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Dawn Anderson is the Associate Director of the Office of International Study Programs and the Center for Experiential Education at Northeastern University. Prior to coming to NU, she did her undergraduate studies at Rust College in Holly Spring, MS and her graduate studies in Oxford, MS at the University of Mississippi. It was her two study abroad experiences that set her on her current path. In 1994 she studied at the University of Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain and in 2000 she studied in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala where she completed a research project on the Garinagu (black Guatemalans). These education abroad experiences, along with her background coming from a small, homogeneous community outside of Chicago, IL known as Robbins, IL, sealed her committment to bringing what many study abroad students describe as an intense, life-altering learning experience into the classroom.

As the Associate Director of International Programs, Dawn has successfully worked not only to increase the number of NU students studying abroad but has played an active role in internationalizing the campus. As Chair of the NAFSA Sub-Committee on Under-representation in Education Abroad, Dawn is committed to increasing the study abroad participation of US college students by identifying and removing the institutional, financial and cultural obstacles that exists for all students but particularly for underrepresented students (students of color; with disabilities; in certain majors; from Community Colleges, HBCUs, HSIs and Tribal Colleges; males, campus leaders and athletes, etc.)

Currently, Dawn is a Faculty Research Fellow at the Center for Work and Learning. She is studying the effects certain practices and principles have on underrepresented students who choose to break from the ranks and study abroad.

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.

Kate McLaughlin has recently returned to the Northeastern faculty as the Coordinator for the Music and Theatre Co-op Program. For the past three years, Kate served Northeastern’s College of Arts and Sciences as the Associate Director of Experiential Education and Undergraduate Research. There she administered and developed the Faculty Undergraduate Research Initiative to encompass a learning community of faculty and student research fellows, a system to track and recognize undergraduate research opportunities and participation, and guidance to interested undergraduates. She also participated in a university-wide campaign to increase awareness of, support for, and participation in undergraduate research.

Prior to joining Northeastern, she worked as a music business professional, spending six years as a talent agent specializing in jazz and world music at International Music Network. Some past clients include Solas, Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Baaba Maal, Paco de Lucia, and Ibrahim Ferrer.
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Kate completed her BA at the University of California at Berkeley in Social Science major with a Music minor. She subsequently completed her MA in Sociology at New York University and her MBA at Babson College.

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 served 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 were held in June of 2005. Rick will be part of a panel discussion at the 2006 Cooperative Education and Internship Association (CEIA) Annual Conference and Cooperative Education Centennial Celebration in April of 2006

Rick received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Yale University. He served as Chair of the Mathematics Department from 1993 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.

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 a former Research Fellow of the Center for Work and Learning at Northeastern and is studying the impact of different forms of experiential education on students working toward a political science degree.

Kristen Simonelli is the Associate Director and 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 Massachusetts Campus Compacts Community Service and Service-Learning Directors Think Tank, and chair of Northeastern's university wide Service-Learning Advisory Board.

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.