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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