Elaine Ward Editor

Margaret A. Post is a Visiting Scholar at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, USA. She is author of Grassroots Coalitions and State Policy Change (2011) and is Senior Researcher with the Innovation Network, Inc. conducting a participatory evaluation with the Center for Community Change.

Elaine Ward is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College, USA. She is coordinator for the Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty and is a NERCHE Visiting Scholar. Elaine also serves on the Board for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and as a Senior Research Associate for the Center for Engaged Democracy.

Nicholas V. Longo is Chair of Global Studies and Professor of Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College, USA. Nick is author of Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life (SUNY Press), co-editor of From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities (Tufts University Press), and co-editor of a forthcoming book on deliberative pedagogy.

John A. Saltmarsh is Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA and a professor in the Higher Education Doctoral Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development. He has published widely on community engagement including, with Matthew Hartley, an edited volume To Serve a Larger Purpose: Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education (2011) and with Edward Zlotkowski, Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (2011). He is the co-author of the Democratic Engagement White Paper (NERCHE, 2009) and Full participation: Building the architecture for diversity and public engagement in higher education.