EDUCATION: |
Doctor of Philosophy: Educational Administration - Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education , Michigan State University, 04/2007
Master of Social Work: Community Organization - Children, Youth, and Families in Society, The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, 04/2001
Bachelor of Science: Urban and Regional Planning, Michigan State University, 06/1995
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My research interests center on the scholarship of research university-community engagement. I want to understand how the contribution of research university resources and academic expertise improve a community's ability and resources to improve their areas of social concern. To achieve this goal, I want to develop and implement both qualitative and quantitative assessment of the process and products of research university-community partnerships. I want to determine the quality of reciprocal impacts between community residents and administrators, with faculty, academic staff, graduate students. Lastly, I am interested in understanding the post-collegiate community engagement experiences of underrepresented students. I believe that service of the places we live and thrive improves quality of life, and I want to advance that goal through my work.
AFFILIATIONS:
- Sisters of the Academy Institute, Member and Research Boot Camp Participant
- American Educational Research Association, Member
- Association for the Study of Higher Education, Member
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation Evaluator Database Member
- American Evaluation Association, Member
- 1995 Michigan Political Leadership Program Fellow, Michigan State University Institute for Public Policy and Social Research
- Michigan Evaluation Association, Member
- Michigan College Personnel Association, Member
PERSONAL PROSE:
My web page is http://www.geocities.com/univcommscholar.
As of this writing in March 2006, I am completing my third-year as a PhD student in the Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Program of the Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University College of Education. Joyfully, I am at the dissertation proposal stage. My journey has evolved to fulfill the vision inspired in me by my hometown of Detroit and by Dr. June Manning Thomas, my undergraduate mentor at MSU who is also an internationally-renown professor of Urban and Regional Planning. Working with her and several other faculty during the 1997 City of Detroit Community Reinvestment Strategy synthesized my passions and talents into a career, and I am close to living my dreams.
My professional goals involve becoming a tenure-track faculty member (preferably in a warmer clime of the United States), and eventually a Vice President or Provost for University Engagement at an engaged public research university. I want to consult both domestically and internationally; collaborating with philanthropic foundations and community-based institutions to evaluate how research university-community partnerships develop community capacity for sustainable social change. I want to contribute scholarship that advances policy legislated from the community perspective, and improves community quality.
I have recently co-authored a book review of Kelly Ward’s ASHE-ERIC monograph (2003) on Faculty Service Roles and the Scholarship of Engagement, which is published in the March-April 2006 issue of the Journal of College Student Development.
To relax, I watch "24" every Monday night via telephone with my family in Detroit, including my five-year-old nephew Reggie. My favorite relaxing activities are watching HGTV/The Food Network/Fine Living, watching stand-up comedy or sporting events, attending wine tastings, music concerts, theatrical performances, and participating actively in adventure sports.
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