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Consultant Bios



Lynne Bond

Lynne Bond is Professor of Psychology at the University of Vermont and was founding Director of UVM's Office of Community-University Partnerships and Service-Learning. In this role, she focused on developing a campus infrastructure to support service-learning through faculty/staff and curriculum development, community-based research, and research and evaluation of service-learning impact. She was named a finalist for the 2003 Campus Compact Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning. Lynne has focused her undergraduate and graduate level courses around service- learning projects, with an emphasis on problem-based-community action service learning in human and community development, quality of life and social change. Areas of particular experience include

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Rowly Brucken

Rowly Brucken is an historian and activist on the development of international human rights law and American foreign policy. He has developed specialized courses in nation-building, the 1960s, and historical research methods that have partnered students with community organizations. Students have collected oral histories, sponsored university forums, undertaken human rights activism, and volunteered with local nongovernmental groups to explore themes and topics outlined in class. In a joint venture with Norwich's Office of Volunteer Programs, he will travel with students to Vietnam next spring as part of a year-long commitment to landmine victim assistance and education. He has also served as a faculty service-learning consultant at Norwich. His service-learning interests include:

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Lorrayne Carroll

Lorrayne Carroll is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine. She teaches service-learning course and researches and writes on service-learning and civic engagement. From 2003 to 2006, she served was one of the five National Civic Scholars for the National Campus Compact. Lorrayne seeks to connect the academic work of students and faculty with community partners' goals to increase venues for civic dialogue and action.

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Joe Catanese

Joe Cataneseserves as Director of the Academic Resource Center. As Director, he oversees the Peer Tutor Program, the Writing Center, and the College Success Program, a first-year experience program. In addition, as a lecturer in the college's nationally recognized Humanities Program, he has developed the Service Learning component of the program. During his thirty years of collegiate teaching, he has focused on teaching and learning methodologies, incorporating Service Learning in the curriculum, and enhancing reflection opportunities in the classroom. He is interested in drawing upon his experience as a learning skills specialist, a seminar facilitator and service learning instructor to assist others in the following areas:


Dan Forbes

Dan Forbes is Director of the Meelia Center for Community Service and teaches Social Work courses at Saint Anselm College. Dan has been involved in service learning since 1987 and has helped to introduce service learning into 10 academic departments and over 20 courses at the college. He has facilitated numerous workshops to introduce service learning to faculty and to help campuses to develop the infrastructure to support service learning. He is particularly experienced in the use of student leaders to support service and service learning, with nearly 40 students working in leadership roles at the Meelia Center. Special topics Dan can consult on include:

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David Guerra

David Guerra is an Associate Professor of the Physics at Saint Anselm College. He has thirteen years of college teaching experience and his research over the last decade has focused on the development and application of instrumentation for atmospheric studies. In addition to teaching and research, David has consulted for several different companies performing tasks ranging from technical writing to the design and prototyping of novel laser systems. It is through these experiences that he has developed a model for integrating service learning in physics. David is interested in working with other small science departments, which may not be traditionally involved in service learning, that are interested in integrating this experiential learning into their curriculum. His experience may be of assistance to those interested in:

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Kate Hanson

Kate Hanson is an Associate Professor of Social Science at the University of New Hampshire's Thompson School of Applied Science. During her twenty-five years of college teaching, she has taught courses in women's studies, sociology, interpersonal communication, management and supervision, group process and leadership development. Currently she is the Chairperson of UNH's new, unique associate degree program in Community Service and Leadership. Developing and managing this program provides her with the opportunity to work collaboratively with other faculty, students and community partners to create innovative courses that incorporate community-based learning experiences in a variety of ways. She is interested in combining her decades of experience as an organizational consultant and her years as a community activist with her interest in service-learning to offer assistance to others in the following areas:

