Drew  Stelljes PhD

Director

Office: Blow Hall 326
Phone: 757 221 3263
Email: [[adstel]]

Campus Leadership

Over the last twelve years, Drew Stelljes has worked to infuse a climate of engaged citizenship and scholarship at William and Mary.  He has created an array of programs including alternative breaks and Leadership in Community Engagement and he has played a key role in the creation of programs such as the Sharpe Community Scholars and the Community Studies Minor.  During his tenure William and Mary has received an array of national and international awards including four Points of Light Foundation Awards and annual recognition on the President’s Honor Roll for Community Service with Distinction.  In 2010 Washington Monthly ranked William and Mary #1 for graduates’ contributions to society.  

Stelljes is the author of Service-Learning and Community Engagement: Toward Long-term Developmental Social Concern and his engagement model has been widely published.  He has authored an array of journal articles on placing students intellectual and developmental needs at the center of the learning endeavor, service-learning, community based learning, education policy reform measures, impacts of alternative breaks and measures of the efficacy of college based tutoring and mentoring programs. 

He is a graduate of James Madison University (Bachelor of Science and Master of Education) and the College of William and Mary (Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Policy).  In 2008 Drew was selected as an inaugural member of the Engagement Academy for University Leaders.  He is Associate Editor of the VA Engage Journal and Co-Chair of the newly formed VA Engage Network.  He has held an executive board seat on a variety of local non-profits and on the Governor’s Advisory for National and Community Service where he chaired the annual selection process for statewide Americorps funding.  Drew teaches on K-16 education policy and modern education reform measures in the School of Education.  He teaches a class on leadership in the non-profit sector and he is the faculty member for the Washington Office Summer Institute on Community Engagement.  Drew consults on topics ranging from the creation of civic engagement on college campuses, service-learning and student development in the college years.  He has guest lectured, presented or consulted for 20 schools.  He and his wife, Amy, have three children, Emma Grace, Braden Eberhardt and Elizabeth Marie.  They live in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Community Leadership

Courses Taught

• W&M DC Office Summer Commuity Engagement Institute- Leadership in DC Non-Profits
• W&M DC Office Summer Commuity Engagement Institute- Internship in DC Non-Profits
• Leadership in Community Engagement
• Education, Poverty and Society
• Paths in Civic Engagement
• Education as a Social Concern in America
• An Interdisciplinary Approach to Examining Government Response to Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast
•  From Service to Understanding to Action: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social and Cultural History in the West Indies: A Service Learning Course
• Guest Lecturer: College Student Personnel, Organization and Governance, Student Development Theory and Current Issues in Higher Education graduate courses