Campus Compact has appointed two Senior Faculty Fellows who serve as leading consultants in the field and as advisors to the National office of Campus Compact and to State affiliates. Over the course of its history, Campus Compact has had two Senior Faculty Fellows, Edward Zlotkowski, who has served in that capacity since 1998, and Robert Franco, appointed in 2003. Senior Faculty Fellows are appointed based upon their deep knowledge and experience regarding service-learning and civic engagement, their capacity as expert consultants in the field, and their leadership in strategically advancing the mission of Campus Compact.
Edward Zlotkowski
Ed Zlotkowski teaches English at Bentley College, in Waltham, MA, where he founded the Bentley College Service-Learning Project in 1990. He directs the Compact’s initiative on service-learning in the disciplines. He is the author of Successful Service-Learning Programs (Anker, 1998) and is the series editor for the American Association for Higher Education 18 volume Series on Service-Learning in the Disciplines. He is also a Senior Associate at the American Association for Higher Education.
Work
- Attended 36 conferences as keynote speaker, workshop director, or other featured roles.
- Visited 23 schools providing training to faculty and students.
- Participated in 26 Campus Compact sponsored Workshops or Institutes.
Robert W. Franco
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For 30 years, Dr. Robert Franco has been an ecological and demographic anthropologist focusing on contemporary Hawaiian, Samoan, and Pacific Islander educational, employment, health, environmental, and cultural issues. He has published scholarly and policy research on Samoan political and cultural change, the meaning and management of water in ancient Hawaii, and sociocultural factors affecting Pacific tuna fisheries. In 2009, he consulted with a leading Samoan chief and the American Samoa Humanities Council on the editing and publication of the territory’s first written history, a required 9th grade textbook.
He currently serves as the Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Kapiolani Community College, University of Hawaii. The college bears the name of Queen Julia Kapiolani, the penultimate female monarch of the sovereign nation of Hawaii. He takes primary responsibility for campus strategic and long-term planning, grants writing and development, institutional research, assessment and evaluation, and accreditation.
He provides national leadership on diversity and democracy issues for the Association of American Colleges and Universities, American Council on Education, and the Carnegie Foundation. As Senior Faculty Fellow for Community Colleges at Campus Compact, he conducts training, technical assistance and research dissemination in five states per year (38 states and 3 U.S. territories in total). He has presented service-learning workshops at the University of Bologna, Italy, and in Madrid, Spain, and is engaged with Asian scholars in the International Forum for Education in 2020 of the East-West Center.
He provides community college, university, and conference audiences with research-based training designed to improve retention, degree completion, and transfer rates through service-learning, community-based research, and authentic partnerships. His current research and training focuses on service-learning and reducing the minority academic achievement gap, thereby strengthening the liberal arts, workforce development and civic missions of community colleges. He currently serves as a Co-Principal Investigator on three major National Science Foundation grants and as a Faculty Fellow for NSF’s Science and Civic Engagement initiative.
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Bob Franco (at right) with Palolo Valley Tenants Association leaders, and other statewide community service awardees, at the annual Ola Pono “Drug-Free Hawaii” awards luncheon. Lt. Governor “Duke” Aiona is in the center of the photo.