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Jonathan Isham

Jonathan Isham, a scholar of social capital and civic engagement at Middlebury College, has integrated problem-based service learning into a wide range of environmental studies and economics courses. In his fall and spring courses, his students have partnered with environmental groups, businesses, and social agencies on projects such as wilderness preservation, renewable energy development, and elderly services. In his four-week winter term courses, students have partnered with local community groups and national environmental organizations to study social capital development in Vermont, develop a greenhouse-gas reduction strategy for Middlebury College, and build the new climate-change social movement. Jon has a keen interest in sharing his service-learning experiences, including the following specific topics:

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Elizabeth A. Jabar

Elizabeth A. Jabar is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Printmaking Department at Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine. In her studio art courses she has collaborated with many students and artists over the last five years working with middle schools, high schools, and non-profit and public agencies creating community art projects. Her service learning projects utilize the citizen artist model, using the arts to engage the public in dialog about local history, site, process and community building. Elizabeth also co-chairs the Creative Community Partnerships Committee at Maine College of Art, where she works closely with the program director and other faculty to educate and expand service learning at the college. Elizabeth can be of service in the following areas:

Mark Kavanaugh

Mark Kavanaugh in an Instructor at Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield, Maine. He has been teaching at KVCC for six years and teaches Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Sociology, Developmental Psychology, Behavior Management, Social Problems. Psychosocial Rehabilitation, and Multiculturalism in American Society. Service-Learning is a required element in his Psychology and Sociology classes and is under development in all other classes. He is the Chair of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, the current Faculty Senate President, and the Director of the KVCC Center for Civic Engagement (www.kvcc.me.edu/cce). Mark had been involved with the creation of various Service-Learning courses and focuses his efforts on creating infrastructure to support service in the curriculum. He would like to offer assistance to others in the following areas:

Chris Koliba

Chris Koliba is the Co-Director of the Master of Public Administration Degree Program and an Assistant Professor in the Community Development and Applied Economics Department at the University of Vermont (UVM). He served as co-chair of the UVM President's Committee on Civic Engagement, which gave birth to the Community-University Partnership and Service-Learning Office. Prior to arriving at UVM, he spent almost five years at Georgetown University as the Associate Director of the Volunteer and Public Service Center. He has integrated service-learning into courses covering public policy, community involvement & civil society, and democratic education. His research interests include organizational change, civic education, cross sector collaborations, applied uses of research data, and educational policy. He has published six articles in peer reviewed journal pertaining to his research and teaching related to service-learning and civic engagement. Chris is happy to share what he has learned about civic engagement and service-learning to colleagues at other institutions on topics including:

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Ed Laine

Ed Laine is an Associate Professor of Geology, former Chair of Geology and directed Bowdoin College's Environmental Studies program for 11 years. While Ed has involved students at Bowdoin College with the local community through community based learning projects for almost 18 years, it has been the training he received through Maine Campus Compact (MCC) in both problem-based service-learning (PBSL) and civic engagement that has helped him become a passionate and effective advocate for joining the campus with the community. As a faculty consultant for the Northern New England Faculty Consulting Program specializing in PBSL and departmental civic engagement, he has worked with faculties on campuses throughout Maine and New Hampshire. Ed, with Barbara Rich of the University of Southern Maine, co-directs the MCC Problem Based Service-Learning Institute. Particular areas of expertise Ed can offer include:

Dan Malachuk

Dan Malachuk is an Associate Professor of Humanities at Daniel Webster College in Nashua, NH, and the author of Perfection, the State, and Victorian Liberalism (Palgrave 2005). He includes service learning in many of his courses in writing, philosophy, and literature, and he has also been active in institutionalizing service learning at his college. Dan was a co-facilitator of the spring 2004 Engaging Democracy Through the Humanities Institute and has a special interest in the politics, language, and philosophy of service learning. Dan can provide expertise in the following areas:

Georgia Nigro

Georgia Nigro is a Professor of Psychology at Bates College in Lewiston, ME, and has over a decade of experience with service learning. Georgia has used different forms of service learning in both lower and upper level courses. One particular area of interest is in community based research as a form of service learning. Georgia and her students have partnered with a large variety of agencies that serve children and youth.

