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Consultant: Charles Strain
| Name: | Charles Strain |
| Title: | Associate Vice President/Professor |
| Department: | Academic Affairs/Religious Studies |
| Organization: | DePaul University |
| Phone: | (312) 362-5730 |
| Fax: | (312) 362-5776 |
| Email: | cstrain [a] depaul.edu |
| Address: | 1 East Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604-2287 |
Brief Biography:
As Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, I have worked on strategic planning for the Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning since its inception in 1998 and supervised its leadership. As a faculty member, I have taught service learning classes for the past ten years. I have written and published on the institutionalization of community engagement activities in higher education and have researched and published several articles on service learning and students' moral development. Currently I am collaborating with Student Affairs in bridging the curricular and co-curricular forms of community engagement at DePaul University.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Academic administrator
- Faculty Member
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- Research about civic and community engagement
- International engagement
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Political engagement
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
4. Related knowledge
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
- Fundraising
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Student development
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Institutional change in higher education
- Faculty development
- Reflection
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Poverty
- Immigration / migration
- Tutoring
- International / global citizenship issues
6. Types of campuses
- Liberal arts
- Four-year
- Urban
- Religiously affiliated
- Private
7. Academic areas
- Interdisciplinary programs
- Humanities
- General education
I have always had a drive to serve others and work for the common good. But I never fully realized that I could go beyond volunteerism--that my opinion and hard work could influence policy decisions. My views changed when I sat in the office of one of my legislators in Washington, DC.
-Amanda Coffin, University of Maine at Farmington, Campus Compact student leader