Professional Development Seminar

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Title: "Adult Learning Theory and Strategies for Adult Learners"

Speaker: Richard Kiely, PhD, senior fellow at the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell University

Speaker bio: Richard Kiely, PhD is a senior fellow at the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement at Cornell University. He served as inaugural director of the Center for Community-Engaged Learning and Research (2011-2015) in support of Engaged Cornell. In 2002, Dr. Kiely received his PhD from Cornell University. From 2002 to 2006, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy at the University of Georgia. He taught courses in community development, qualitative and community-based research, (global) service-learning, program planning, and adult learning theory. In 2005, Dr. Kiely was recognized nationally as a John Glenn Scholar in Service-Learning for research that developed a transformative service-learning model. He is a co-author of "Community-Based Global Learning: The Theory and Practice of Ethical Engagement at Home and Abroad" (2018) and co-founder of the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative, a multi-institutional network advancing ethical, critical, and aspirationally de-colonial community-based learning and research for more just, inclusive, and sustainable communities.

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