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Mark N. Langseth is Assistant Vice President for University Development at Portland State University (PSU), a growing university with over 25,000 students located in the heart of Portland, Oregon. Mark oversees PSU's efforts to identify prospective donors and to cultivate, solicit, close, and steward charitable gifts that help advance PSU's mission and programs. Previously, Mark served as Vice President for University Advancement and Executive Director of the Foundation at Metropolitan State University, a 9,000-student university based in St. Paul, Minnesota. For eleven years, Mark served as Founding Executive Director of Minnesota Campus Compact, a coalition of 50 college and university presidents committed to advancing the civic purposes of higher education. He has also served as Chief Operating Officer of the National Youth Leadership Council and as Founding Director of the Minnesota Campus Service Initiative. Mark was chosen as one of 38 participants from an applicant pool of over 700 for the prestigious "Kellogg Fellowship" National Leadership Program. As a Kellogg Fellow from 1997-2000, he pursued a self-designed course of study on multicultural education, civic engagement, and community development. Mark is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on campus civic engagement and co-editor of a 2005 book entitled Public Work and the Academy: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Service-Learning and Civic Engagement. Most recently, he co-authored a chapter entitled "Engagement as Core University Leadership Position and as Advancement Strategy" for a special edition of the International Journal for Educational Advancement published in 2007. Also to be published in 2007 is a chapter Mark co-authored entitled "Leveraging Financial Resources for Service-Learning: Relevance, Relationships, Results, Resources," for inclusion in a Campus Compact guidebook for service-learning practitioners. Mark holds a Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management and an Industrial Relations Certificate with High Distinction from the University of Minnesota and a Master's degree in Leadership from Augsburg College. He is the proud husband of Kate DePaolis, an inner-city school teacher, and proud father of two girls, Tess (13) and Teagan (9), for whom Mark serves as frequent chauffeur to soccer, swimming, and other activities. When free from chauffeur duties, Mark enjoys reading, cooking, wine-tasting, biking, hiking, golfing, and retreating to his little "beach shack" on the Oregon coast. |
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