Featured Speakers
Honorable Bob Graham was elected to serve as a member of the United States Senate from 1987-2005 and as Governor of Florida from 1979-1987. Senator Graham received a bachelor's degree in 1959 from the University of Florida where he was inducted into the University of Florida Hall of Fame and Florida Blue Key. He later earned his LLB from Harvard Law School in 1962. Bob Graham is highly regarded as one of Florida's senior statesmen for his extensive intellectual and personal contributions through his leadership in public service. He is also popular for his own work ethic and commitment to community service, as is evidenced by more than a year's worth of "work days" he spent laboring side-by-side with the people of Florida. After teaching at Harvard University for the 2005-2006 academic year, Senator Graham is now focused on promoting civic education and engagement for our nation's youngest citizens, while establishing two collegiate centers at the University of Florida and the University of Miami. These centers will provide graduate and undergraduate students with unique opportunities to train for future leadership positions while meeting current policymakers and taking courses in service-learning, critical thinking, language learning and studies of world cultures.
Barbara A. Holland, Ph.D. is world renowned for her work with provosts, CAOs, and senior administrators, toward the advancement of engaged scholarship in higher education. A frequent facilitator of campus-based dialogue, Dr. Holland works with academicians around the globe as they seek to lead their respective campuses into a culture of engaged education. In addition, she is Director of the National Service Learning Clearinghouse, a senior scholar, an accomplished researcher and a widely published author/editor. Dr. Holland also served as a loaned executive to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as Visiting Director of the Office of University Partnerships (2000-2002), where she managed a $40 million grant program. Prior to that, she was a senior academic executive at Northern Kentucky University and Portland State University where she contributed to significant advancement of service-curricula, faculty roles, and civic engagement programs. Since 1997 she has been Executive Editor of Metropolitan Universities journal, the quarterly journal of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. Currently serving at Indiana-Purdue, on professional sabbatical in Syndey, Australia, Dr. Holland will return to the United States to participate in our All-Florida Day and the International Research Conference.
Patti Clayton, Ph.D., is Coordinator of the North Carolina State Service-Learning Program and a Visiting Lecturer in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She also works closely with the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Extension and Engagement and with The Caldwell Programs, the university's most selective leadership development program. She has an M.S. (1992) and Ph.D. (1995) from the Curriculum in Ecology at UNC-Chapel Hill and undergraduate degrees in English, Biology, and Environmental Studies (1989) from NC State. Dr. Clayton's interests are highly interdisciplinary and include civic engagement, environmental ethics and policy, history and philosophy of science, leadership and ethics, and innovative approaches to teaching and learning. She has provided leadership to the Service-Learning Program since its inception in 1999, developing and co-facilitating faculty development workshops and reflection leader training, co-authoring the program's reflection framework and assessment strategy, supporting a campus-wide strategic planning process, and integrating service-learning in all of her own courses. She also works with middle and high schools as well as with other colleges and universities on the development, implementation, and refinement of their service-learning initiatives.
Tim Stanton, Ph.D., hails from Stanford University where he is Director of the Public Service Medical Scholars program (PriSMS) and is a lecturer in Health Research Policy in the School of Medicine. As a lecturer, Dr. Stanton instructs graduate and undergraduate service-learning courses that focus on public decision-making in local communities and the process and practice of community service. From 1985 to 1999 he served as Associate Director and Director of Stanford's Haas Center for Public Service. The Haas Center involves more than 2,500 students annually in a wide variety of public and community service activities, while organizing faculty, students, and community-based professionals to develop curricula that combine community service-based learning with academic study. Dr. Stanton is the past-president of the National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE). He consults extensively in service-learning program development and assessment for organizations such as the National Commission on Resources for Youth, The U.S. Department of Education, NSEE, and Campus Compact.
Steven G. Jones, Ph.D., is a former QEP evaluator for SACS, and now Coordinator of the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. Prior to this, he was the Associate Director of the Integrating Service with Academic Studies project at Campus Compact from 2002-2004. Dr. Jones received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Utah in 1995 and was an associate professor of political science at the University of Charleston from 1995-2002, where he also served as Director of the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Government Studies. He edited the second edition of Campus Compact's Introduction to Service Learning Toolkit and is a co-author of two other Campus Compact monographs, The Community's College: Indicators of Engagement at Two-Year Institutions and The Promise of Partnerships: Tapping into the Campus as a Community Asset. He is also co-editor of Quick Hits for Educating Citizens (Indiana University Press, 2006).
Marshall Welch, Ph.D., has been at the University of Utah since 1987 as a faculty member in the Department of Special Education. Dr. Welch was department chair for the last two years of his faculty appointment before being appointed Director of the Lowell Bennion Community Center in May of 2001. He began teaching a service-learning course addressing issues of children and became involved with the Bennion Center. He served on several advisory committees of the Bennion Center and was named the Borchard Service-Learning Faculty Fellow in 1996-97 providing assistance to other campus faculty interested in service-learning courses. He and his staff hosted the 3rd annual conference on the Advances of Research in Service-Learning in 2003 and the Campus Compact Institute for Community Service Directors in 2004. He continues to teach a service-learning course on civic engagement. His scholarly interests are in the area of service-learning, civic engagement, and community-based research. Dr. Welch has co-edited a book on the research of service-learning, and he is a popular national and international presenter on the topic. He earned his doctorate in Special Education from Southern Illinois University in 1987.
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