Campus Compact is pleased to announce that Emily Andrea Sendin, professor of communication, arts & philosophy at Miami Dade College, has been awarded Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award. The award, presented in partnership with Brown University’s Swearer Center, recognizes senior faculty who practice exemplary engaged scholarship through teaching and research. Recipients are selected on the basis of their collaboration with communities, institutional impact, and high-quality academic work.
Sendin is recognized as a champion of change-making education, creating community-engaged learning experiences that inspire students and prepare them for lives of informed, engaged participation in our democracy. Since 2007, over 1,100 of Sendin’s students have participated in community-engaged learning projects through her classes. Throughout her work, Sendin demonstrates a deep understanding of the power of engaging students in their communities, working side-by-side with them to build mutually beneficial partnerships with community members. There are numerous examples of partnerships facilitated by Sendin that have resulted in meaningful positive change in communities in south Florida and around the world.
“For more than 20 years she has worked tirelessly to incorporate community-engaged learning into all her writing, reading, and literature courses, and to develop service partnerships with tremendous depth, impact, and reciprocal benefits,” said Josh Young, college-wide director for MDC’s Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy in a letter nominating Sendin for the award. “Professor Sendin spends a great deal of time carefully integrating community-engaged learning into her courses. She is one of the most community-engaged faculty in the entire college. Her dedication to helping her students become changemakers is second to none.”
In addition, the following faculty have been named this year’s Ehrlich Award finalists: Jennifer Wesely, professor of criminology and criminal justice at the University of North Florida, and Bryan Crandall, director of the Connecticut Writing Project and associate professor of English education at Fairfield University.
The Thomas Ehrlich Civically Engaged Faculty Award is presented as part of Campus Compact's Impact Awards, which recognize the outstanding work of individuals and institutions in pursuit of the public purposes of higher education.
Awardees will be recognized during a summer event series hosted by Campus Compact and IARSLCE to celebrate the recipients of each organization’s annual awards.
For more information contact:
Molly Leiper, Director of Communications, Campus Compact, [email protected]