Emily Janke
Special Assistant for Community Engagement
Office of Research and Economic Development
UNCG
PO Box 16170
Greensboro, NC 27402 emjanke@uncg.edu
Phone:336.256.2578
Background Information
Emily M. Janke is the Special Assistant for Community Engagement in the Office of Research and Economic Development at UNCG (http://communityengagement.uncg.edu), where she collaborates with a wide range of constituents across campus and in the greater community to address the following questions: What does excellence in community engagement mean for UNCG? Where are we now relative to that, and what is supporting / hindering us in achieving excellence at present? How do we want to make progress toward excellence, and what do we need to support this? Previously, Emily served as the Assistant Director for Service-Learning at UNCG providing curricular, administrative, and partnership support to faculty members and students who seek to enhance their teaching, learning, research, and service through academic service-learning and community-engaged research strategies. She received her Ph.D. in Higher Education from The Pennsylvania State University and her B.A. from Colgate University in Environmental Geography. Emily continues to incorporate service-learning into her curricula, as well as partner with other scholars to research student and faculty perceptions of community engagement. Her articles on public scholarship, graduate education programs, faculty motivation for public scholarship, and faculty-community partnerships have appeared in Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, Advances in Service-Learning Research, New Directions for Teaching and Learning, and Higher Education in Review. Emily is a Visiting Fellow with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) and is collaboratively exploring issues related to the next generation of engaged scholars. She serves as an elected board member for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE). She was a co-winner of the 2008 IARSLCE Dissertation Award for her dissertation, Shared Partnership Identity between Faculty and Community Partners.