Academy Members
The following inducted members of the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship have demonstrated considerable commitment to the advancement of CES over their fruitful careers. Among them are engagement scholars, artists, and community-engaged leaders demonstrating notable contributions to the theory and practice of working collaboratively to address societal needs, advance community engagement, and advance the scholarship of community engagement. We honor their great achievements by inducting them into this prestigious academy.
Theodore R. Alter
Pennsylvania State University
Engagement and engaged scholarship have been key dimensions of Theodore Alter's research, teaching, and public service for nearly 40 years. Ted…
Burton A. Bargerstock
Michigan State University
Burton Bargerstock is Director of the National Collaborative for the Study of University Engagement, Director of Communication and Information…
Lynn Blanchard
University of North Carolina
Lynn has contributed to the field of community engagement scholarship (CES) since 1992. Early community engagement roles included schoolteacher,…
Robert Gordon Bringle
IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
There is likely no one in the United States who has greater expertise or who has contributed more to our understanding of service-learning and civic…
Robert H. Bruininks
University of Minnesota
Dr. Robert H. Bruininks’s academic career has focused on transformative public and civic leadership, the development of human capital from…
Karen S. Bruns
Ohio State University
Karen Bruns is a grounded servant leader of community engagement scholarship and is a major leader strengthening the movement. She consistently and…
Katy Campbell
University of Alberta
Served as the Dean of the Faculty of Extension at the University of Alberta since 2009. Before that she was Interim Dean (2007-2009), Associate Dean…
Nancy E. Cantor
Rutgers University-Neward
Dr. Cantor’s groundbreaking contributions on social intelligence include how people interpret their social worlds, set personal goals and…
Jeri Childers
University of Technology Sydney
Jeri Childers created The Engagement Academy for University Leaders that was offered by Virginia Tech's Center for Organizational and…
Ellis B. Cowling
North Carolina State University
A forest biologist at North Carolina State University, Ellis became a world leader in environmental research. He was elected to membership in the…
David Cox
University of Memphis
Executive Assistant to the President, Professor. Dr. Cox holds the rank of Professor in the Division of Public Administration and serves as Executive…
Nancy Creamer
North Carolina State University
In 2003, the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) found itself in the middle of a brewing crisis between conventional agriculture and the…
Julie Ellison
University of Michigan
Julie Ellison has immeasurable impact on higher education, particuarly on the cultural disciplines, such as the humanities and the expressive…
Eugenia Eng
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eugenia Eng's community-based participatory research (CBPR) work is recognized nationally and internationally. Contributions include relevance…
Hiram E. Fitzgerald
Michigan State University
Hiram Fitzgerald's work represents engaged scholarship not only in his disciplinary area but through unceasing promotion of engaged scholarship…
Nancy Franklin
Pennsylvania State University
Nancy Franklin has made contributions to engagement scholarship through articles, book chapters, and meeting presentations. In a landmark paper,…
Timothy V. Franklin
New Jersey Institute of Technology
As an administrative leader at land-grant and public institutions of higher education, Timothy Franklin's work has been characterized by the…
Nancy K. Franz
Iowa State University
Associate Dean for Extension and Outreach for Families and 4-H Youth in the College of Human Sciences, Director of Extension and Outreach to…
Andrew Furco
University of Minnesota
Professor Furco's research focuses on the study of experimental learning, service learning, and community engagement. Having completed more than…
Sherril Gelmon
Portland State University
ln the words of her former president Judith Ramaley, "Sherril Gelmon has contributed to the advancement of engaged scholarship and learning ever…
Dwight E. Giles, Jr.
