- Indiana University School of Social Work
Robert G. Bringle, Ph.D. (Social Psychology, University of Massachusetts, 1974) Chancellor’s Professor of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies
Executive Director, IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Dr. Bringle has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs directed at talented undergraduate psychology majors, high school psychology teachers, first-year students, and the introductory psychology course. As a social psychologist, he is widely known for his research on jealousy in close relationships. His work as Executive Director of the IUPUI Center for Service and Learning since 1994 has resulted in an expansion of the number of service learning courses, a curriculum for faculty development, a Community Service Scholars program, an America Reads tutoring program, and a HUD Community Outreach Partnership Center. The IUPUI service learning program was ranked 8th best in the nation among all colleges and universities in 2002 and has been listed among the best programs each subsequent year. IUPUI received a Presidential Award in 2006 as part of the first President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. His scholarly interests for service learning, community service, and civic engagement include student and faculty attitudes and motives, educational outcomes, institutionalization, and assessment and measurement issues.
He has published With Service in Mind: Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Psychology (edited with D. Duffy), Colleges and Universities as Citizens (edited with R. Games & E. Malloy), The Measure of Service Learning: Research Scales to Assess Student Experiences (with M. Phillips and M. Hudson). Dr. Bringle was awarded the School of Science Teaching Award in 1994, the SOS Service Award in 1995, the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning in 1998, the Brian Hiltunen Faculty Award from Indiana Campus Compact in 2000, and the W. George Pinnell Award for Service from Indiana University in 2003. In 2004, he was recognized at the 4th Annual International Service-Learning Research Conference for his outstanding contributions to the service-learning research field. He consults with other campuses, on national initiatives, and internationally (South Africa, Macedonia, Mexico, Egypt) on issues related to community service and civic engagement. He was Volunteer of the Year in 2001 for Boys and Girls Clubs of Indianapolis. The University of the Free State, South Africa, awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2004 for his scholarly work on civic engagement and service learning. In 2008, Dr. Bringle was recognized as one of the most prominent alumni scientists by his alma mater, Hanover College.
Patti H. Clayton, PhD (University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, 1995)
Independent Consultant PHC Ventures (www.curricularengagement.com)
Senior Scholar, Center for Service and Learning, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Visiting Fellow, New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE)
As a Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning, Dr. Clayton has been involved for five years with program development and assessment, faculty development, and research related to service-learning and civic engagement at IUPUI. She has served as a consultant with over 45 schools, universities, and higher education organizations. Previously, she was founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement at NC State University and served as a Faculty Fellow with National Campus Compact’s Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study.
Throughout Dr. Clayton’s academic career, she has been involved in the development, implementation, and evaluation of educational programs. Her scholarly interests include critical reflection and assessment, student and faculty learning, instructional design and curriculum development, student leadership in service-learning, and transformational relationships among all partners in the educational enterprise in their capacities as co-educators, co-learners, and co-generators of knowledge. Her efforts focus on building the capacity of individuals, units, institutions, and the field as a whole for scholarly community engagement in particular and teaching and learning in general.
Her work has appeared in Teaching and Learning through Inquiry, Higher Education and Civic Engagement - International Perspectives, Advances in Service-Learning Research, Innovative Higher Education, To Improve the Academy, the Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, and the Michigan Journal for Community Service Learning. She serves as co-editor with Bringle and Hatcher of the forthcoming book Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment and has self-published, with Dr. Sarah Ash (NC State University) Learning through Critical Reflection: A Tutorial for Service-Learning Students (with an accompanying instructor guide).
