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Consultant: Rahima Wade
| Name: | Rahima Wade |
| Title: | Service-Learning and Civic Engagement Consultant |
| Organization: | Consultant |
| Phone: | (319) 400-3088 |
| Email: | rahimawade [a] gmail.com |
| Address: | 15 Abbott Street Greenfield, MA |
Brief Biography:
Rahima Wade, Ed.D. was a professor in the University of Iowa's College of Education for 16 years where she spearheaded service-learning efforts on the UI campus, across the state, and nationally. Rahima has coordinated several CNCS grants and published four books and more than 50 articles and book chapters on service-learning and civic education. An Ehrlich award finalist in 2006 and the John Glenn Scholar for Service-Learning in Teacher Education in 2004, Rahima works as a service-learning and civic engagement consultant with K-12 schools, college and university campuses, and state departments of education across the country. For more information on her services and expertise, go to http://www.rahimawade.com.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Faculty Member
- K-12 school teacher or administrator
2. Types of Consulting
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
- Technical assistance
- Interactive presentations
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- P-20 partnerships
4. Related knowledge
- Facilitation techniques
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Faculty development
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Reflection
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Civil rights / human rights
- K-12 education
- Tutoring
- Hunger
- Racism
- Environment
- Literacy
- Voting / advocacy
- International / global citizenship issues
- Senior / elder issues
- Housing / homelessness
- Poverty
6. Types of campuses
- Research university
- Four-year
- Private
- Liberal arts
- Two-year
- Public
7. Academic areas
- Social sciences
- Interdisciplinary programs
- General education
- Humanities
- Consulting Corps Education
Campus Compact's workshops have been extremely valuable. Faculty often become energized by the workshop content and bring that enthusiasm back to campus.
-California State University-Stanislaus