Cultivating Community‑Engaged Learning

and Leadership

Self-Paced Cornell Course

As the Associate Vice Provost for Engagement and Land-Grant Affairs and the Director of Academic Initiatives in the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, Richard Kiely stewards the design and implementation of the Engaged College Initiative and oversees academic programs and initiatives. He also offers general advising to faculty, staff and students interested in incorporating community-engaged learning into their teaching and research endeavors.

In 2002, Dr. Kiely received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, and from 2002 to 2006, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Policy and Administration at the University of Georgia. In 2005, he was recognized nationally as a John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning for research that developed a transformative service-learning model.

In 2011, 2014 and 2015, Dr. Kiely served as co-editor of two special sections on global service-learning for the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning. He is a co-author of “Community-Based Global Learning: The Theory and Practice of Ethical Engagement at Home and Abroad” (2018) and co-founder of the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative, a multi-institutional network advancing ethical, critical and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive and sustainable communities.

Dr. Kiely was the inaugural director of Cornell’s Center for Community-Engaged Learning and Research (2011-2015).

Amy Newman is a Senior Lecturer of Management Communication at the School of Hotel Administration, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. She teaches courses in business writing, persuasive communication, organizational behavior, and corporate communication. Professor Newman is the author of “Business Communication: In Person, In Print, Online” (Cengage, 10e) and “Building Leadership Character” (Sage, 2018). Prior to joining Cornell, she was an adjunct instructor at Ithaca College, eCornell, and Milano, The New School for Management and Urban Policy in New York City. Professor Newman spent most of her career in corporate positions and external consulting roles. Internally, she held management positions in human resources and leadership development. As an external consultant, she worked to improve employee performance and communication in hospitality, technology, education, publishing, financial services, and entertainment companies. Professor Newman has won grants to develop technology-based learning solutions as well as awards for teaching excellence and student advising. She is a director-at-large of the Association for Business Communication.