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Consultant: Mary Ange Cooksey
| Name: | Mary Ange Cooksey |
| Title: | Senior Lecturer in Humanities |
| Department: | Philosophy, Religious Studies, and English |
| Organization: | Indiana University East |
| Phone: | (765) 973-8438 |
| Fax: | (765) 973-8485 |
| Email: | mcooksey [a] indiana.edu |
| Address: | 2325 Chester Blvd. Richmond, IN 47374 |
Brief Biography:
I am Senior Lecturer in Humanities, which means that I teach Philosophy, Religious Studies and English at Indiana University East. I have been a member of the I U East faculty for the past four years, and during this time, I have done extensive work in service-learning and civic engagement, both on my campus and across the state. For the past three years I have been a Faculty Fellow for Indiana Campus Compact, and for two of these years, I served as the Senior Fellow. During the past year, I have been involved in a number of research projects, one of which has focused exclusively on Criterion Five. Prior to coming to Indiana University East, I was the Student Service Coordinator and a faculty member in the Ball State University Honors College from 1983-2003. I direct the Baxter Neighborhood Help Center in Richmond, Indiana, a full service help facility created and maintained by service-learners from a variety of disciplines.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Faculty Member
- Academic administrator
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
- Technical assistance
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Political engagement
- Social entrepreneurship
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Deliberative dialogues
- Community-based work-study
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Community organizing
4. Related knowledge
- Student development
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Faculty development
- Risk management
- Reflection
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
- Technology in education
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Fundraising
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Asset-based community development
- Facilitation techniques
- Partnership development
- Tenure and promotion
- Communications/telling our stories effectively
- Institutional change in higher education
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Consulting Corps College access and success
- Hunger
- Voting / advocacy
- Consulting Corps Health
- Poverty
- Community / economic development
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- Civil rights / human rights
- Housing / homelessness
- Tutoring
- Conflict resolution
- Parenting / child development
6. Types of campuses
- Research university
- Public
- Land-grant
- Four-year
7. Academic areas
- Humanities
- Interdisciplinary programs
- General education
- Technical fields
Thanks for your continued outstanding leadership at Campus Compact. Your publications and programs are always top-notch. I sincerely appreciate all you have done for us in the trenches.
-William F. Moeller, Director, Center for Civic Education and Service, Florida State University
