Name:	Wanda Kanwischer
Title:	Director, Center for Service-Learning
Department:	Student Life
Organization:	Normandale Community College
Phone:	(952) 487-8123
Fax:	(952) 487-8130
Email:	wanda.kanwischer [a] normandale.edu
Address:	9700 France Ave. S. Bloomington, MN 55431

Brief Biography:
I have nine years of experience building a service-learning program at a large two-year community college — Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN. In this time, we have grown from an ESL tutoring program of six mentors to over 1,000 students participating in course-based service-learning and volunteerism as well as over 100 America Reads/Counts tutors. We have recently added an Americorps M3C Fellows component and have participated in the Americorps VISTA program as well. We have secured grants for the past 8 years to assist in our program, as well as created two full-time campus-funded and one full-time half-grant/half-campus-funded positions. I have a wealth of experience on how to start and how to institutionalize a service-learning office. I also have a great amount of experience with faculty and community partner development. I serve as co-chair of our President's Council on Diversity and have a great passion around this topic, and see many correlations between the Council's work and service-learning/civic engagement.

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