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Consultant: Garry Hesser
| Name: | Garry Hesser |
| Title: | Sabo Professor of Citizenship and Learning & Professor of Sociology and Metro-Urban Studies |
| Department: | Sociology and Metro-Urban Studies |
| Organization: | Augsburg College |
| Phone: | (612) 330-1664 |
| Fax: | (612) 330-1649 |
| Email: | hesser [a] augsburg.edu |
| Address: | 2211 Riverside Ave. Minneapolis, MN 55454 |
Brief Biography:
Garry Hesser is Professor of Sociology and past Chair of the Natural and Social Sciences Division (1996-2006) at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He teaches courses on Community, Urban Sociology, Urban Planning, Religion and Society, and Introductory Sociology. He chairs the Metro-Urban Studies program and currently serves as a Visiting Professor in Planning and Public Policy at the University of Minnesota (Humphrey Institute). He has led faculty workshops on service-learning, civic engagement, and experiential education on more than sixty campuses. Recent honors include: 2008 Inaugural Appointment as Sabo Endowment Scholar in Citizenship and Civic Engagement, Augsburg; 2007 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Phillips University; 2004 Carnegie-Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Professor of the Year (Minnesota); 2004 Distinguished Professor Award, Augsburg; 2002 Distinguished Sociologist of Minnesota Award, Sociologists of Minnesota; 2001 Pioneer in Experiential Education Award, National Society for Experiential Education; 2001 Outstanding Faculty Award, Augsburg graduating class; 1998 Thomas Ehrlich Award, Campus Compact, for national leadership and scholarship in advancing the field of service-learning as a teacher, researcher, and community partner.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Academic administrator
- Faculty Member
- Department chair
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Political engagement
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Community-based work-study
- Deliberative dialogues
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Engagement integrated in graduate programs
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
4. Related knowledge
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Institutional change in higher education
- Tenure and promotion
- Partnership development
- Faculty development
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Community / economic development
6. Types of campuses
- Private
- Liberal arts
- Two-year
- Public
- Land-grant
- Religiously affiliated
- Four-year
- Urban
7. Academic areas
- Humanities
- Law and public policy
- Social sciences
- Interdisciplinary programs
- General education
The Swearer Award has provided me with such an incredible venue for advocacy. At Penn, I've had the chance to speak to faculty, students, and alumni who are interested more than ever in supporting the civic mission of higher education.
-Mei Elansary, University of Pennsylvania, recipient of Campus Compact's Swearer Student Humanitarian Award