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Consultant: Jim Applegate
| Name: | Jim Applegate |
| Title: | Vice President for Academic Affairs |
| Department: | Academic Affairs |
| Organization: | Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education |
| Phone: | (502) 573-1555 |
| Fax: | (502) 573-1535 |
| Email: | jim.applegate [a] ky.gov |
| Address: | 1024 Capital Center Drive, Suite 320 Frankfort, KY 40601-8204 |
Brief Biography:
I have served as an academic department head, faculty senate chair, president of a national disciplinary association, and for the last 9 years as a state policy leader addressing the institutional, political, and community policies and issues that promote and pose barriers to engaged academic programs and postsecondary institutions. I have authored publications, academic and public presentation, workshops and consultations on the topic. I was a member of the Campus Compact original Consulting Corp supporting this work. I am passionate about the need for students, faculty, and institutions to embrace a public agenda that serves public needs. I have worked with students, faculty, university administration, political leaders, and community/private sector leaders in advancing this cause.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Faculty Member
- Academic administrator
- Department chair
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
- Technical assistance
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Deliberative dialogues
- Engagement integrated in graduate programs
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- P-20 partnerships
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
4. Related knowledge
- Technology in education
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Partnership development
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Institutional change in higher education
- Tenure and promotion
- Facilitation techniques
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Communications/telling our stories effectively
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
- Faculty development
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Consulting Corps College access and success
- Racism
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- Community / economic development
- Parenting / child development
- Conflict resolution
6. Types of campuses
- Four-year
- Land-grant
- Private
- Liberal arts
- Small town or suburban
- Two-year
- Rural
- Public
- Technical
- Research university
- Urban
7. Academic areas
- Social sciences
- General education
- Humanities
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