Award Recognition and Reception
Featured Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
Sylvia Hurtado
Professor and Director of the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA
in the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences
Just
prior to coming to UCLA, she served as Director of the Center for the
Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan.
Dr. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary
interest in student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact
on student development, and diversity in higher education. She has served
on numerous editorial boards for journals in education and served on the
boards for the American Association of Higher Education (AAHE), the Higher
Learning Commission, and is past-President of the Association for the
Study of Higher Education (ASHE). Black Issues In Higher Education named
her among the top 15 influential faculty whose work has had an impact
on the academy. She obtained her Ph.D. in Education from UCLA, Ed.M. from
Harvard Graduate School of Education, and A.B. from Princeton University
in Sociology.
Dr. Hurtado has coordinated several national research projects, including a U.S. Department of Education-sponsored project on how colleges are preparing students to achieve the cognitive, social, and democratic skills to participate in a diverse democracy. She is launching a National Institutes of Health project on the preparation of underrepresented students for biomedical and behavioral science research careers. She has also studied assessment, reform, and innovation in undergraduate education on a project through the National Center for Postsecondary Improvement.
Rick BattistoniProfessor and Chair of Political Science, Providence College
Battistoni is Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College. For the past 20 years, Rick has been a leader in the field of service-learning, especially as it relates to questions of civic education and engagement. From 1994-2000, he served as the founding Director of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service at Providence College, the first degree-granting program combining community service with the curriculum. Rick also has developed and directed service-learning efforts at Rutgers and Baylor Universities. His major service-learning publications include Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum: A Resource Book for Faculty in all Disciplines.
Elizabeth Coleman
President of Bennington College
Coleman
is the ninth president of Bennington College, a position she has held
since 1987. She has worked as a professor of literature at SUNY Stony
Brook and then at the New School for Social Research, where she founded
and served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She has been a
consultant to the Annenberg Corporation on a public broadcasting project
and a visiting fellow at the Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, California.
She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Neurosciences Institute,
the Committee for Economic Development, and the Council of Advisors for
the European College of Liberal Arts. In February 2009 she delivered the
closing speech at the 25th Anniversary TED Conference in Long Beach, CA
entitled "Engage," see the video here.
She also gave the keynote address at the Artes Liberales General Conference
in Warsaw on "The Relationship between Liberal Education, Freedom
and Democracy" and at the Getty Museum on "Art, Artists and
the Challenge of Liberal Education."
Julie Elkins
Director, Academic Initiatives National Campus Compact
Dr. Julie Elkins is the new Director of Academic Initiatives with National Campus Compact. She provides leadership and strategic focus for Campus Compact’s work to embed civic and community engagement within teaching and research activities at the more than 1,100 member colleges and universities representing over 6 million students. Dr. Elkins advises and collaborates with the network of 35 state Campus Compact offices on strategies to promote engaged campuses and the scholarship of engagement, including professional development opportunities for faculty and administrators. Dr. Elkins hold a BA in Social Work from Central Missouri State University, a MS in Student Personnel Service and Counseling from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and a Doctorate of Education from UMASS-Boston.
Jillian Kinzie
Associate Director, Indiana University Center for Postsecondary
Research and the NSSE Institute for Effective Educational Practice
Kinzie
coordinates research and project activities to facilitate the use of student
engagement data to promote educational effectiveness. She earned her Ph.D.
in Higher Education with a minor in Women's Studies at Indiana University
Bloomington. Prior to this, she was a faculty member in the Higher Education
and Student Affairs department at Indiana University, served as Assistant
Dean in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University (OH)
and had earlier experience in student affairs at Miami where she coordinated
orientation, advising, and first-year experience activities, and also
worked at Case Western Reserve University.
