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Spring 2009
I am excited to serve as Sac State’s first-ever Community Engagement Faculty Scholar! Sac State has signified its commitment to student learning and faculty scholarship in the area of community engagement with this new position. Having long been both personally and professionally committed to community engagement in low income communities, my work as Community Engagement Faculty Scholar allows me to connect with other faculty and organizations who are involved in community engagement activities. We have several goals for this year, including (a) creating a university-wide assessment plan for assessing student learning in community engagement courses, (b) increasing the visibility of and participation in research and scholarship on community engagement activities, (c) working with faculty and community partners to initiate and facilitate community based participatory research, and (d) writing and facilitating applications for grants to fund innovative community engagement work. I look forward to working with faculty, administration, students, and schools and communities to enhance our growing community engagement connections.
Jana Noel, Community Engagement Faculty Scholar and a Professor of Educational Foundations at Sacramento State, is the recipient of the 2007-2008 College of Education Outstanding Community Service Award. Noel is the co-creator and co-coordinator of the Urban Teacher Education Center, which received the 2008 California Quality Education Partnership Award for Distinguished Service to Children and the Preparation of Teachers. She served as a “community liaison” to Jedediah Smith School and the public housing complexes it serves, and as teacher research coordinator for the Equity Network, a network of 12 low income and culturally and linguistically diverse schools in the Sacramento region. Noel received her Ph.D. from UCLA in 1991. She has published two books, numerous articles, and presented at national and international conferences in the areas of urban education, multicultural teacher education, history of California’s segregated education, and community engagement in low income communities. She has also been the recipient of grants from the Spencer Foundation and the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
last updated: 7/6/2009