Speakers and Panelists :: Amy Driscoll

Amy Driscoll is currently a scholar with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, where she is coordinating the development and piloting of a new elective classification for campuses engaged with communities. She was previously director of Community/University Partnerships at Portland State University and director of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment at California State University Monterey Bay. Her recent publications include: “Tracing the Scholarship of Engagement through My Professional Memoirs” in Faculty Rewards Considered: Lessons Learned, New Directions (O'Meara & Rice, 2005); and “Roles and Responsibilities of Academic Administrators: Supporting the Scholarship of Civic Engagement” in Public Work & the Academy (Langseth & Plater, 2004). She also co-authored Making Outreach Visible: A Guide to Documenting Professional Service and Outreach with E. Lynton (1999), and Assessing Service Learning and Civic Engagement: Principles and Techniques (2001) with her colleagues from Portland State University (Gelmon, Holland , Spring, & Kerrigan). Dr. Driscoll has mentored more than 40 campuses across the country in the development of curricular civic engagement and associated scholarship. She is currently co-director of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement.