Campus Compact » Consulting Corps College access and success

Cathy Jordan

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Jackie Schmidt-Posner

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Jackie has over 2 decades of experience in service-learning. She is a strong presenter, having led many service-learning presentations to various audiences over the years. Great at doing SL 101 or strategizing about institutionalization at Research Universities.

Cathy Avila-Linn

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Cathy is an excellent facilitator. She has a strong background in Student Leadership, as well as a lot of experience working with EOP/Summer Bridge programs. She is calm, mature, and very detail-oriented. She is our consultant on a professional development program for service-learning professional (focusing on diversity). She was trained under Nadinne Cruz at the Stanford Haas Center for Public Service

Christine Cress

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent facilitation and training skills; Outstanding research, evaluation, and assessment skills and a great trainer on these subjects as well. Expertise in higher education; research on service learning; I have used her repeatedly for trainings, consultations with campuses, and for our own evaluation, research and assessment work. She is a faculty member and chair of her department, so she carries that clout as well.Strong background in student affairs, career development, faculty development, and diversity work.

Nadinne Cruz

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent experience in service-learning, diversity, community partnerships; Inspirational speaker – eloquent with words; excellent facilitation skills; process oriented

Christopher Nayve

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent workshop presenter; Strong student development skills; A young student affairs leader of service learning and diversity; great to work with; dynamic speaker

John Loggins

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent workshop presenter; Youthful african-american male presenter with excellent understanding of service-learning implementation on a small, faith-based college campus; Dynamic presenter; Easy to work with

Tania D. Mitchell

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent interactive workshop presenter; extensive understanding and utilization of service learning; formerly with CSU Monterey Bay; strong faculty skills and facilitation skills. Dynamic, african-american female presenter.

Duane Oakes

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent experience implementing Service learning at a community college; good presenter on workshop or panel. Easy to work with (have utilized him once or twice)

Kathleen Rice

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Excellent facilitator; Great communication skills; Excellent writer; Deeply knowledgeable about service learning, national service field, higher education, campus compact, and faculty development; Experience working with numerous higher education institutions. Expertise in diversity and cultural sensitivity work.

Julie Reed

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Strong experience doing faculty development workshops for a number of colleges. Excellent understanding of service learning and national field.

Gary Daynes

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Gary’s passion, leadership and expertise in Civic Engagement is a tremendous asset to our Compact. He is talented facilitator, global thinker and problem solver. He is always willing to share. Gary is a trusted colleague.

Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski is a professor of sociology and co-director of the Community Involvement Center (CIC) at Weber State University. As a professor, she has incorporated community-based research (CBR) projects into her social science research methods course for the last five years and has been a practitioner of service-learning for the last fourteen years. Kowalewski has received several grants to conduct a longitudinal CBR project with and for a youth development program for ‘at-risk’ youth. Additionally, Kowalewski, as a member of the Utah Campus Compact Faculty Consulting Corps, worked collaboratively with colleagues from across the state to assess the statewide impact of service on community partners, faculty and students. Currently, in her role as co-director of the CIC, Kowalewski is actively exploring how Weber State University can support, via service, a statewide initiative to improve college access and success for non-traditionally college bound populations in Ogden, UT. Kowalewski is one of the two founding co-directors of the CIC. This center was created as an intentional partnership between academic affairs and students affairs and has a co-director from each of these areas.

Georgia Nigro

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Georgia has over fifteen years of experience with service learning. She has used different forms of service learning in both lower and upper level courses. One particular area of interest is in community based research. Georgia and her students have partnered with a large variety of agencies that serve children and youth.

Carol Wolf

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Carol has been a faculty member and service learning coordinator at U. Maine at Machias for many years. She has been particularly successful at integrating civic engagement with college access and success programming.

Wanda Kanwischer

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Wanda has institutionalized service learning as rapidly as anyone I’ve seen. She thinks systemically and would provide valuable technical support to 2 year institutions.

Mary Ange Cooksey

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I have had the unique opportunity of working professionally with Ange Cooksey and also watching her train members. She is a profound speaker/presenter and has well over 10 years experience with service-learning and campus community partnerships. At ICC, we have called on her expertise numerous times — most recently to pull together campus/community research and write our "Crossroads and Common Ground" publication. Her expertise areas include Criterion Five, institutionalization of service-learning and civic engagement, and campus/community reciprocal relationships.

Adam Weinberg

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Adam is very supportive of Campus Compact\’s work.

J. Richard Kendrick, Jr.

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Richard Kendrick (Ph.D., Syracuse University) is the founding director of SUNY Cortland’s Institute for Civic Engagement. He has held this position for the past five years, and he has been a service-learning practitioner since 1994. He oversees a program that includes service-learning, community outreach, and economic development initiatives. He has been successful at working with faculty, staff, students, and community partners to attract funding from local, state, and national funding sources (e.g., the MacDonald Foundation, New York Campus Compact, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission). At the same time he has been successful at institutionalizing the college’s commitment to its civic mission. He has published on service-learning in the discipline of sociology, the effects of service-learning, and on student participation in the electoral process. SUNY Cortland is affiliated with New York Campus Compact and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ American Democracy Project, it is on the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, and it recently obtained Carnegie Foundation recognition in its Community Engagement category. For more information about the Institute for Civic Engagement and its programs, please see the most recent newsletter at www.cortland.edu/civicengagement/news_archive/index.html.

Heather Sullivan-Catlin

tdomf_26a6d — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Dr Sullivan Catlin has worked with faculty in various
disciplines and with fellow department chairs to advance service-learning,
campus/community partnerships, and community-based participatory research.
She is a well-prepared and engaging workshop leader.