Engaged Scholarship Examples
The following are a variety of Examples of WSU faculty Engaged Scholarship. These examples and more were used in the application to receive the Carnegie Engaged Campus Classification which WSU was awarded in Dec. 2008. For more information regarding these examples you may contact the individual or the Center for Civic Engagement.
- Dr. Bob Scarfo, Landscape Architecture, organized and hosted a regional forum, Building Improved Community-University Partnerships, focused on measuring the impact of service learning on community development.
- Dr. Ella Inglebret, Speech and Hearing Sciences, has published and presented frequently from an integrated teaching, research, and engagement focus. For example she presented in April 2007 to the Native American Research and Outreach Expo at WSU on Culturally responsive intervention for American Indian children: A service learning project.
- Dr. Nicholas Lovrich, Political Science, Michael Gaffney, Division of Governmental Studies & Services, Dr. Clay Mosher, Sociology, WSU Vancouver, Dr. Travis Pratt, Criminal Justice & Dr. Mitchell Pickerill, Political Science, collaborated on an extensive research project, Racial Profiling in Washington State, in partnership with the Washington State Patrol. As a result of this work, the group was nominated for a Law Enforcement Research Award.
- Dr. John Reganold & Dr. David Huggins, Crop and Soil Science, recently published a Scientific American article: No-Till: How Farmers Are Saving the Soil by Parking Their Plows.
- Dr. Rafi Samizay, Architecture, has recently led a collaborative project supported by US AID. The goal of Building Justice in Afghanistan was to support justice reform through revision of existing laws, development of new laws, building public awareness of the legal system, and reconstruction of justice facilities.
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Dr. Christine Oakley, Sociology, works with the Horizons Project partnership, a poverty reduction program facilitated by WSU Extension. Sociology students have been involved in many aspects of the project and Dr. Oakley has presented this work at the WSU Academic Showcase and at the regional Continuums of Service Conference.
- Dr. Nancy Swanger, Hospitality Business Management, published an article, Service Learning Projects for Extra Credit about her experience incorporating service learning into the curriculum of Introduction to Hospitality (HD181). The article was published in Hospitality with a Heart, one of 21 volumes in a disciplinary series published by the American Association of Higher Education and Campus Compact.
- Dr. Kathleen Rodgers, professor of human development, has worked with community health and youth organizations to assist in assessing youth needs, risks, and factors in family, school, peer and community contexts that affect positive development. Recent articles by Dr. Rodgers and colleagues appear in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Marriage and Family Review, and Adolescent and Family Health.