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Consultant: Kathy O’Byrne
| Name: | Kathy O'Byrne |
| Title: | Director |
| Department: | Center for Community Learning |
| Organization: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Phone: | (310) 825-7867 |
| Fax: | (310) 267-2482 |
| Email: | kobyrne [a] college.ucla.edu |
| Address: | A265 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 |
Brief Biography:
Over the years, I have consistently worked with three groups of stakeholders: faculty, students, and community partners. I have provided training and technical assistance in a wide variety of areas, including (but not limited to) assessment/evaluation, curriculum, research and scholarship, and best practices for collaboration. My experience includes consultation as well as conference-style presentations. I've also had quite a bit of experience with integrating a variety of credit-bearing opportunities with scholarship programs, to create a richer experience for students and community partners. I am the chair of the faculty advisory committee for the Civic Engagement Minor at UCLA, for which I also wrote and developed the proposal for its implementation. I am pleased to participate in this program, and hope that I can contribute to the further development of service learning and civic engagement courses or programs.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Department chair
- Academic administrator
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Community partner
- Faculty Member
2. Types of Consulting
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Technical assistance
- Interactive presentations
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- National service programs
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
4. Related knowledge
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Reflection
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Partnership development
- Faculty development
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Institutional change in higher education
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Consulting Corps Health
- Mental health
- Literacy
- Immigration / migration
- Senior / elder issues
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- K-12 education
- Tutoring
6. Types of campuses
- Public
- Urban
- Four-year
- Research university
7. Academic areas
- Consulting Corps 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