About the Episode

On this episode of #CompactNationPod, Andrew talks with Eric Mlyn and Amanda Moore McBride,  authors of the upcoming publication, Connecting Civic Engagement and Social Innovation: Toward Higher Education’s Democratic Promise. Plus, some of our initial thoughts and reactions to the spread of the coronavirus.

Get in touch—we’re opening up a hotline for you to share your thoughts and questions about higher education civic and community engagement work and the ongoing pandemic. Call us at (617) 237-6381 and leave a message by Friday, 3/27. We’ll feature a selection of messages on the next episode of #CompactNationPod.

Show Notes

Guests

  • Amanda Moore McBride is the Morris Endowed Dean and a professor at the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver and adviser to the university’s innovation and entrepreneurship initiative, Project X-ITE. Prior to 2016, McBride was the Bettie Bofinger Brown associate professor at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work and the founding executive director of the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement, Washington University, in St. Louis.

  • Eric Mlyn is a distinguished faculty fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and a lecturer at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He is the founding director of DukeEngage and led that program until July 2019.

Your Hosts

Andrew Seligsohn

President

Marisol Morales

Vice President, Network Leadership

Emily J. Shields

Executive Director, Iowa & Minnesota Campus Compact