She's co-author of Student Success in College: Creating Conditions that Matter (Jossey-Bass, 2005); One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice (Routledge, 2006), and Piecing Together the Student Success Puzzle: Research, Propositions, and Recommendations (Jossey Bass, 2007). She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of College Student Development, on the Board of Contributors of About Campus, and is on the Advisory Board of the National Resource Center for the First Year Experience and Students in Transition. In 2001, she was awarded a Student Choice Award for Outstanding Faculty at Indiana University and in 2005 she received the Robert J. Menges Honored Presentation by the Professional Organizational Development (POD) Network.
George Mehaffy
Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change, American Association
of State Colleges and Universities
George L. Mehaffy, Ph. D, is the Vice President for Academic Leadership
and Change for the American Association of State Colleges and Universities
(AASCU). His division is responsible for a number of special programs
and projects for AASCU presidents and chief academic officers in the areas
of leadership and organizational change in higher education, focusing
on issues such as technology, teacher education, international education,
and civic engagement. He organizes and directs two national conferences
annually for AASCU chief academic officers and manages a variety of leadership
programs and special projects. Much of his current work focuses on
civic engagement in higher education. In 2003 he launched a civic
engagement initiative, the American Democracy Project (ADP), in partnership
with The New York Times, involving 214 AASCU institutions representing
1.8 million students. That project has generated a broad range of
national and campus-based activities, including 10 regional and 4 national
meetings, a Wingspread Conference that created a monograph for senior
university leaders, a partnership with the National Survey of Student
Engagement (NSSE) to develop an instrument to assess civic engagement,
and a trip to eastern Europe to develop university partnerships to promote
civic engagement.
John Saltmarsh
Director, New England Resource Center for Higher Education and
Professor in the Department of Leadership in Education, Graduate college
of Education, University of Massachusetts, Boston
John Saltmarsh, Ph.D., is the Director of the New England Resource Center
for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston
as well as a faculty member in the Department of Leadership in Education
in the Graduate College of Education. From 1998 through 2005, he directed
the Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact.
He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Boston University and taught
for over a decade at Northeastern University and as a Visiting Research
Fellow at the Feinstein Institute for Public Service at Providence College.
He is the author of Scott Nearing: An Intellectual Biography
(Temple, 1991) as well as numerous book chapters and articles on civic
engagement, service-learning, and experiential education that have been
widely published.
Nancy Thomas
Everyday Democracy
Nancy Thomas currently works for Everyday Democracy, working with campuses,
education associations, public agencies, and communities organizing dialogue-to-change
programs. She also directs the Democracy Imperative at the University
of New Hampshire. Her experience includes campus and community conflict
prevention and resolution, organizational change, strategic planning,
faculty development, diversity initiatives, curriculum reform, ethics
training, and community building. In the past, Nancy has served as director
of democracy initiatives and the religion and public life initiative for
the Society for Values in Higher Education; special assistant to the president
for legal policy affairs at Western New England College, director of Listening
to Communities for the American Council on Education; adjunct faculty
member at the Graduate College of Education, University of Massachusetts
Boston’ interim associate vice provost for multicultural and international
affairs at the university of Connecticut; and facilitator for the American
Association for Higher Education’s community of practice on dialogue
and deliberation as pedagogical tools.
Edward Zlotkowski
Professor of English at Bentley College and senior associate
at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education
Edward
Zlotkowski is senior associate at the New England Resource Center for
Higher Education and author of Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience.
Edward is a professor of English at Bentley College and in 1990 founded
the Bentley Service-Learning Center. He received his B.A. in English and
his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. He writes and
speaks extensively on a wide range of service-learning and engagement-related
topics, and served as general editor of the American Association for Higher
Education's 21-volume series on service-learning in the academic disciplines.
He also served as editor of Successful Service-Learning Programs, published
by Anker in 1998, Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience, published
by the University of South Carolina in 2002, and as co-editor of Students
as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership, published
by Campus Compact in 2006. A collection of his essays will be published
in 2010 by Temple University Press. Dr. Zlotkowski is a senior associate
at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
