Barbara Holland joins ETR as National Service-Learning ClearinghouseDire

Dear SL colleagues,

As the higher education senior program advisor for the Learn and Serve
America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse, we are pleased to share
the press release below:

National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
New Direction, New Leadership

Barbara Holland joins ETR as NSLC Director

Two new faces now grace the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse: One
is Barbara Holland, Ph.D., the new NSLC director, and the other is the
newly redesigned Clearinghouse website, www.servicelearning.org.

On April 1, Dr. Holland officially joined the staff of ETR Associates,
which operates the NSLC for Learn and Serve America and the Corporation
for National and Community Service. She comes to the Clearinghouse after
an extended appointment as the director of the Office of University
Partnerships at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in
Washington, D.C.

"I am delighted to welcome Barbara Holland as the new Director of the
National Service-Learning Clearinghouse," said Amy Cohen, director of
Learn and Serve America. "Barbara brings extensive experience in many
fields relevant to the Clearinghouse: service-learning, research,
assessment, community-partnership building, and institutional change. Her
leadership will ensure that the Clearinghouse will continue to build an
outstanding national collection of resources for the growing field of
service-learning and will make these easily accessible to all."

Carlos Pedraza, ETR's Director of Clearinghouse Services, added, "We at
ETR are excited about the type of service-learning expertise Dr. Holland
brings to NSLC, especially in the areas of assessment, community
partnerships, and civic engagement. We're counting on her leadership to
complete the move to make the Clearinghouse the national site for
service-learning information."

For the past 18 months, Dr. Holland has been on loan to HUD from Indiana
University-Purdue University Indianapolis to direct HUD's Office of
University Partnerships and its nine grant programs, totaling nearly $45
million a year, supporting campus-community partnerships and research.

Before joining IUPUI, Dr. Holland held academic leadership positions at
Northern Kentucky University (1998-2000) and Portland State University
(1991-1998), where she contributed to major reforms of curricula, faculty
roles and civic engagement programs.

Since 1997, she has served as executive editor of Metropolitan
Universities, a quarterly journal on research and practice relevant to
urban-serving universities and colleges. Her research, presentations and
many publications reflect her interests in strategic planning and
organizational change in higher education, with special emphasis on the
institutionalization and assessment of service-learning, other civic
engagement strategies, and community-university partnerships. She is
co-author of the comprehensive model for assessing service-learning,
published last summer by Campus Compact.

Her master's and bachelor's degrees in journalism are from the University
of Missouri-Columbia, and she earned her Ph.D. in higher educational
policy at the University of Maryland.

She retains her appointment as a Senior Scholar at IUPUI, and will also
work at ETR as a senior researcher.

ETR Associates is a nonprofit agency that provides leadership,
educational resources, training and research in health promotion and
community development. In addition to the National Service-Learning
Clearinghouse, ETR also operates the following projects on behalf of the
Corporation for National and Community Service: the National Service
Resource Center; the EpiCenter online database of effective practices in
national and community service; the Senior Corps Technology Center. Its
Clearinghouse Services Department also operates the Tobacco Education
Clearinghouse of California and the clearinghouse for the California
Children and Families Commission.

Relevant Websites
· National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
http://www.servicelearning.org
· Learn and Serve America
http://www.learnandserve.org
· National Service Resource Center
http://www.etr.org/nsrc
· EpiCenter
http://www.nationalservice.org/resources/epicenter
· Senior Corps Technology Center
http://www.seniortechcenter.org

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CCPH is the Higher Education Senior Program Advisor for the Learn and
Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
Visit the Clearinghouse at http://www.servicelearning.org
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