Patti H. Clayton, Ph.D. Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) Visiting Fellow with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) Consultant with over 50 schools, colleges/universities, and higher education organizations Member, Board of Directors, International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Formerly founding Director of the Center for Excellence in Curricular Engagement at NC State University & Faculty Fellow with National Campus Compact’s Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study

Patti has over ten years of experience as a practitioner-scholar in community-engaged teaching and learning, including leading a multi-faceted scholarship agenda, College-level institutionalization efforts, discipline-based and multi-disciplinary faculty learning communities, engaged graduate and undergraduate education initiatives, and a range of intra- and inter-institutional collaborations. Her work focuses on building the capacity of individuals, units, institutions, and the field as a whole for scholarly community-engaged teaching and learning.

Patti has co-developed with students and faculty a leading critical reflection and assessment model (the DEAL Model for Critical Reflection), models for student leadership in service-learning, and a variety of faculty development and curriculum development processes. Her research interests include the processes and outcomes associated with capacity building and mutual transformation among all partners in community engagement as co-educators, co-learners, and co-generators of knowledge.

She and her student and faculty colleagues are producing an instructors’ guide and a student Tutorial on critical reflection as well as a Faculty Resource Guide on instructional design for integrated service-learning. They have chapters in Teaching and Learning through Inquiry (Virginia Lee, ed., 2004), Students as Colleagues: Expanding the Circle of Service-Learning Leadership (Zlotkowski, Williams, and Longo, eds., 2006), Higher Education and Civic Engagement – International Perspectives (McIlrath and MacLabhrainn, eds., 2007), Establishing and Sustaining the Community Service- Learning Professional: A Workbook for Self-Directed Learning (Jacoby and Mutascio, eds., 2010), International Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Research (Bringle, Hatcher, and Jones, eds., 2010), and Advances in Service-Learning Research (Billig and Bowden, eds., 2008; Moely, Billig, and Holland, eds., 2009); and they have articles in such peer-reviewed journals as Innovative Higher Education, On the Horizon, Creative College Teaching, Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education, and the Michigan Journal for Community Service Learning. Clayton has given over 100 conference presentations, many of them co-facilitated with undergraduate or graduate students. She serves as co-editor with Bringle and Hatcher of the forthcoming book Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment and with her IUPUI colleagues has co-authored chapters in To Improve the Academy and The Handbook of Practice and Research in Study Abroad: Higher Education and the Quest for Global Citizenship. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education and as a reviewer for the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

She was named the North Carolina College Personnel Association’s Distinguished Scholar and was a Finalist for Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning and its Leadership Award for Campus and Community Engagement.

Patti has integrated service-learning into all of her own courses for the past ten years, and in all aspects of her work she seeks to support intellectual, personal, and civic development through creating opportunities for reflective practice, leadership, and mentoring. Beyond community-engaged teaching and learning, her academic interests include environmental ethics, leadership education, and the history and philosophy of science. She received her Ph.D. and M.S. from the Curriculum in Ecology at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Patti lives in Cary, NC with her husband, Kevin, and their feline family. She reads everything she can get her hands on by Parker Palmer (Let Your Life Speak is a constant companion) and Diana Gabaldon (historical fiction), enjoys spending time in the mountains (any mountains, but especially southwest Virginia), fell in love with Zion and Denali National Parks on her first visits, and is lifelong fan of Star Trek and John Denver.



National engagement scholar reference (excerpted from award nomination)