfolios, assessment, accreditation, engaged department initiatives); Assessment and measurement issues
Jude Butcher
Australian Catholic University, Australia
Director, Institute for Advancing Community Engagement
Professor of Community Engagement
Expertise: Social justice, international development, community engagement, socially supported education, education and community engagement and teachers’ professional development particularly in the classroom management domain
Antonio Sánchez Chacón
Universidad Señor de Sipán, Peru
Director of University Extension and Outreach
Expertise: Service learning projects, volunteering and corporate social responsibility
Amani Elshimi
American University in Cairo, Egypt
Senior Lecturer, Department of Rhetoric and Composition;
Director, Community Based Learning, John D. Gerhart Center for Philanthropy and Civic Engagement
Expertise: Various models of community-based service learning, and the impact of CBL on learning integration, learning transfer, critical and creative thinking, and writing skills
Judy Favish
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Director, Institutional Planning
Expertise: Social justice and education for empowerment; adult basic education; education in South Africa
Andrew Furco
University of Minnesota, USA
Associate Vice President for Public Engagement
Associate Professor, Educational Policy and Administration
Expertise: Institutionalization of service-learning; effects of public engagement activities on participating students, faculty, and institutions; assessment and program evaluation; community engagement in primary, secondary, and tertiary education
Steve Garlick
University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia
Professor of Regional Engagement
Expertise: Regional development theory and policy, higher education management, institutional performance assessment, university engagement with regions and communities, the ethics of place, and wildlife ethics and welfare
Angie Hart
University of Brighton, UK
Academic Director of the Community University Partnership Programme
Expertise: Community-university partnerships in theory and practice; writing and presenting with community partners; Inequalities and disadvantage; Applying insights from research to practice; User involvement in research and development; Client-practitioner relationships; Qualitative research methods; Resilient approaches
May Hazaz
Université Saint-Joseph, Lebanon
Director, Lebanese School for Social Training (ELFS)
Professor of Social Work Studies
Expertise: Social work; methodology of social and local development; war, women and empowerment; mediation for intercultural groups; social intervention in crisis and emergency situation; qualitative research; supervision and consultation (individual and institutional)
Barbara Holland
University of Western Sydney, Australia
Pro-Vice Chancellor of Engagement
Expertise: Implementation and assessment of community-based learning, engaged scholarship, and community-campus partnerships; institutionalization of community engagement and organizational change strategies
Vincent Ilustre
Tulane University, USA
Executive Director, Center for Public Service
Expertise: Institutional Infrastructure (e.g., program design and development, internal relationship building and systems design); Campus-Community Partnerships (empowering constituencies, practical community application); Service Learning (faculty and community programming, course design); International Program Development
Kevin Kecskes
Portland State University, USA
Associate Vice Provost for Engagement
Director for Community-University Partnerships
Expertise: Community Based Learning; Service Learning; community-university partnerships; faculty development; civic engagement; democratic education; education
Lorraine McIlrath
National University of Ireland, Galway
Project Coordinator and Academic Staff Developer (Service Learning) at the Community Knowledge Initiative
Expertise: The role of education in contested societies, civic engagement and higher education, conflict transformation and democratic participation
Juliet Millican
University of Brighton, UK
Student Learning Development Manager, Community University Partnership Programme
Expertise: Student community engagement, curriculum development, and the potential of Community-University partnerships in post conflict societies
Eric Mlyn
Duke University, USA
Director, DukeEngage
Expertise: Domestic and International Civic Engagement Program Design and Development; University partnerships with Volunteer Service Organizations; The role of American Universities in Civic Engagement
Barbara E. Moely
Tulane University, USA
Professor Emerita of Psychology
Research Affiliate of the Center for Public Service
Expertise: Impacts of service-learning on college students and community partners; development of community partnerships; VISTA program participation
Nada Moghaizel-Nasr
Université Saint-Joseph, Lebanon
Dean, Faculty of Educational Sciences; Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences
Expertise: Learning mechanisms; teacher training; citizenship education
Joyce Nduna
Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
Director, Community Engagement & Work Integrated Learning
Expertise: Service-Learning e.g. institutionalization, planning, implementation, reflection and evaluation of SL with relevant partners/stakeholders; building and nurturing partnerships for Civic Engagement
William M. Plater
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Chancellor's Professor
Director, Office of International Community Development
Expertise: International civic engagement and service learning; faculty work; assessment; use of technology in learning; leadership
Judith A. Ramaley
Winona State University, USA
President
Expertise: Institutional administration; leadership of change; development of university-community collaborations; science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels; civic responsibility; economic and community development on a regional and statewide basis
Gail Scordilis
Smith College, USA
Director of Educational Outreach
Expertise: Science outreach; girls’ empowerment; community-university partnerships
Dilafruz Williams
Portland State University, USA
Professor of Educational Policy, Foundations, and Administrative Studies in the Graduate School of Education; professor of public administration in the Mark O’ Hatfield School of Government
Expertise: Community-Higher Education-Schools Strategic Partnership Development; Civic Engagement/Service Learning; Professional Development; Sustainability Education; Environmental Education; Learning Gardens-Based Education: Curriculum Design and Research; K-12 Public Policy
Wendy Wrench
Rhodes University, South AfricaLecturer: Pharmacy Administration and Practice
Expertise: Service-learning in the pharmacy and health fields
