Going Public: Civic and Community Engagement

Contributors

323 Contributors Jessica V. Barnes, PhD, is the Associate Director for University-Community Partnerships of University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University. She is a developmental psychologist, and her work focuses on establishing successful community-university partnerships for research and engaged scholarship as well as identifying supports for establishing community capacity for engaging in research collaborations to support child development. Mary Beckman is Associate Director of Academic Affairs and Research at the Center for Social Concerns, the University of Notre Dame’s center for community-based learning and research. She is also concurrent Associate Professor of Economics and Policy Studies at Notre Dame and co-directs an interdisciplinary program on poverty studies. Prior to her current position, she was a member of the faculty at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania , after a number of years as an activist. At Lafayette, in addition to her teaching responsibilities in economics, she co-developed a writing-across-the-curriculum program and directed a writing-intensive interdisciplinary first-year seminar program. Her publications can be found in College Teaching, Journal of Excellence in College Teaching, Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Radical Teacher, Review of Radical Political Economics, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and elsewhere. Ann Belleau (Ojibwe) is the Director of the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan (ITC Michigan) Head Start and Early Head Start programs. She is responsible for the overall administration of early childhood programming for seven tribal communities. She was coPrincipal Investigator of the Wiba Anung research partnership. She serves as the Online Student Advisor for the Bay Mills Community College Early Childhood Education students. She was a member of the American Indian Alaska Native Head Start Research Center Steering C O N T R I B U T O R S 324 Committee and was President of the National Indian Head Start Directors Association Board of Directors. Derryl Block is Dean of the College of Health and Human Sciences at Northern Illinois University. With a background in nursing and public health, she focuses on improving the quality of professional education and increasing access to it through the use of distance education. Block was President of the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators and a member of the Quad Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations. She helped develop policy documents regarding essential content for baccalaureate nursing and entrylevel community/public health nursing. Her scholarship and publications focus on public health, public health nursing, and public health nursing competencies. Actively involved in promoting civic engagement of communities and students, she was a Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow, and a recipient of both the Association of Community Health Nursing Educators Outstanding Service Award and the American Public Health Association Public Health Nursing Section’s Lillian Wald Service Award. Mary Calcatera (Sault Saint Marie Ojibwe), a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians and a graduate of Michigan State University, is an academic specialist in the Native American Institute, College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University. She is active in American Indian initiatives on MSU’s campus and throughout the Michigan tribal community. She was the Interim Director of the Nokomis Learning Center (Okemos, MI) and assisted in the development of Michigan State University’s Aanii Program and the Michigan Indian Leadership Program and Youth Retreat. Additional projects have included the development of an American Indian curriculum for the Nokomis Learning Center, the Wiba Anung American Indian Head Start project, and initiatives related to American Indians in higher education and nutrition within Michigan tribal communities. Karen McKnight Casey is the Director of the Center for Service-Learning and Civic Engagement at Michigan State University. As director, she is responsible for facilitating university initiatives, which provide service-based, experiential learning and civic engagement opportunities for MSU students. Ms. Casey works closely with faculty, university administration and student services, students, and community partners to ensure that active service opportunities are provided for students to meet academic, personal, and professional development goals while meeting the expressed needs of the community. An alumna of the MSU School of Social Work, Ms. Casey’s association with the service-learning began as an undergraduate student volunteer in the early years of the center, when it was known as the Office of Volunteer Programs. Prior to becoming an MSU academic specialist in 1991, Ms. Casey’s professional experience included work in higher education residence life and teaching, and community agency programming. Her dedication to service and community enhancement is exhibited in work...