University of Massachusetts
Future service-learning historians will likely note that Dwight Giles stands out as a seminal change agent responsible for shifting service-learning…
Philip A. Greasley
University of Kentucky
Greasley, a UK administrator and English faculty member for 30 years, was formerly dean of University Extension, overseeing academic outreach…
Susan Gust
Community Development Consultant
Susan Gust, a community activist and small business owner, co-founded, along with a University of Minnesota physician, a ten-year community and…
Budd Hall
University of Victoria
Budd Hall, Professor of Community Development, first coined the term "participatory research" while working in Tanzania in the early…
Ira Harkavy
University of Pennsylvania
Harkavy has helped to develop academically based community service courses and participatory action research projects that involve creating…
Lyla E. Houglum
Oregon State University
Dr. Houglum served as Dean and Director of the Oregon State University Extension Service for almost 10 years, providing leadership for about 600…
Stanley E. Hyland
University of Memphis
Stanley Hyland is an exemplar of the concept of engaged scholarship. It is reflected in his 35 years of community partnership practice, the resulting…
Audrey J. Jaeger
North Carolina State University
Dr. Audrey J. Jaeger is a Professor of Higher Education and Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor. She directs the National Initiative for…
Cathy Jordan
University of Minnesota
As a community-engaged scholar, Cathy Jordan has contributed to our understanding of the social determinants of health on children’s…
Mary Simon Leuci
University of Missouri Extension
The values that guide Mary Leuci’s work are embedded in the “Principles of Good Practice,” adopted by the Community Development…
Teresa Mangum
University of Iowa
Teresa Mangum is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa. She serves on the…
Michael V. Martin
Florida Gulf Coast University
Michael V. Martin serves as President of Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). The Florida Gulf Coast University Board of Trustees unanimously…
Barbara Moely
Tulane University
Dr. Moely has consistently broken new ground in the study and development of service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) programming and is a…
Suzanne Morse Moomaw
University of Virginia
As a University of Alabama doctoral student, Moomaw was part of the General Motors-UA initiative to save a local plant. This experience launched a…
Diana Natalicio
University of Texas at El Paso
Diana Natalicio has led the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to become a shining example of a university engaged in its community. Under her…
Philip Nyden
Loyola University
When Nyden founded the Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL) he could not have known how deeply his aspirations would be fulfilled. He…
KerryAnn O'Meara
University of Maryland
KerryAnn O'Meara is at the forefront of the movement to regard and embed community-engaged scholarship in academic reward systems, faculty…
Joan T. Pennell
North Carolina State University
Joan Pennell integrated learning and discovery with social work practices through a family- and community-centered team approach working with youth…
Juvencio Rocha Peralta, Jr.
AMEXCAN
Juvencio Rocha Peralta is instrumental in connecting immigrant and Latino communities to services and resources as Executive Director of AMEXCAN and…
Scott J. Peters
Cornell University
Situated in the newly emerging interdisciplinary field of “civic studies,” Peters centers his work as a scholar and educator on the…
Samory Touré Pruitt
University of Alabama
As vice president of Community Affairs, Dr. Pruitt is the designated officer at the University of Alabama for the encouragement and production of…
Judith Ramaley
Portland State University
Ramaley has a global reputation for her contributions to the knowledge base that institutional leaders and community leaders can draw upon to create…
Scott Reed
Oregon State University
Scott Reed provides direct leadership for the Oregon State Open Campus program—the multifaceted and multi-discipline community engagement…
Roger Rennekamp
Ohio State University
Roger Rennekamp became the 12th director of Ohio State University Extension on January 4, 2016. Roger comes to Ohio State from Oregon State…
John Saltmarsh
University of Massachusetts, Boston
John Saltmarsh has been a critical and influential architect, intellectual leader, historian, researcher, activist, and mentor within the modern…
Lorilee R. Sandmann
University of Georgia
Dr. Lorilee R. Sandmann’s research, publications, teaching, and leadership has had an intense and ongoing influence on the development of some…
Mary Evans Sias
Kentucky State University
In February 2004, Mary Evans Sias was named President of Kentucky State University after serving eight years as Senior Vice President for Student…
Theodore J. Settle
Virginia Tech University (Retired)
Ted’s scholarly contributions include his ability to name previously unrecognized issues that congeal interest in community engagement…
Lou Anna Simon
Michigan State University
President Simon’s significant contributions to the field of CES are twofold: institutionalization of community engagement and scholarship…
Patricia M. Sobrero
North Carolina State University
Dr. Sobrero’s career has served as a model for the principles of the Academy. Effective engaged scholarship is characterized by the link…
Beth Velde
East Carolina University
Beth Velde's scholarship in engagement has taken the form of books, chapters, journal articles, and presentations, including insights from…
Craig D. Weidemann
Pennsylvania Sate University
Craig Weidemann served as Penn State University's Vice President for Outreach, 2003-2016. In this position he oversaw the University's…
Nancy Zimpher
State University of New York
Nancy Zimpher has led three public universities and has made university engagement with the community a central theme at each. At the University of…
Jim Zuiches
North Carolina State University
Dr. Zuiches has worked primarily for and on behalf of non-profit organizations and am committed to support efforts to establish sustainable…