Tim Donovan is the Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences for Experiential Education. Before coming into the Dean’s Office, he had developed numerous writing programs in the Department of English. (Some of these helped incoporate the students’ relevant experiences, such as cooperative education, into advanced writing projects.)
As Associate Dean he focused on a broad expansion of study abroad in the Office of International Study Programs, now grown from just 3 to over 30 sites overseas. He is the first director of the Center for Experiential Education and Academic Advising (CEA), and has brought together many of the College’s efforts to enhance its experiential programs. These include undergraduate research, service learning, leadership development, academic internships as well as cooperative education, study abroad and other initiatives.
Tim is co-founder and long-time
director of the Martha’s Vineyard
Summer Institute, especially emphasizing
graduate workshops on writing, reading,
teaching, and learning for teachers at
all levels. He has also has led numerous
faculty workshops on experiential learning
and writing across the curriculum.
In addition to administration, Tim periodically
teaches Modern Irish Literature and during
the course brings his students to Ireland
for lectures and visits to important literary
sites around Dublin.
Richard Porter is Special Assistant on Experiential Education to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern University. He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Work and Learning and professor of mathematics.
Rick served as Vice President for Cooperative Education from 1998 to 2003. In this role, he oversaw the Departments of Cooperative Education, International Cooperative Education, and Career Services. In 2003, U.S. News & World Report ranked Northeastern University number one in the country for programs that combine classroom learning with real-world experience. In addition, Northeastern’s Department of Career Services was top ranked by Kaplan/Newsweek’s “Unofficial, Insider’s Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges and Universities,” 2003 edition.
Rick has given talks on experiential education at meetings of the National Commission for Cooperative Education, the World Association for Cooperative Education, and the Association of American Colleges and Universities. He serves on the organizing committee for the Third International Conference on Practice-Oriented Education and also the organizing committee for the 14th World Congress of the World Association for Cooperative Education. Both conferences will be held in June of 2005.
Rick received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University. He served as Chair of the Mathematics Department from1993 to 1998. Rick has given invited lectures on his mathematics research throughout the country and Europe. He has been visiting professor at the Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille, France and at the University of Sussex England. Rick received the University Excellence in Teaching Award in June of 1990.
In his role as a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Work and Learning, Rick contributes to research on a variety of program strategies and their outcomes for students in the emerging field of practice-oriented education.
Donna
Qualters is currently Director
of the Center for Effective University
Teaching (CEUT) at Northeastern University,
as well as associate professor of Education.
The CEUT oversees faculty and teaching
assistant development and student assessment
activities for Northeastern. Donna has
also been involved in faculty development,
assessment, teaching/learning and student
support as the Director of Educational
Initiatives and senior lecturer at MIT,
Director of Faculty Development at UMass
Medical School, Dean of Instruction and
Professor at Endicott College and Assistant
Director of Academic Support at Suffolk
University. Donna also serves as accreditor
for the New England Association of Schools
and Colleges (NEASC) specializing in the
area of outcome assessment.
Her research centers on creating educational
change and she has published and presented
in the area of assessment, pedagogy, teacher
identity/change, culture transformation,
reflective practice and interdisciplinary
ethical inquiry. Her book, Jonas Chalk,
is an innovative interdisciplinary approach
to changing teaching culture.
Donna has been honored by the Professional Organization and Development Network in higher education (POD) for innovation in promoting faculty and instructional development on her campus. She is also on the Executive Board of the Massachusetts American Council of Education Women Leaders in Higher Education.
Joe Raelin has been conducting a wide variety of leadership programs for executives and professionals worldwide throughout much of his career. He holds the Asa. S. Knowles Chair of Practice-Oriented Education at Northeastern University and is also Director of the Center for Work and Learning. Formerly, he was Professor of Management at the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management. He received his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His research has centered on executive and professional education and development using action learning. He is a prolific writer having produced some 90 articles appearing in the leading management journals. He is also a management consultant with over 30 years of experience working with a wide variety of organizational clients. His publications include: The Clash of Cultures: Managers Managing Professionals (Harvard Business School Press, 1991), considered now to be a classic in the field of managing professionals; Work-Based Learning: The New Frontier of Management Development (Prentice-Hall, the ‘OD’ Series, 2000); and the recently released Creating Leaderful Organizations: How to Bring Out Leadership in Everyone (Berrett-Koehler, 2003).
David Rochefort is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He has published extensively in the areas of health and social welfare policy. A winner of the university's Excellence-in-Teaching Award, he developed a Community-Based Research Initiative involving students in applied research projects that are carried out in partnership with local community agencies and groups. He also initiated a Student Leadership Seminar for members of student government and other on-campus leaders that focuses on original case studies of leadership issues at Northeastern University. In addition to his teaching in the area of public policy, he offers a seminar for students in the university's honors program entitled "Social Fact From Fiction" that examines the treatment of social issues in contemporary novel-writing. Rochefort is currently a Research Fellow of the Center for Work and Learning at Northeastern. He is studying the impact of different forms of experiential education on students working toward a political science degree.
Kristen Simonelli is the Associate Director & Service-Learning Coordinator for Northeastern's Center of Community Service. Her key responsibilities are to promote and support the University use of Service-Learning within the curriculum, as well as to direct the Stride Rite Community Scholar Programs service-learning cooperative education opportunities. She is also a member of the Center for Experiential Education and Academic Advising advisory committee, the university's Community Building Task Force, and Massachusetts Campus Compacts Community Service & Service-Learning Directors Think Tank. Kristen is a graduate of Providence College with a B.A. in Public and Community Service Studies from the Feinstein Institute. In 2005 she received her Masters in Applied Psychology, with a concentration in Student Development and Counseling from Northeastern's Bouve College of Health Sciences. Kristen first came to the Center as a *VISTA (Volunteer In Service To America) through the Massachusetts Campus Compact (MACC) AmeriCorps program.
