Andrew Furco 
Andrew Furco is Associate Vice President for Public Engagement at the University of Minnesota. He works with vice presidents, chancellors, deans, faculty, staff and students to promote and support publicly engaged teaching, research and service activities and advocate, connect and align engaged initiatives across units and with external constituencies. The associate vice president is charged with expanding state, national and international engagement and enhancing engaged community partnerships, while helping foster a deep and pervasive culture of public engagement to support the University's mission and its goal of becoming one of the world's preeminent public research universities. This position also provides oversight of the Office for Public Engagement, the Council on Public Engagement, and several University centers, including the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, the University Metropolitan Consortium, the Children, Youth and Family Consortium, and the Center for Transportation Studies.
He is the former Director of the International Center for Research on Civic Engagement and Service-Learning at the University of California, Berkeley, where he also served on the faculty in the Graduate School of Education. During his thirteen years as the Center’s director, he led strategic plans to advance the integration of public engagement across the university, and led more than two dozen research studies on the impacts, implementation, and institutionalization of public engagement initiatives in higher education, teacher education, and K-12 education. His studies include an investigation of the ways in which 209 colleges and universities in the U.S. approached the institutionalization of service-learning, and an analysis of different forms of public engagement activities and their differential effects on participating students. He currently is Chair of the University’s Civic Engagement Collaborative, a consortium of 28 managers and directors who oversee units that facilitate a variety of public engagement initiatives. From 1999-2001, he served as the first Chair of the University of California System wide Service-Learning Committee.
His more than 30 publications include “Institutionalizing Service-Learning in Higher Education: Issues and Strategies for Chief Academic Officers” (with B. Holland, 2004), “Advancing Service-Learning at Research Universities” (2001), “Building Partnerships with College Campuses: Community Perspectives (with S. Leiderman, J. Zapf, and M. Goss, 2003), and the books Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy (2002) and Service-Learning Through A Multidisciplinary Lens (2002) (both co-edited with S. Billig). His work has been translated into several languages including German, Spanish, and Catalan.
A National Campus Compact Engaged Scholar and the nation’s first John Glenn Scholar for Service-Learning (awarded by The Ohio State University), he has presented keynote addresses, featured presentations, and workshops at more than 70 national and international civic and community engagement gatherings. He is a member of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement, which conducts external reviews of faculty promotion and tenure portfolios to assess the quality of research that is conducted in the public interest. He currently serves on the board of directors and advisory boards for several leading public engagement organizations and associations, including the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), the Higher Education Network for Community Engagement (HENCE), and the National Network of Research One Universities for Civic Engagement.
His research on public engagement in higher education has been recognized with several awards including the 2003 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Service-Learning Research (presented by IARSLCE) and the National Society for Experiential Education’s 2006 Researcher of the Year Award.
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Michelle R. Dunlap 
Michelle R. Dunlap is an Associate Professor of Human Development and Chair of the Human Development Department at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut. Professor Dunlap graduated from Wayne State University with high distinction and with honors in psychology. She was awarded a McKnight Doctoral Fellowship from the Florida Education Fund. She earned her master of science and doctor of philosophy degrees in social psychology from the University of Florida. She has served on the faculty of the Human Development department at Connecticut College, and recently began serving at the capacity of faculty liaision to the Connecticut College Children's Program. She is currently teaching Introduction to Human Development: Social World of Children & Families; Social and Personality Development; Adolescent Development; and Childen and Families in a Multicultural Society.
Dr. Dunlap specializes in improving college student coping and skills in community service-learning settings; social and personality development; contemporary family issues (e.g., single-parent families, kinship-care families) and multicultural issues and methods for increasing service provider cultural competency.
"Dealing comfortably and competently in cross-cultural communications and interactions is a minimal requirement of our work with children, families, and other human beings. Institutions of higher education more than ever are realizing the need for all students to be well-grounded academically, and practically, especially when it comes to understanding and dealing with people. Students need to be able to apply their acadmic learning to everyday functioning in the real and ever-changing world. Service-learning is one way that institutions of higher education are attempting to bring the curriculum more to life and assist their students in making connections between the classroom and real lifein a multicultural world." - Michelle Robin Dunlap.
Dr. Juan Franco
Dr. Juan Franco is the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) and Professor of Educational Psychology. The Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs oversees the offices of Admissions, Campus Recreation, Career Services, Greek Affairs and Cooperatives, Educational Access and TRIO Programs, Student Judicial Affairs, Registration and Records, University Housing, Student Involvement, Scholarships and Financial Aid, Services for Students with Disabilities, Nebraska Unions and the University Health Center. Prior to coming to UNL, Dr. Franco was Vice President for Student Services and Professor of Psychology at Utah State University (USU) since May 2003. In 2004, he received the Faculty Service Award from Utah State's student government and was named USU Administrator of the Year.
Tiospa Zina Dakota Club 
Thursday evening's poster exhibit and reception will be held at the South Dakota Art Museum. The Museum holds an extensive collection of Native American photographs and tribal art, a display on Marghab Linens, and exhibits featuring contemporary South Dakota artists. The evening will culminate in a performance of native American Dance.
The Tiospa Zina Dakota Club is made up of students from all classes at Tiospa Zina Tribal School (Kindergarten through 12th grade), some of whom have been dancing since they could walk. Dancers will perform the Fancy Shawl, Traditional, Jingle, Grass, and Chicken dances, and will be accompanied by traditional songs and drum. You will not want to miss this celebration of Dakota Culture.