Barbara Holland, Ph.D.

Professor Barbara A. Holland is internationally recognized for her expertise in community engagement, service- learning, campus-community partnerships, performance measurement and organizational change in higher education. She has held executive administrative positions at University of Sydney, University of Western Sydney, Northern Kentucky University, and Portland State University, and at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. For seven years she was Director of the Learn And Serve America National Service-Learning Clearinghouse.

A frequent consultant, author, and speaker, she has advised more than 100 universities in five countries and helped start several new engagement associations and publications. She has been Editor of Metropolitan Universities journal since 1998 and is co-editor of two other refereed journals related to engagement. In 2006 she received the Research Achievement Award from the International Association for Research on Service-learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), and she currently serves as Board Chair for the Association. In 2008 she was named one of the first two Honorary Fellows awarded by the Australian Universities Community Engagement Alliance (AUCEA).

Her current priorities include the design and delivery of national and international professional development programs to build leadership for community engagement in higher education, including facilitating the development of effective approaches to measuring the impacts of engagement activities on communities, institutions, students and faculty.

Professor Holland earned her Bachelor and Masters of Journalism from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Policy from the University of Maryland. She resides near Portland, Oregon, USA.

Selected Publications

Andy Furco and Barbara Holland. “Using Organizational Change Theory to Assess Institutionalization of Service-Learning and Community Engagement.” In Research on Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment. Patti Clayton, Robert Bringle and Julie Hatcher, Editors. (forthcoming from Stylus Publishing, 2012)

Lee, G., McGuiggan, R. & Holland, B. “Balancing Student Learning Outcomes in the Workplace.” Higher Education Research and Development, Vol. 29, Issue 5, 2010.

Barbara A. Holland and Mark Langseth. “Leveraging Financial Support for Service-Learning: Relevance, Relationships, Results, Resources.” In Establishing and Sustaining the Service-Learning Professional, Barbara Jacoby, Editor. Campus Compact, 2009.

Barbara A. Holland. “Service-Learning as a Force for Organizational Change.” International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. 17, No. 1, 2009.

Barbara A. Holland. “Will it Last? Evidence of Institutionalization at Carnegie Classified Community Engagement Institutions.” In “The Carnegie Classification of Community Engaged Institutions: Findings from the First Wave,” Lorilee Sandmann, Courtney Thornton, and Audrey Jaeger, Editors. New Directions in Higher Education, Jossey-Bass/Wiley Publishing, 2009.

Barbara A. Holland and Gail Robinson. “Community-based Learning for Adults: Bridging Efforts in Multiple Sectors.” In Linking Adults with Community: Using the tools of community-based learning to promote civic engagement, Susan Reed and Catherine Marienau, Editors. New Directions in Adult and Continuing Education, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2008.

Marie Sandy and Barbara A. Holland. “Different Worlds and Common Ground: Community Partner Perspectives on Campus-Community Relationships.” Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol. 13. No. 1, Fall 2006.

Dr. Sarah Flicker, PhD

Dr. Sarah Flicker’s background is in the area of community development, public health, HIV and adolescent development. She is engaged in an exciting and innovative program of research that focuses on teen HIV prevention and support. More broadly, she is very interested in community-based participatory methodologies and is active on a variety of research teams that focus on adolescent sexual health with youth in Canada and South Africa. She works across methodologies (qualitative, quantitative and arts-based) and seeks to partner with youth, students and allied practitioners on action research agendas.