Program Director and Professor, Community Engagement
My current summary appears to stop mid-sentence. Let’s update it to: I pursue scholarship pertinent to the discipline and field of community engagement. I explore innovations in global engagement, access, equity, and social change.
Falk, A., & Carey, A. (2017). “Facilitating High School Achievement and College Access Through a Service-Learning Mentoring Initiative.” In Delano-Oriaran, O.O., Penick-Parks, M.W., & Fondrie, S. (Eds.), Culturally engaging service-learning in diverse communities. (pp. 169-190). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A., & Vine, B. (2016). “Supporting Graduate Students to Implement Community-Engaged Research.” In C. Crosby & F. Brockmeier (Eds.), Student experiences and educational outcomes in community engagement for the 21st century (pp. 196-224). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Nemon, M., & Falk, A. (2023). Advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through higher education community engagement. HETL Frontiers, 1(1), 1-2.
Falk, A.F. , Jordaan, M., Saeed, S.T., Chaoui, N., & Rao, M.B. (2022). Exploring the literature and rationale for global e-cultural learning. In Meletiadou, E. (Ed.), Fostering social justice through intercultural and multilingual communication: Pedagogy, andragogy, and assessment. (pp. 218-244). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A.F., Carrasco-Velez, R., Shannon, M., & Proulx, E. (2022). Advancing college diversity and access through partnership. In Meletiadou, E. (Ed.), Practices for advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education. (pp. 149-170). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A., & Willer, J. (2022). The disciplining and professionalization of community engagement: The Master’s degree. Information Resources Management Association (Ed). Research Anthology on Service Learning and Community Engagement Teaching Practices (pp. 1048-1065). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-3877-0.ch056. Reprinted, with original chapter in Kronick, R.F. (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on community schools and the engaged university. (pp. 205-222). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A.F., & Lawrence, T. (2021). Career-ready through remote and hybrid fellowships: Experiential learning in graduate education. In Northrup, P., Rasmussen, K., & Colson, R. (Eds.), Career ready education through experiential learning. (pp. 68-89). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Roumimper, K. R., & Falk, A. F. (2021). Peer support of graduate students of color through a formal graduate student association. In Information Resources Management Association (Ed.), Research anthology on empowering marginalized communities and mitigating racism and discrimination (pp. 1089-1107). IGI Global. http://doi:10.4018/978-1-7998-8547-4.ch052. Reprinted, with original chapter in Leavitt, L., Wisdom, S., & Bice, C. (Eds.), Social inequality and education. (pp. 111-129). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A., & Orbon, K. (2021). Pedagogy of the pandemic: What we have learned as mother-scholar-practitioners. In Bozkurt, A. (ed.) Handbook of research on emerging pedagogies for the future of education: Trauma-informed, care, and pandemic pedagogy. (pp. 347-367). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A., & Carey, A. (2021). Lawrence2College: A mentoring initiative. In Information Resources Management Association (Ed.). (2021). Research anthology on instilling social justice in the classroom (pp. 784-805). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7706-6.ch046. Reprinted, with original chapter in Delano-Oriaran, O.O., Penick-Parks, M.W., & Fondrie, S. (Eds.), Culturally engaging service-learning in diverse communities. (pp. 169-190). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A., Berthelsen, C., & Meccouri, L. (2020). Appreciative inquiry and graduate students’ professional development. In Bhattacharya, S., &, Chakraborty, T. (Eds.), Appreciative inquiry approaches to organizational transformation. (pp. 208-224). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A. (2019). What can service-learning and community engagement contribute to our understanding of cooperative and work-integrated education? In Zegwaard, K.E., & Ford, M. (Eds.), Refereed proceedings of the 21st WACE World Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education. (pp. 59-66). Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati.
Falk, A., & Olwell, R. (2019). Institutionalizing community engagement in higher education: The Community Engagement Institute. In Moravec, J. (Ed.), Emerging education futures: Voices and experience from around the world. (pp. 59-79). Minneapolis, MN: Education Futures.
Falk, A., & Willer, J. (2019). The disciplining and professionalization of community engagement: The Master’s degree. In Kronick, R.F. (Ed.), Emerging perspectives on community schools and the engaged university. (pp. 205-222). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Roumimper, K., & Falk, A. (2019). Peer support of graduate students of color through a formal graduate student association. In Leavitt, L., Wisdom, S., & Bice, C. (Eds.), Social inequality and education. (pp. 111-129). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Rupert, E., & Falk, A. (2018). Teaching and learning about diversity and social justice at the graduate level: Students’ attitudes about classroom sharing. Multicultural Perspectives, 20(3), 167-173. doi: 10.1080/15210960.2018.1467766
Falk, A., & Carey, A. (2017). Lawrence2College: A mentoring initiative. In Delano-Oriaran, O.O., Penick-Parks, M.W., & Fondrie, S. (Eds.), Culturally engaging service-learning in diverse communities. (pp. 169-190). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A., & Vine, B. (2016). Supporting graduate students to implement community-engaged research. In C. Crosby & F. Brockmeier (Eds.), Student experiences and educational outcomes in community engagement for the 21st century (pp. 196-224). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Falk, A. (2013). Service learning students’ perceptions of citizenship. Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 5(1), 3-12.
Brammer, L., Dumlao, R., Falk, A., Hollander, E., Knutson, E., Poehnert, J., Politano, A., Werner, V. (2013). Core competencies in civic engagement. Journal of Service-Learning in Higher Education, 2, 76-109.
Falk, A., Durington, M., & Lankford, E. (2012). Engaging Sharp-Leadenhall: An interdisciplinary faculty collaboration in service-learning. Journal of Public Scholarship in Higher Education, 2, 32-49.
Falk, A. (2012). Enhancing the team experience in service learning courses. Journal for Civic Commitment, 18.
Falk, A. (2011). Teaching grantsmanship in a nonprofit leadership class. Journal of the Grant Professionals Association, 9(1), 78-87.
Falk, A. (2011). Mr. Mom and Mrs. Breadwinner: A personal account. Clio’s Psyche, 17(4), 321-324.
Falk, A. (2011). Imbuing the study of family resource management with a global perspective. Family Science Review, 16(1), 84-93.
Jacobson, J.M., Oravecz, L.M., & Falk, A.F., & Osteen, P. (2011). Proximate outcomes of service-learning among family studies undergraduates. Family Science Review, 16(1), 22-33.
Williams, P.H., & Falk, A. (2010). Service learning and millenial students: Benefits and challenges to a team-based approach. Professional Development: The International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education, 13(3), 16-24.
• Advanced Leadership Fellowship Program, Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND), UMass Chan Medical School, 2023-2024
• Chair Academy’s International Exemplary Leadership Award, 2021
• Service-Learning Faculty Award, Maryland Campus Compact, 2010
• A2 Fellows Program, American Institutes for Research, 2005-2007
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Educational Policy Research Involving Students with Disabilities, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004-2005
Gill, who will mark 15 years at Merrimack next spring, was named the College’s chief operating officer this past summer and expanded her portfolio to oversight of all campus operations.