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Debra Nitschke-Shaw

Debra Nitschke-Shaw is the Director of Teacher Education at New England College. She has taught in the Teacher Education Program for 20 years and was a kindergarten and special education teacher before that. She has done extensive work regarding partnership development and the integration of service-learning into teacher education. In addition, she is responsible for the graduate program and developing professional development school partnerships with school surrounding New England College. Debra has developed and provided a number of Institutes on partnership development and service-learning and has created a graduate course on service-learning for pre-service and in-service teachers. Debra has a keen interest in consulting on:

Jacob Park

Jacob Park is assistant professor of business and public policy at Green Mountain College in Vermont specializing in the teaching and research of global environment & business strategy, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and community-based entrepreneurship & innovation with a special expertise/interest in Japan, China, and the Asia-Pacific region. Jacob has been able to integrate problem-based service learning in partnership with local businesses, government agencies, and non-profit organization into a diverse array of business, environmental studies, and community development courses. He is very interested in contributing his service learning knowledge and experiences in the following subject areas:

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David Potter

David Potter is Professor of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences at Unity College in Unity, ME. Dave has been an active participant in Unity's service-learning program from its inception, uses service-learning in many of his courses, and is one of the driving forces behind Unity's long partnership with the Lake Winnecook Association. He can offer expertise in using service-learning in fisheries and freshwater ecology courses, and in water quality monitoring. Other special interest areas include:

Tom Redden

Tom Redden is a Professor of History and Politics at Southern Vermont College in Bennington, VT, and has been using service-learning in his courses for over 10 years. He has been working to develop SVC's program and is interested in consulting on program start up and a broad range of service-learning issues.

Barbara Rich

Barbara Rich is an Associate Professional of Social Work at the University of Southern Maine and is coordinator of the BSW program. Barbara has nearly 30 years in teaching higher education social work courses, and has infused service-learning into many of her courses. She has presented nationally on her service-learning work, and with Ed Laine, is the co-facilitator of Maine Campus Compact's Problem-Based Service-Learning Institute. Barbara has a keen interest in consulting about:

M. Therese Seibert

M. Therese Seibert is an Associate Professor of the Sociology Department at Keene State College in New Hampshire. Over the last fifteen years, she has conducted research and taught courses on ethnic relations employing community-based and problem-based service-learning in a number of courses. Other teaching areas include research methods, social statistics, gender, and holocaust and genocide. As founder of the Community Research Center, Therese has collaborated with many students over the last six years to work with local non-profit and public agencies on needs assessment, program evaluation, and surveys. In addition, Therese has been a leader of the service-learning initiative at KSC, which has involved organizing service-learning summits along with other service-learning events and activities. Therese can be of service in the following areas:

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Susan (Sue) Sutheimer

Susan (Sue) Sutheimer is Associate Professor of Chemistry at Green Mountain College with a special interest in service-learning in environmental sciences and chemistry. As the service-learning start-up coordinator for two small colleges, she has experienced service-learning in urban and rural settings, with a broad range of faculty and community partner interests and capacities, and with limited funds for programs. Currently Director of Service-Learning and chair of the Service-learning Advisory Committee at Green Mountain, her consulting interests include:

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Carol Traynor

Carol Traynor is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. Carol introduced service-learning into the Computer Science Department and currently uses service-learning in two courses: Computer Applications and Human Computer Interaction. Carol is the faculty director of the Digital Divide project - an intergenerational project that connects college students, senior citizens and elementary school students. She has a keen interest in consulting in service-learning in the field of computer science and in intergenerational settings.

Kelly Young

Kelly Young is Associate Director of the Prevention and Community Development Program at Woodbury College in Montpelier, VT, which specializes in career-focused learning for adults. Kelly has experience designing and teaching PBSL courses, workshops and internships, expertise in developing community partnerships (long & short term) and connecting community partnerships to the curriculum. Kelly is interested in consulting on Problem-Based Service-Learning and working with community partners in addition to:

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