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437 Contributors Angela D. 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 and Co-Director of the Center for Economic and Community Development in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology at Penn State University. He served as associate 438 C O N T R I B U T O R S 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. Ann E. Austin is a Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education at Michigan State University, where she is also the director of the Global Institute for Higher Education (GIHE). Her scholarly interests focus on faculty roles and professional development, work and workplaces in academe, organizational change and transformation in universities and colleges, reform in doctoral education, the improvement of teaching and learning in higher education , and higher education issues in developing countries. She was the 2001–2002 president of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE) and a Fulbright Fellow in South Africa (1998). She is currently co-principal investigator of the Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching, and Learning (CIRTL), a National Science Foundation Center. She has authored or co-authored numerous articles, chapters, and books. Her most recent books are Rethinking FacultyWork: Higher Education’s Strategic Imperative (2007, with J. M. Gappa and A. G. Trice) and Educating Integrated Professionals: Theory and Practice on Preparation for the Professoriate (2008, with C. Colbeck and K. O’Meara). John P . Beck is an associate professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University. He serves as associate director of the school in charge of two of the school’s outreach units, the Labor Education Program and the Program on Innovative Employee Relations Systems (PIERS). He has worked primarily in change management, joint labor/management cooperation, and workplace transformation. Annie Belcourt-Dittloff, Ph.D., is an American Indian research and clinical faculty member at the University of Colorado at Denver’s Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health (enrolled tribal member: Blackfeet, Chippewa, Mandan, & Hidatsa). She is a clinical psychologist, and her research priorities include trauma, post-traumatic stress reactions, risk, resiliency, and psychiatric disorder within the cultural context of American Indian populations. She has provided clinical services to a diverse clientele in a variety of settings, recently completing an internship with the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Denver, Colorado, working with veterans and addressing post-trauma reactions. Dr. Belcourt-Dittloff has conducted multiple, grant-funded, collaborative research projects with American Indian communities. These projects have provided experience in both quantitative and qualitative analysis and were aimed at the investigation of factors, including post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, cultural resiliency, spirituality , adversarial or post-traumatic growth, and psychosocial factors involved in depression and suicidal ideation. She has presented...

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