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Margaret A. Post ’96 has been named the director of the College’s Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning.
Established in September 2001 with a $1.2 million endowment from former College Trustee Joseph P. Donelan II ’72, the Donelan Office provides opportunities for faculty and students to combine classroom instruction with experiential learning in the Worcester community; courses with community-based learning components may involve service in a church, community or public service organization, educational environment or health institution. Placement usually involves about two hours of weekly sessions at the community site, with a total of 15-20 hours per semester.
Post, who earned her master’s degree in public policy at the Humphrey Institute of the University of Minnesota, is completing her Ph.D. in social policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. The subject of her doctoral research is “Immigrant Political Incorporation through Grassroots Organizing.” The recipient of the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 2006 and the Arthur Naftalin Award for Public Service from the Humphrey Institute in 2001, she earned a Presidential Service Award at Holy Cross in 1996. Receiving her bachelor of arts degree in music, Post was also a peace and conflict concentrator and member of the College Honors Program.
“I am excited by the expertise and the enthusiasm that Ms. Post will bring to this important position,” says Timothy Austin, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the College. “She and I share a vision for the Donelan Office of Community-Based Learning that will continue the remarkable reputation that Bill Meinhofer established for it and will keep it at the cutting edge of advances in this kind of pedagogy.”
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