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Consultant: Julie Reed

Name: Julie Reed
Title: Director
Department: Office of Service-Learning and Community Action
Organization: University of San Francisco
Phone: (415) 422-2156
Fax: (415) 422-5641
Email: jlreed [a] usfca.edu
Address: Leo T. McCarthy Center, UC 300
2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117

Brief Biography:
Dr. Julie Reed is the Director of the Office of Service-Learning at the University of San Francisco (California, USA). She earned her PhD in Higher Education with a minor in Philanthropic Studies from Indiana University, and conducted dissertation research on reflective practice and care theory in novice faculty teaching. She has also worked at Gettysburg College, Georgetown University, California State University Monterey Bay, and IUPUI. Her primary areas of interest/experience include faculty development, community partnership, global service-learning, student leader development, institutionalization of service-learning, and reflective practice. Dr. Reed consults with a range of universities and community organizations on these topics.

Areas of Expertise

1. Current or Past Roles

  • Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center

2. Types of Consulting

  • Technical assistance
  • Interactive presentations

3. Types of civic and community engagement

  • Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
  • Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
  • Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
  • Service-learning or community-based learning courses
  • Alternative spring breaks
  • International engagement

4. Related knowledge

  • Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
  • Student development
  • Faculty development
  • Coordination of engagement programs/centers
  • Reflection
  • Partnership development
  • Facilitation techniques

5. Public issues addressed through engagement

  • Tutoring
  • Consulting Corps Health
  • Consulting Corps Mentoring
  • K-12 education
  • Housing / homelessness
  • Mental health
  • Consulting Corps College access and success
  • Literacy
  • Hunger

6. Types of campuses

  • Research university
  • Four-year
  • Small town or suburban
  • Private
  • Liberal arts
  • Religiously affiliated
  • Public
  • Urban

7. Academic areas

  • Consulting Corps Education
  • Social sciences

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