Presentation Title

Aligning Engaged Learning and General Education

Presenter Information

Byron White, Cleveland State University

Author Biography

Byron P. White, Cleveland State University

Dr. Byron P. White has spent his career as a journalist and administrator in academic, corporate, non-profit and public sectors facilitating mutually beneficial engagement between institutions and urban communities. He currently is Vice President for University Engagement and Chief Diversity Officer at Cleveland State University, where he is responsible for developing and overseeing strategies that advance civic engagement, workplace engagement, and inclusion and multicultural engagement.

Before joining CSU in February 2012, White was Vice Chancellor for Economic Advancement for the Ohio Board of Regents where his responsibilities included overseeing a staff responsible for statewide efforts to promote research commercialization, internships and cooperative learning, workforce development, and adult education. He previously was Associate Vice President for Community Engagement at Xavier University in Cincinnati and founding executive director of the university’s James C. Eigel Center for Community-Engaged Learning.

White began his career as a newspaper journalist, serving as the editorial page editor of The Cincinnati Post, and as an editorial writer for the Chicago Tribune and editor of its Urban Affairs Team. He later became the Tribune’s senior manager for community relations. Between newspaper stints, White was executive director of the Conference of Walnut Hills Churches in Cincinnati and worked as a consultant with community-based organizations on Chicago’s West Side through the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern University, on whose national faculty he serves.

White currently represents Cleveland State on the executive boards of the Fund for Our Economic Future, Cleveland Neighborhood Progress, and Campus District Inc., where he serves as chair, and on the executive committee of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities’ Council on Engagement and Outreach. He is a Research Associate at the Kettering Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Board of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.

White has a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania, a master’s degree in social science from the University of Chicago, and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Honors Tutorial College at Ohio University.

Location

Mather Mansion

Start Date

20-4-2016 12:30 PM

End Date

20-4-2016 1:15 PM

Abstract

Cleveland State University is among a select group of institutions nationally that has received the Carnegie Foundation's Community Engagement designation. Plans are underway to develop engaged learning certification for students who complete coursework and co-curricular activities that align with the Carnegie designation. This talk will describe ways that the engaged learning effort can align with, complement and strengthen the University's general education program.