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493 Contributors Angela Allen, PhD, Senior Associate, Public Engagement Programs, Public Agenda Angela Allen provides community technical assistance for Public Agenda’s department of Public Engagement programs, including the Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE). Her focus includes capacity-building and cross-sector collaboration strategic planning , pre-community engagement research, and stakeholder engagement work. Angela was an ABD Research Associate at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation in Dayton, Ohio. Angela has a PhD in higher education administration with a specialization in applied developmental science from Michigan State University, a MSW in community organization administration from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and a Bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning from Michigan State University. Dr. Allen’s dissertation, “Faculty and Community Collaboration in Sustained Community-Campus Engagement Partnerships,” was a case study analysis of nine community-campus partnerships and the collaboration factors that impacted partnership sustainability and the alignment of the academic and civic contexts through partnership knowledge dissemination. In her doctoral program, Dr. Allen spent three years as a graduate assistant with MSU University Outreach and Engagement, co-creating the Emerging Engagement ScholarsWorkshop of the National Outreach Scholarship , the National Center for the Scholarship of Engagement at MSU, and the Higher Education Network for Community Engagement in 2007. After more than fourteen years of professional experience in community-based program administration in her hometown of Detroit as well as a year as Research Associate at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Dr. Allen is establishing an independent consulting practice. Theodore R. Alter is professor of agricultural, environmental, and regional economics in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Penn State University. He 494 C O N T R I B U T O R S served as associate vice-president for outreach, director of Penn State Cooperative Extension, and associate dean in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State from July 1997 through July 2004. His research focuses on the scholarship on engagement in higher education, agricultural economics and agribusiness management, community and rural development, development and public sector economics, and comparative rural development policy. Burton A. Bargerstock is co-director of the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement (NCSUE) and director of Communication and Information Technology for University Outreach and Engagement (UOE). He directs information system development , publications, public/media relations, and event management; and serves on university-wide advisory committees. Since 1994, Bargerstock has participated in a number of institutional research efforts, including the development of the Outreach & Engagement Measurement Instrument (OEMI), which collects data on faculty outreach efforts and activities . Under the aegis of the NCSUE, he leads the OEMI project, heading its implementation at MSU and partnering institutions. Bargerstock also helped shape an ongoing qualitative research project that studies the impact of outreach on scholarship and scholarly lives. Recently, he was involved in the creation and development of MSU Usability/Accessibility Research & Consulting, a University laboratory and technical assistance provider that conducts research on and provides services for the evaluation of human/technology interfaces (e.g., software, websites). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (2010–11), is an associate editor for the Transformations in Higher Education: Scholarship of Engagement book series, is a member of the implementation committee of the National Outreach Scholarship Conference, serves as president of the MSU Chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, and is an MSU institutional member of EDUCAUSE. Mary Beckman is Associate Director of Academic Affairs and Research at the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Social Concerns, where, among her activities, she created and runs a community-based research program that includes grants to teams of faculty, community collaborators, and students. She is also Concurrent Associate Professor of Economics and Policy Studies and co-directs a Poverty Studies Minor. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Notre Dame in 1986 and was a tenured faculty member at Lafayette College from 1985 to 2001. Her publications can be found in books and journals including Academic Exchange Quarterly, Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Radical Teacher, Review of Radical Political Economics, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Robert G. Bringle (Ph.D., Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts) is Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). He has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs and is widely known...

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