OCES Advisory Board

Co-Chairs

Provost
Michael Halleran

Vice President for Student Affairs
Ginger Ambler

Members

Joel Schwartz
Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies and Director of the Charles Center

Anne Charity Hudley
Associate Professor of Education, English, and Linguistics
William and Mary Professor of Community Studies
Co-Director, William & Mary Scholars Undergraduate Research Experience

Kelly Whalan
Assistant Professor of Special Education

Samanthe Tiver
Class of 2011

Drew Stelljes
Director of Community Engagement

Monica Griffin
Director of Engaged Scholarship and the Sharpe Community Scholars Program

 Committee Charge for the Advisory Committee on Community Engagement and Scholarship

• To meet quarterly for the purposes of communication and shared awareness of the activities, goals, and progress of the Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship (OCES);

• To encourage the participation of Sharpe and Community Studies faculty, engaged student leaders, and faculty or administrators from the Schools, in achieving the mission of OCES;

• To represent and communicate the educational value and practical needs of community engagement and scholarship programs that serve W&M students to campus and external audiences;

• To review significant OCES policy or mission changes developed for community engagement and scholarship programs;

• To support and guide the development of fundraising priorities that will build capacity for the Office of Community Engagement and Scholarship;

• To ensure that processes are in place for the Office’s evaluation in terms of institutional effectiveness required by SACS and make appropriate recommendations based on the results of such evaluation;

• To provide institutional leadership and support for the collection of data on college-wide community engagement, in terms of curricular and outreach partnerships (for example, for the Carnegie Classification in Community Engagement);

• To review and evaluate regularly the unique structure of OCES (as a merged Academic-Student Affairs operation; with separate reporting lines for the co-directorship and contexts for merit evaluation; with both separate and shared budgets moving forward; etc.).