2008 Speakers

Nadinne Cruz
Nadinne Cruz will speak on the importance of infusing civic engagement into applied learning experiences. She has been a practitioner, leader, advocate, speaker, and author on the need for pedagogies of engagement in higher education ror over 25 years. Her early volunteer experiences with peasants in the Philippines and her Filipina-American immigrant consciousness of domestic and international issues inspire her work. She is former Director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford. As executive director of the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, Nadinne led 18 colleges and universities to develop community-based learning programs. She was the 2005 recipient of the National Youth Leadership Council's Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award to honor exemplary leaders in service-learning. Now an Independent Consultant, Nadinne works with colleges and universities, and national and state Campus Compacts on issues related to service-learning, civic education, and institutionalization.

Mitch Malachowski
Mitch Malachowski will speak on the relationship between research and student learning. A faculty member at University of San Diego since 1984, Mitch maintains an active research program in chemistry, with funding from the National Science Foundation, the Petroleum Research Fund and the Research Corporation. He has published over 50 scientific papers, many with undergraduate co-authors. Additionally, Mitch has published articles on a variety of topics related to undergraduate research. Mitch was president of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) from 2002-2003, and is now a principal investigator on CUR's $500,000 NSF grant to offer workshops to institutions looking to initiate or enhance undergraduate research programs. Mitch has received numerous awards including the 1999 Davies Award for Teaching Excellence at USD.

Janet Stocks
Janet Stocks will offer a workshop on developing undergraduate research across the curriculum. She is Director of the Center for Academic and Professional Success and Director of the Center for Transformational Learning at Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea, Ohio. A sociologist by training, Janet’s academic interests include education, the family, gender, religion, and qualitative methods. She serves as the Chair of the Board of Governors of the National Conferences on Undergraduate Research and Chair of the Undergraduate Research Program Directors’ Division of CUR. She has co-edited Reinvigorating the Undergraduate Experience: Successful Models Supported by NSF's AIRE/RAIRE Program, published by CUR.

Carlos Teissier
Carlos Teissier will offer a workshop on internationalization of campuses. Carlos currently serves as the International Affairs Director for the Universidad Regiomontana. He has negotiated several international agreements with institutions from the five continents, bringing international activity at Universidad Regiomontana from 0 to 42 active international agreements -- from student and faculty exchanges to cooperative research activities -- positioning Universidad Regiomontana as one of the 10 most active Mexican universities in the international arena. Carlos created a program that helps design, implement and measure the internationalization of the University for every single department involved. In 2004, Carlos was an invited Presenter at NAFSA’s Association of International Educators conference in Baltimore. He is currently finishing his first book, Integral Model for the Internationalization of the University.

Edward Zlotkowski
Edward Zlotkowski will speak on assessment of applied learning and service-learning. He is a professor of English at Bentley College. In 1990, he founded the Bentley Service-Learning Center, an institution-wide program that involves all of the college’s undergraduate academic departments, more than a quarter of its full-time faculty, and several thousand students. He has lectured and written on a variety of service-learning topics. Under the auspices of the Invisible College and Campus Compact, he serves as general editor of a new monograph series exploring the relationship between service-learning and individual academic disciplines. He has recently been named a senior associate of the American Association of Higher Education. Zlotkowski received a 2006-07 U. S. Fulbright Scholar grant that supported his travel to Ireland, where he spent January through June 2007 at the Dublin Institute of Technology supporting the new Community Learning Programme.