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Consultant: Carol Wolf
| Name: | Carol Wolf |
| Title: | Associate Professor of Education and Coordinator, CLASS PDS Program |
| Department: | English |
| Organization: | University of Maine-Machias |
| Phone: | (207) 255-1264 |
| Fax: | (207) 255-4864 |
| Email: | cwolf [a] maine.edu |
| Address: | 9 O'Brien Avenue Machias, ME 04654 |
Brief Biography:
Dr. Carol Wolf lives and works on the rugged coast of Downeast Maine where the University of Maine at Machias has its home. Carol is a member of the English faculty. She also directs the campus Study Center and coordinates UMM's Service Learning and Early College Programs. In 2005, she received a Campus Civic Stewardship Award from Maine Campus Compact for her facilitation of faculty efforts to make service learning an integral part of UMM's academic life. Carol has been involved with college access and success activities throughout her career, beginning with outreach programming at SUNY Stony Brook designed to bring more women and minority students into college science, technology, and engineering majors. In addition to her current work at UMM with the interrelationship of access, success and civic engagement, Carol is affiliated with Maine's MELMAC Education Foundation, supporting high schools that have received grants to raise the aspirations and college enrollment and persistence rates of their graduates.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Faculty Member
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
- Technical assistance
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- P-20 partnerships
4. Related knowledge
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Partnership development
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- K-12 education
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- Consulting Corps College access and success
- Tutoring
6. Types of campuses
- Liberal arts
- Public
- Rural
- Four-year
- Small town or suburban
7. Academic areas
- General education
- Humanities
Campus Compact's workshops have been extremely valuable. Faculty often become energized by the workshop content and bring that enthusiasm back to campus.
-California State University-Stanislaus
