Name:	Brenda Marsteller Kowalewski
Title:	Co-Director of the Community Involvement Center and Professor of Sociology
Department:	Community Involvement Center and Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
Organization:	Weber State University
Phone:	(801) 626-7737
Email:	bkowalewski [a] weber.edu
Address:	2913 University Circle Ogden, UT 84408-2913

Brief Biography:
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.

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