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Consultant: Paul Roodin
| Name: | Paul Roodin |
| Title: | Director |
| Department: | Experience Based Education |
| Organization: | SUNY College at Oswego |
| Phone: | (315) 312-2151 |
| Fax: | (315) 312-5406 |
| Email: | roodin [a] oswego.edu |
| Address: | 142 Campus Center SUNY Oswego Oswego, NY 13126 |
Brief Biography:
Field of interest: Intergenerational Service-Learning. Coordinator of Regional Dissemination Center for Service Learning in Gerontology (in collaboration with the Corporation for National and Community Service and the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and University of Pittsburgh). Ongoing consultant to University of Pittsburgh's Generations Together Program. Recipient of 7 years of additional grant awards to support work in intergenerational service-learning and elder care. Currently consultant to FIPSE grant linking three generations in service-learning (Foundation for Long Term Care, Albany, NY). Academic Interest: Cognitive development in older adults and children. Author of more than 200 research presentations and scholarly papers and publications. Recipient of 2 awards for teaching excellence, including the SUNY Chancellor's Award. Consulting Editor and guest reviewer for many academic journals. Current position: SUNY Oswego, Director of Experience Based Education; Professor of Psychology. The internship and service-learning programs enrolls nearly 1,000 students in academic credit bearing courses. A total of 300 students enrolled for academic credit in Service-Learning in the most recent academic year. Prior Administrative Positions at SUNY Oswego: Director of General Education, Assistant and Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Faculty Member
- Academic administrator
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Deliberative dialogues
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Engagement integrated in graduate programs
4. Related knowledge
- Reflection
- Faculty development
- Student development
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Partnership development
- Asset-based community development
- Institutional change in higher education
- Tenure and promotion
- Communications/telling our stories effectively
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Housing / homelessness
- Parenting / child development
- Environment
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- Tutoring
- Hunger
- Poverty
- Consulting Corps Health
- Mental health
- Consulting Corps College access and success
- Literacy
- Senior / elder issues
6. Types of campuses
- Research university
- Small town or suburban
- Public
- Tribal
- Liberal arts
- Four-year
- Rural
- Private
- Land-grant
7. Academic areas
- Health professions
- Interdisciplinary programs
- Social sciences
- Natural sciences
- Consulting Corps Business / management
- Arts and design
- General education
- Consulting Corps Education
- Humanities
- Law and public policy
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
