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Consultant: Rick Battistoni
| Name: | Rick Battistoni |
| Title: | Professor |
| Department: | Political Science and Public and Community Service Studies |
| Organization: | Providence College |
| Phone: | (401) 865-2787 |
| Fax: | (401) 865-1222 |
| Email: | rickbatt [a] providence.edu |
| Address: | Howley Hall 316 Providence, RI 02918 |
Brief Biography:
I have particular expertise in definitions and visions connecting civic engagement/civic education/political engagement with community-based learning, as well as unit/program/departmental engagement and curriculum development.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Academic administrator
- Faculty Member
- Department chair
- 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
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Alternative spring breaks
- National service programs
- Community organizing
- Political engagement
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- P-20 partnerships
- Community-based work-study
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
4. Related knowledge
- Faculty development
- Coordination of engagement programs/centers
- Reflection
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Partnership development
- Facilitation techniques
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Immigration / migration
- Senior / elder issues
- Environment
- Poverty
- Voting / advocacy
- Civil rights / human rights
- International / global citizenship issues
- Sexual assault / domestic violence
- Housing / homelessness
- Racism
- Womens issues
- Consulting Corps College access and success
- K-12 education
- Tutoring
6. Types of campuses
- Four-year
- Private
- Urban
- Religiously affiliated
- Public
- Liberal arts
7. Academic areas
- Interdisciplinary programs
- Law and public policy
- Consulting Corps Education
- Social sciences
Thanks to Campus Compact for all that you have done over the years to nurture the campus service and service-learning movement. When we started at St. A's 15 years ago there was a feeling among some campuses that we were seeing higher education's latest 'flash in the pan.' Instead it was the beginning of a revolution of ideas and relationships, and you guys have been fueling us all the way.
-Daniel Forbes, Director, Meelia Center for Community Service, Saint Anselm College