Name:	KerryAnn O’Meara
Title:	Associate Professor, Higher Education
Department:	EDHI
Organization:	College of Education, University of Maryland College Park
Phone:	(443) 864-4426
Email:	komeara [a] umd.edu
Address:	7130 Willowbrook Way Columbia, MD

Brief Biography:

KerryAnn O’Meara is an Associate Professor of Higher Education at the University of Maryland College Park. She is interested in and has studied all aspects of the faculty career as it relates to service learning and the scholarship of engagement. Specifically she has written and consulted on trying to reform academic reward systems to be more hospitable to this work, supporting faculty at different career stages, graduate education and engagement, faculty development and writing from the work. KerryAnn was the founding coordinator of a Masters Track in Service-Learning and Community Engagement at UMass Amherst, and is working collaboratively with the Kettering Foundation on research on faculty civic agency and its origins. Before joining the faculty she worked with faculty and Student Affairs units coordinating service learning at Otterbein College, the Maryland Governors Commission on Service, and the College Park Scholars Program at the University of Maryland. KerryAnn has consulted nationally and internationally on faculty community engagement—its support, rewards, and dissemination, working with faculty senates, faculty fellows programs, Provosts offices, Centers for Service Learning and Teaching and faculty unions.

In addition to the below, also has expertise in the following:

• Integrating Engagement into Academic Reward Systems
• Supporting Faculty in Different Career Stages
• Publishing from Service Learning

Areas of Expertise