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Scott S. Cowen |
Scott S. Cowen is Tulane University¹s 14th President. He also holds joint appointments as the Seymour S Goodman Memorial Professor of Business in Tulane's A.B. Freeman School of Business and Professor of Economics in the School of Liberal Arts. Since his arrival in 1998, Tulane University has more than doubled its undergraduate applications while experiencing all-time highs in student enrollment and quality. In addition, the university has more than doubled the level of total private giving to the university and received a record level of research awards.
In August of 2005, Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans, flooded seventy percent of Tulane¹s uptown campus and all of its downtown Health Sciences Center and dispersed its faculty, staff, and students around the country for an entire semester. Under President Cowen¹s leadership the campus was repaired and a remarkable 87 percent of its students returned for classes in January of 2006. On December 8, 2005 the Board of Tulane approved President Cowen¹s Renewal Plan, a sweeping effort that strengthens and focuses the university¹s academic mission while strategically addressing its current and future operations in the post-Katrina era. He has consulted with dozens of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. Currently, he is a board member of Newell Rubbermaid, Inc., American Greetings, JoAnn Stores, and Forest City Enterprises. Dr. Cowen and his wife, Marjorie, are the parents of four adult children |
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| James D. Wright is an author, educator, and the Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. Wright also serves as the Director of the UCF Institute for Social and Behavioral Sciences and as editor-in-chief of the journal Social Science Research. He received his BA from Purdue University in 1969 and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1973. He has published eighteen books and more than 300 journal articles, book chapters, essays, reviews, and polemics on topics ranging from American politics to poverty to homelessness to guns to NASCAR. While at Tulane (1988-2001) he served as Director and Principal Investigator for the Tulane-Xavier Campus Affiliates Program. At UCF, he serves on the Service Learning Executive Committee and Steering Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida and of the Orlando Area Trust for the Homeless |
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| Lori Vogelgesang is currently responsible for research and assessment in the Office of Residential Life at UCLA. She has also served as the Director of the Center for Service-Learning Research & Dissemination at the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute (in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies), where she directed a national longitudinal study of service-learning and civic engagement. She also coordinated evaluation efforts for the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships. In these roles she has spent time asking questions such as how do we educate engaged citizens, and what role should higher education institutions be playing in their local communities? Other work experience includes evaluating both domestic and international educational programs as a consultant, serving as a Peace Corps volunteer, and various roles in Student Affairs. |
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| Sherril Gelmon is Professor of Public Health in the College of Urban and Public Affairs at Portland State University. A major focus of her scholarly work is studying institutional strategies and policies with respect to community engagement. She is Chair of the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement. |
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Steve Garlick is Professor of Regional Engagement at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is an advisor to the IMHE/ OECD on higher education and regional developmentand has led higher education evaluations in Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands and Canada. He has undertaken international projects on higher education and regional and community engagement for the OECD and the European Commission.
His research interest is in regional development theory and policy, higher education management, institutional performance assessment, university engagement with regions and communities, and applied ethics. In recent years he has particularly written about the role of human capital, ethics, and the human/ nature divide in community and regional engagement. |
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| Tim Stanton is Visiting Senior Fellow at the John Gardner Center for Youth and their Communities in the School of Education at Stanford University, where he is establishing a research program focused on university-assisted community development initiatives in the US and South Africa. Prior to joining the Gardner Center he founded and directed the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service at Stanford’s School of Medicine, which involves medical students in community health-focused service-learning and community partnership research. He helped found and served as Associate Director and Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford from 1985-1999. In 2006 Stanton designed and served as faculty leader of the first Stanford Overseas Studies academic program in Cape Town, South Africa, which featured service-learning and participatory community health assessment research in three townships. Tim leads a national project on community engagement and research universities as Engaged Scholar for Campus Compact, a national coalition of 1,000 college and university presidents dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education. As Special Consultant for California Campus Compact (CACC) he leads a state-wide project focused on graduate study and civic engagement. He has published numerous articles on service-learning and engaged scholarship, and a book, Service-Learning: A Movement's Pioneers Reflect on its Origins, Practice, and Future. For CACC he and Jon Wagner (UC Davis) authored Educating for Democratic Citizenship: Renewing the Civic Mission of Graduate and Professional Education at Research Universities. |
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| Maria Nieves Tapia is the founder and Academic Director for CLAYSS, Centro Latinoamericano de Aprendizaje y Servicio Solidario or the Latin American Center for Service-learning. CLAYSS is currently leading the Iberoamerican Service-learning Network which includes non-governmental organizations, public administrations and Universities from the United States, Latin America and Spain. As CLAYSS's Research Director, Nieves Tapia conducted the first quantitative research on service-learning developed in Argentina. She also serves as the Director for Educación Solidaria, the Argentina Ministry of Education's federal service-learning program. Nieves Tapia is a member of the Board of the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement, and represents Latin American on the International Association for National Youth Service Steering Committee. As Chief of Advisors of the National Institute of Youth, she directed the research for the Presidential Project on Conscientious Objection and Substitutive Social Youth Service. She also designed and conducted Argentina's first federal K-12 service-learning program. For her work, Nieves Tapia has been honored as an Eisenhower Fellow (1988); National Service Fellow (1993), and the NYLC 2001 Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award recipient. Tapia has also published books and articles on youth service in Spanish, English, and Italian |
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