Barbara A. Holland
Barbara A. Holland is an internationally recognized scholar on organizational change in higher education with a focus on community engagement strategies. She has held senior leadership roles at academic institutions in the U.S. and Australia and was director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of University Partnerships (2000-02) and the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse (2000-07). She was a founding member on numerous boards of academic associations, initiatives and journals, including the National Advisory Panel for the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement on which she still serves. She is an active consultant and has advised diverse universities across six nations. Current affiliations include senior scholar at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the University of North Carolina Greensboro, and distinguished professor at University of Nebraska, home to the Barbara A. Holland Collection for Service Learning and Community Engagement.
Judith A. Ramaley
Judith A. Ramaley is president emerita and distinguished professor of public service at Portland State University in the Mark O. Hatfield School of Government and President Emerita of Winona State University. Professor Ramaley holds an appointment as a senior scholar with the Association of American Colleges and Universities. She has served as president of Winona State University in Minnesota from July 2005 to May 2012. She served as a visiting senior scientist at the National Academy of Sciences in the spring of 2005. From 2001-2004, she was Assistant Director, Education and Human Resources Directorate at The National Science Foundation (NSF). While serving at NSF, Professor Ramaley also held a presidential professorship in biomedical sciences at the University of Maine and was a Fellow of the Margaret Chase Smith Center for Public Policy. She was president of The University of Vermont (UVM) and professor of biology from 1997 to 2001.
Lorilee R. Sandmann
Lorilee R. Sandmann, Ph.D., is professor emerita in Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy, the College of Education at The University of Georgia. For more than 45 years, she held administrative, faculty, extension and outreach positions at University of Minnesota, Michigan State University, Cleveland State University, as well as The University of Georgia. She is also the former editor of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Professor Sandmann’s research, teaching, writing, advising, and consulting focuses on leadership and organizational change in higher education with special emphasis on the institutionalization of community engagement, as well as faculty roles and rewards related to community-engaged scholarship. She is recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award by the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement and the UGA’s Outstanding Faculty Scholarship of Engagement Award. She has been inducted into the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship and the International Adult Continuing Education Hall of Fame.
David J. Weerts
David J. Weerts is associate professor of higher education and faculty director for academic planning and programs in the Office for Public Engagement at the University of Minnesota. Over the past twenty years, his scholarship and teaching has focused on intersections among university-community engagement, state financing of higher education, and institutional advancement. His research on these topics has appeared in leading higher education journals including The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Review of Higher Education, and the Higher Education Handbook of Theory and Research. He has received awards for this work from the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. Professor Weerts has held major gift officer positions at the University of Wisconsin Foundation and University of Minnesota Foundation and served two terms on the executive committee for the Association for Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Council for Engagement and Outreach. He currently serves on the board of directors for Minnesota Campus Compact.