Contributors
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Darnell Cole is an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California with an emphasis on higher education and educational psychology. He earned his Ph.D. in higher education from Indiana University– Bloomington. His research interests include race and ethnicity, diversity, and college student development.
Peter Levine is the Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Jonathan Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University, and director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. He is the author of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America (2013). He has worked with AmericaSpeaks, Street Law, the Newspaper Association of America Foundation, the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, the Kettering Foundation, the American Bar Association’s Committee for Public Education, the Paul J. Aicher Foundation, and the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.
Dan A. Lewis teaches at Northwestern University in Evanston. Lewis has written or edited seven books, including Gaining Ground in Illinois: Welfare Reform and Person-Centered Policy Analysis (2010). At the Institute for Policy Research, he has directed major projects on community reactions to crime, the deinstitutionalization of state mental health patients, and Chicago school decentralization. More recently, he conducted evaluations of homelessness in the Chicago suburbs and a longitudinal analysis of welfare reform in Illinois. Lewis also directs the Center for Civic Engagement, which encourages students to enhance their academic experiences through course work and research to strengthen communities.
Sondra Myers is the senior fellow for International, Civic, and Cultural Projects at the University of Scranton and director of its Schemel Forum, a noncredit, humanities-based continuing education program. Myers is the editor [End Page v] of Democracy Is a Discussion, which has been translated into twenty languages and is used throughout the world. A former cultural adviser to the governor of Pennsylvania and special assistant to the chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Myers is a past chair of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the National Federation of State Humanities Councils. She is also on the Commission for Presidential Scholars.
Timothy K. Stanton is the director of Stanford University’s Bing Overseas Studies Program in Cape Town. He helped found and direct the Scholarly Concentration in Community Health and Public Service at Stanford’s School of Medicine and the Haas Center for Public Service. He has taught education, medicine, public policy, and African, American, and urban studies. As Engaged Scholar for Campus Compact, Stanton helped organize and coordinate trucen, an initiative on community engagement and research universities. He has published numerous articles on service-learning and engaged scholarship, as well as Service-Learning: A Movement’s Pioneers Reflect on Its Origins, Practice, and Future.
Jennifer Turner Waldo is an assistant professor of biology, associate dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts, and chair of the General Education Board at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has received support from the National Science Foundation for her laboratory research exploring the mechanisms of cell division and for her investigations into the scholarship of teaching and learning in the sciences.
Ji Zhou is a Ph.D. candidate in urban education policy with a focus on higher education at the University of Southern California. She conducts research on how college impacts students from diverse cultural and racial/ethnic backgrounds. Her other research area focuses on policy and organizational change in Chinese higher education. She uses both qualitative and quantitative methods. [End Page vi]
