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Engaging Communities and Campuses
Advisory Committee
Edgar F. Beckham
Edgar F. Beckham, Dean of the College Emeritus of Wesleyan University
in Middletown, Connecticut, joined the Ford Foundation in 1990 as Program
Officer in the Education and Culture Program. He coordinated the Foundation's
Campus Diversity Initiative until 1998. He is now Senior Fellow at the
Association of American Colleges and Universities, where he continues
his work on campus diversity with support from the Ford Foundation. A
Connecticut native, Mr. Beckham moved to the Foundation after 28 years
of service at Wesleyan, including 17 years as Dean of the College. Mr.
Beckham was Chairman of the Connecticut State Board of Education from
December 1992 to March 1995. He also chairs the Board of the Donna Wood
Foundation.
Nadinne Cruz
Nadinne Cruz is the Associate Director of Stanford's Haas Center for Public
Service, where she provides leadership for the center's programming, which
includes over 35 student-led programs, faculty development, and has resulted
in over 60 service-learning courses to date. She is the Director of Public
Service Scholars Program, which challenges seniors to shape their honors
theses into forms of public service with a nonprofit or government group.
Nadinne is a lecturer in Urban Studies for which she teaches service-learning
courses, among them, Community Organizations and Honors Public Service
Research.
Edward Zlotkowski
Edward Zlotkowski is Professor of English at Bentley College, a Senior
Associate with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), and
a Senior Faculty Fellow for Campus Compact. In 1990, he founded the Bentley
Service-Learning Project, an institution-wide program that has involved
in its work all of the college's undergraduate academic departments. Mr.
Zlotkowski has facilitated the development of the AAHE-Campus Compact
Consulting Corps, a cadre of fifteen senior teacher-scholars who serve
as regional and disciplinary consultants to institutions exploring service-learning.
He serves as the general editor of AAHE's monograph series that explores
the relationship between service-learning and individual academic disciplines.
Mr. Zlotkowski writes and speaks extensively on a wide-range of service-learning
related topics, and is the editor of the book Successful Service-Learning
Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education (1998), which was
published by Ankers Press.
Maureen Grant
Maureen Grant is currently the special assistant to the President at Marymount
Manhattan College in New York. She is the coordinator of the college's
strategic planning process and of the integration of technology across
the campus. For eight years she was the Vice President for Academic Affairs
and Dean of Faculty and Director of Strategic Planning at Bloomfield College,
in New Jersey.
Robert Korstad
Robert Korstad is an Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy
Studies and History, Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University
and Director of the Hart Leadership Program. Dr. Korstad is also a research
associate and co-director of, "Behind the Veil": Documenting
African-American Life in the Jim Crow South" at the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke.
Mark Langseth
Since August 1994, Mark Langseth has served as Executive Director of Minnesota
Campus Compact, a coalition of 44 college and university presidents that
encourages student and institutional involvement in community and public
service and seeks to strengthen the impact of that service on the education
of students and the welfare of communities in Minnesota. Previously Mark
served as Chief Operating Officer of the National Youth Leadership Council,
a national leader in K-12 service-learning. During his seven years at
NYLC, Mark also served as the Founding Director of the Minnesota Campus
Service Initiative, the nation's first state-wide effort to promote and
support postsecondary service-learning.
John Ott
John Ott is the founder of Partners in Innovation, a consulting firm that
helps communities and organizations forge cultures of sustained innovation,
build structures for effective collaboration, and craft and implement
long-range strategic plans. Through Partners in Innovation, John has consulted
with dozens of state and county collaboratives to help them improve results
for children, families, and communities throughout California. He has
also founded and served as the director of Good Work, Inc., in North Carolina
that helps people with low and moderate incomes become entrepreneurs.
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