Faculty & Staff Directory

Steering Committee Member, Educators for Community Engagement: A national organization of faculty members from all disciplines who are working to connect their teaching and scholarship with community needs. , 1994 - present
Member and Chair of the Advisory Committee, Bertram and Corella Bonner Foundation (Princeton, NJ): To help guide and monitor the Foundation’s FIPSE funded Civic Engagement Certificate Program. , 2003 - 2005
Member of the leadership team for a community-based learning and action iniative, the Jane Addams School for Democracy: Neighborhood residents, many of whom are recent immigrants, work with college students and professors on projects that they have designed and chosen together. , 1996 - present
Member of the coordinating group for Hopework Folk School: A project that brings together for reflection, story-telling and discussion people of all ages who are working to build stronger communities and who want to learn from each other. , 1999 - present
Member of the editorial board, Michigan Journal of Service-Learning: 1997 - present

My research explores how philosophy can contribute to grass-roots social change in the direction of a decent and self-understanding society.:

Publications

Positive, Comparative, Superlative: Wallace, John, Journal of Philosophy, 69 , 1972.

Awards

The University of Minnesota 2000 Josie R. Johnson Human Rights and Social Justice Award
The Campus Compact 2000 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning
The Minnesota Campus Compact 2000 Sister Pat Kowalski Leadership Award

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