Virginia Majewski, PhD serves as professor and associate dean of the Indiana University School of Social Work. She holds a Master of Arts in Hispanic Languages, Master of Social Work, and doctorate in Public and International Affairs from the University of Pittsburgh. Previous academic appointments include Chairperson of the Division of Social Work at West Virginia University, Associate Professor at the University of Wyoming, and Associate Professor and Department Chair of Social Work & Gerontology at California University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of teaching include: Community organizing, social policy, research, program evaluation, group work, and cross-cultural practice. She co-designed and -taught four service-learning courses on American Indian reservations in South Dakota. Dr. Majewski’s research and scholarship include service and experiential learning to enhance the social work curriculum; hunger and food insecurity; American Indian issues; rural social work practice; and, applied ethnographic research. She has received grants for implementing service learning in the curriculum and building co-curricular volunteer opportunities for social work students. In 2007, she co-edited a book on Social work and service learning: Partnerships for social justice.
Lisa E. McGuire, MSW, Ph.D. (Social Welfare, Case Western Reserve, 2000)
Associate Professor of the Indiana University School of Social Work and
Senior Scholar, IUPUI Center for Service and Learning
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Lisa McGuire has focused her career as a social worker and educator on the well-being of children and families. She spent over ten years in practice, providing community-based services to prevent and intervene in child abuse and neglect, before coming to the university in 1989. She began her career in academia as a Teacher-Practitioner with students doing their field practica working with families in the Indianapolis public housing communities. In 2000, she authored a proposal to create a partnership between the Indiana public child welfare system and the Indiana University School of Social Work to utilize federal funding to provide MSW education to public child welfare workers. This collaboration has expanded into a multi-million dollar partnership for training and education for both BSW and MSW students to enhance the capacity of the public child welfare workforce. In 2001, Dr. McGuire became an Assistant Professor and began teaching human behavior and introductory policy for Master’s level students, as well as group work with Bachelor’s students. She instituted service-learning and/or community-based learning experiences in all of her courses. She expanded opportunities for multiple course sections to participate in those service-learning experiences, engaging multiple faculty members in utilizing service-learning pedagogy for diverse courses. A long proponent for the reflective component of service-learning, she has recently embraced the DEAL model of structured, critical reflection (Ash & Clayton, 2004) and has focused her scholarship around enhancing the utilization of structured, critical reflection as a pedagogy as a means to integrate theory with professional practice in educating social workers. In 2009, she was named a Senior Scholar with the Indiana University Center for Service and Learning and is also focusing on qualitative methodology in development of theory and evidence for practice of service-learning pedagogy.
Dr. Irene Queiro-Tajalli received her B.S.W. from Argentina, her M.S.W. from Iran, and her Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her areas of practice and teaching are generalist social work practice with a focus on community practice. Since 2001 she has developed and taught online courses. She has experience in working with clients from diverse backgrounds including Latinos, Native Americans, and Iranians.
Her volunteer positions have been at the local, state, and national levels. Dr. Queiro-Tajalli served for two terms as commissioner for the Commission on Accreditation, Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Latino Social Worker/Human Services Providers Network of Indiana. She is the President of the DANESH Institute; a certified site visitor for the Commission on Accreditation; member of the Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, NASW Indiana Chapter; board member of the Association for Community Organization and Social Administration (ACOSA) and member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Community Practice, sponsored by ACOSA.
In 2008, Dr. Queiro-Tajalli was recognized as one of the Outstanding Hispanic Social Worker by NASW. In 2009, Dr. Queiro-Tajalli received the Joseph T. Taylor Award for Excellence in Diversity, IUPUI Office of the Chancellor, and she was one of the recipients of the Torchbearer Award from the Indiana Commission for Women, the highest honor given to women by the state of Indiana.
Her current public presentations and writings focus on community organizing, social movements, aging, Muslims post 9/11, online teaching, educational assessment, and Latinos.
Kathy Lay, Ph.D. (Associate Professor) joined the Indiana University School of Social work in August, 2002. Prior to joining the IU faculty she taught at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed her doctoral work in social work at University of Louisville, Kent School of Social Work and as a part of her doctoral studies in social work, obtained a Certificate in Women’s Studies. She has over twenty years of clinical practice experience with individuals, couples, and families as well as extensive training in family therapy. Current research interests are addictions, critical reflection, and service-learning. She is a former Boyer Scholar (2006-2007) and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in state of Kentucky and a member of NASW and CSWE.