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Consultant: Donna Duffy

Name: Donna Duffy
Title: Professor
Department: Psychology
Organization: Middlesex Community College
Phone: (781) 280-3909
Fax: (781) 280-3906
Email: duffyd [a] middlesex.mass.edu
Address: 591 Springs Road
Bedford, MA 01730

Brief Biography:
Donna Killian Duffy is professor of psychology and coordinator of the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Middlesex Community College, Bedford and Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the coauthor, with Janet Wright Jones, of Teaching Within the Rhythms of the Semester, and the coeditor, with Robert Bringle, of With Service in Mind, a monograph on service-learning and psychology, published in 1998. Donna received the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning in 1999 for her work connecting service in the community to student learning in classrooms. She has worked as an Engaged Scholar with Campus Compact and is one of the authors of The Community's College: Indicators of Engagement at Two-Year Institutions published in 2004 and Service-Learning Course Design for Community Colleges published in 2007.

Areas of Expertise

1. Current or Past Roles

  • Faculty Member

2. Types of Consulting

  • Interactive presentations
  • Discussion / dialogue facilitation
  • Speeches
  • Technical assistance

3. Types of civic and community engagement

  • Service-learning or community-based learning courses
  • Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
  • Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula

4. Related knowledge

  • Scholarship of teaching and learning
  • Communications/telling our stories effectively
  • Reflection
  • Faculty development

5. Public issues addressed through engagement

  • K-12 education
  • Parenting / child development
  • Literacy
  • Consulting Corps College access and success
  • Senior / elder issues
  • Mental health

6. Types of campuses

  • Public
  • Two-year

7. Academic areas

  • Consulting Corps Education
  • Social sciences

Thanks for your continued outstanding leadership at Campus Compact. Your publications and programs are always top-notch. I sincerely appreciate all you have done for us in the trenches."

-William F. Moeller, Director, Center for Civic Education and Service, Florida State University