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Jeri Childers is the director of Outreach Program Development and the director of the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement at Virginia Tech. She provides leadership for Virginia Tech's engagement activities for the Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement, Continuing and Professional Education, the English Language Institute, the Fine Arts Initiative, the Service-Learning Center, Upward Bound/Talent Search, and Virginia Tech's programs delivered in the National Capital Region, at the Inn at Virginia Tech Conference Center, and at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center. Last year, Outreach Program Development offered 450 programs, impacting the lives of more than 35,000 participants. More recently, she initiated and co-led the development of the Engagement Academy for University Leaders, served the steering committee leading Virginia Tech's successful application to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. In 2007, Jeri co-chaired, the Virginia Tech Task Force on Student Engagement. Childers teaches at Virginia Tech and developed or co-developed course topics in student engagement and the engaged university. Childers has been working in outreach and continuing education since 1986. Prior to joining Virginia Tech in 2004, she worked for the Pennsylvanian State University and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Over her 11-year tenure at Penn State, Childers served as the director of Workforce Development, director of Outreach Program Development, and the assistant dean for Continuing and Distance Education in the Smeal College of Business. She also launched the first Outreach Scholarship Conference at Penn State in 1999, serving as the conference chair until 2004. Her research interests include organizational, economic, and community development, continuing professional education, leadership in higher education, and university engagement. Childers has served as guest editor of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, and has authored a number of articles on outreach scholarship and engagement, international programs development, and continuing education. She currently serves on the executive committee of the Council on Engagement and Outreach of the National Association of State Land-Grant University and College Council on Engagement and Outreach. She also served as the chair of the University Continuing Education Association Outreach and Engagement Community of Practice and is responsible for launching an online database of Promising Practices in Engagement. In addition, she serves as a member of the Higher Education Network of Community Engagement and the 2008 Emerging Scholars Conference, which is held in conjunction with the Outreach Scholarship Conference. |
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