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Consultant: Nancy Rogers
| Name: | Nancy Rogers |
| Title: | Director |
| Department: | Center for Public Service and Community Engagement |
| Organization: | Indiana State University |
| Phone: | (812) 237-2334 |
| Fax: | (812) 237-2525 |
| Email: | nancyrogers [a] indstate.edu |
| Address: | Tirey Hall 134A Tirey Hall, 134 B Terre Haute, IN 47809 |
Brief Biography:
Nancy Rogers is Director of the Center for Public Service and Community Engagement and Professor of Recreation and Sport Management at Indiana State University. At ISU, she has worked with the Office of General Education to create the Liberal Learning in Action program, the Department of Political Science to develop the Civic Leadership Minor, and University Honors Program to create a civic leadership tract for honors students. She coordinated the University's application to the Carnegie Foundation for the Elective Community Engagement Classification and is currently chairing a University-wide strategic planning committee for community engagement. She is the founding editor of the Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Faculty Member
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
2. Types of Consulting
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Technical assistance
- Interactive presentations
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Community organizing
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- Alternative spring breaks
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
4. Related knowledge
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Communications/telling our stories effectively
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Voting / advocacy
- Consulting Corps Health
- Poverty
- Community / economic development
- Literacy
- Womens issues
- Housing / homelessness
- Senior / elder issues
- Environment
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- Civil rights / human rights
- Hunger
6. Types of campuses
- Small town or suburban
- Four-year
- Research university
- Public
7. Academic areas
- Health professions
- Social sciences
- Interdisciplinary programs
- General education
Campus Compact's workshops have been extremely valuable. Faculty often become energized by the workshop content and bring that enthusiasm back to campus.
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