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Paul T. Crawford serves as Director of Community College Relations for Northern Illinois University and co-leads the Northern Illinois PURE project. He joined NIU in January of 2002 as a Gift and Estate Planning Officer before beginning his current work in August 2005.
Prior to coming to NIU, Paul served as Director of Financial Assistance at Illinois Valley Community College and held other positions at National-Louis University. He has taught at the secondary and college level in Illinois and Wisconsin. Paul is currently pursuing an EdD in Adult and Higher Education at NIU with a particular interest on change resistance.
1. American Community Colleges
2. Career and Technical Education (Vocational/Further Education)
3. Organizational Behavior in Higher Educational Institutions
4. Change Resistance and Change Management
5. Adaptive Leadership
6. Regional Learning
1. Co-manage the Illinois PASCAL Universities Regional Engagement (PURE) initiative.
2. Manage the Illinois PURE project: “Turning Data into Information” for regional economic and workforce development.
3. Team member on projects associated with: (a) Increasing access to the baccalaureate for Vocational/Technical students; and (b) Engagement with Latino populations.
Member: University Continuing Educational Association
Crawford, P, Kaplan, A. & Robinson D. (2010). From service to engagement: Moving margins to the center. In Inman, P. & Schuetze, H. (Eds). The community engagement and service mission of universities. Leicester, England: NIACE.
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