Indicators of Engagement Project
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Jennifer Meeropol |
Project Coordinator
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Donna Killian Duffy |
Campus Compact Community College Engaged Scholar |
Robert Franco |
Campus Compact Community College Engaged Scholar |
Edward Zlotkowski |
Senior Fellow |
Sherril Gelmon |
Evaluator |
Katrina Norvell |
Evaluator |
Jennifer Meeropol, Project Coordinator
401-867-3921 or jmeeropol@compact.org
Jenn Meeropol joined Campus Campact in October of 2000. As Coordinator of the Indicators of Engagement Project, she oversees the daily management of all project activities. Before coming to the Compact, Jenn worked in higher education administration at Harvard Medical School and at Brown University. She received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.A. from Brown University. She is currently on leave from the doctoral program in American Civilization at Brown.
Donna Killian Duffy, Campus Compact Community College Engaged Scholar
Dr. Duffy is Professor of Psychology at Middlesex Community College and is the coeditor of With Service in Mind, an AAHE monograph on service- learning and psychology, published in 1998. She received the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning in 1999 for her work connecting service in the community to student learning in classrooms and has presented and written extensively on the topic. She has worked with the American Psychological Association to create their website on service-learning and civic engagement and to introduce service-learning into programs for preparing future faculty.
Robert Franco, Campus Compact Community College Engaged Scholar
Dr. Franco is Director of Grants and Resources at Kapi'olani Community College, and is both a Service-Learning National Trainer for the National Youth Leadership Council Learn and Serve Exchange and a Service-Learning National Trainer for the Campus Compact National Center for Community Colleges. Dr. Franco is an expert on community colleges in the United States. He has visited over 100 of them, often as a consulting expert on how best to initiate and institutionalize service-learning and civic engagement programs at these institutions. He has presented and written extensively on the topic.
Edward Zlotkowski, Senior Fellow
Dr. Zlotkowski is a Professor of English at Bentley College, in Waltham, MA, where he founded the Bentley College Service-Learning Center in 1990. He is the Senior Faculty Fellow at Campus Compact and directs the Compact’s initiative on service-learning in the disciplines. He is the editor of Successful Service-Learning Programs (Anker, 1998) and Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience (Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2002). He also serves as series editor of the American Association for Higher Education’s 20-volume Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines.
Sherril Gelmon, Evaluator
Dr. Gelmon is Professor of Public Health at Portland State University. She has approximately 20 years of experience working in program evaluation, with the bulk of that work focused on evaluation of community-based health/social services delivery programs and/or educational programs. She is currently the Campus Compact Engaged Scholar on Assessment, focusing on assessing civic engagement and the disciplinary associations, and the Engaged Department initiative. Dr. Gelmon has written and presented extensively on evaluation design and methods, including the monograph published by Campus Compact in 2001 on assessment of the impact of service-learning of civic engagement, and a handbook on program evaluation for nonprofit organizations which she authored for the Northwest Health Foundation.
Katrina Norvell, Evaluator
Ms. Norvell is currently a doctoral student in the Public Administration and Policy program at Portland State University studying with Dr. Sherril Gelmon. Katrina worked as a research assistant on the evaluation of the Northwest Health Foundation funded project on community-based nursing education and also worked with Dr. Gelmon on the Packard-funded Leadership Fellows program, run through PSU's Institute for Nonprofit Management. Katrina has a number of years of work experience in community-based nonprofit management, in particular with organizations such as the United Way. She has a background in management and communications, with substantial professional experience as a strategic planner, fundraiser, trainer, researcher, program evaluator and facilitator of several collaborative efforts.
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