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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
- Director or staff of service-learning/civic engagement center
- Academic administrator
- Faculty Member
- Department chair
- K-12 school teacher or administrator
2. Types of Consulting
- Speeches
- Interactive presentations
- Discussion / dialogue facilitation
3. Types of civic and community engagement
- 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
- 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
4. Related knowledge
- Intercultural knowledge / diversity
- Bridging academic affairs and student affairs
- Reflection
- Scholarship of teaching and learning
- Faculty development
- Assessment and evaluation methods
- Student development
5. Public issues addressed through engagement
- Housing / homelessness
- Senior / elder issues
- Civil rights / human rights
- Consulting Corps Mentoring
- K-12 education
- Tutoring
- Community / economic development
- Parenting / child development
- Literacy
- Womens issues
6. Types of campuses
- Four-year
- Land-grant
- Private
- Research university
- Urban
- Two-year
- Historically black
- Public
- Liberal arts
- Religiously affiliated
- Rural
7. Academic areas
- Social sciences
- General education
- Humanities
- Consulting Corps Education
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