Dan W. Butin

BIO
Dan W. Butin is an Associate Professor and founding Dean of the School of Education at Merrimack College and the executive director of the Center for Engaged Democracy. He is the author and editor of more than seventy academic publications, including the books Service-Learning in Theory and Practice: The Future of Community Engagement in Higher Education (2010), which won the 2010 Critics Choice Book Award of the American Educational Studies Association, Service-Learning and Social Justice Education (2008), Teaching Social Foundations of Education (2005), and, most recently with Scott Seider, The Engaged Campus: Majors, Minors and Certificates  as the New Community Engagement (2012). Dr. Butin is the Associate Editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, a board member of the Journal of College and Character, and is currently serving on the AAC&U and AASCU national steering committee investigating the assessment of civic learning in the Lumina Foundation’s Degree Qualifications Profile. Dr. Butin's research focuses on issues of educator preparation and policy, and community engagement. Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Butin was a middle school math and science teacher and the chief financial officer of Teach For America. He blogs at the Education Policy Blog and at the Huffington Post. More about Dr. Butin’s work can be found at http://www.danbutin.net/. Click here for a full CV.

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