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Consultant: Rosalyn Jacobs Jones
| Name: | Rosalyn Jacobs Jones |
| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Department: | English |
| Organization: | Georgia Perimeter College |
| Phone: | (678) 406-9425 |
| Email: | jonesrosalyn [a] bellsouth.net |
| Address: | Clarkston Dunwoody Atlanta, GA 30341 |
Brief Biography:
Dr. Rosalyn Jacobs Jones served as Campus Compact's Engaged Scholar for the Indicators of Engagement Project and has given numerous workshops on the Five Thematic Groupings of the Indicators of Engagement for colleges and universities interested in improving their civic engagement. She co-authored One with the Community: Indicators of Engagement at Minority-Serving Universities, wherein she profiles successful community engagement at HBCU's. Dr. Jones is an Associate Professor of English and has been instrumental in incorporating service-learning in the liberal studies program as well as major level courses. She is an experienced grant writer and has directed numerous service-learning grants. Her expertise includes innovative course design and meaningful community service activities that have been designed and implemented to help to close the achievement gap and increase retention.
Areas of Expertise
1. Current or Past Roles
- Faculty Member
- Department chair
- K-12 school teacher or administrator
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Academic administrator
2. Types of Consulting
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
- Speeches
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- Research about civic and community engagement
- Consulting Corps Campus-community partnerships
- Service-learning or community-based learning courses
- Developmental models of engagement integrated in departmental or general education curricula
- Co-curricular service or engagement programs
- P-20 partnerships
- Community-based participatory research / engaged scholarship
- Engagement integrated in first-year programs
- Institutional engagement (mobilizing institutional resources to support a civic mission)
- Engagement integrated in retention efforts
4. Related knowledge
- Faculty development
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Student development
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Reflection
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- K-12 education
- Tutoring
- Community / economic development
- Parenting / child development
- Literacy
- Womens issues
- Housing / homelessness
- Senior / elder issues
- Civil rights / human rights
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
6. Types of campuses
- Two-year
- Historically black
- Public
- Liberal arts
- Religiously affiliated
- Rural
- Four-year
- Land-grant
- Private
- Research university
- Urban
7. Academic areas
- General education
- Humanities
- Consulting Corps Education
- Social sciences
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