Biography
Glenn A. Bowen, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Center for Community Service Initiatives and Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan. Holding the faculty rank of Associate Professor, he provides strategic leadership for community engagement, encompassing student civic learning, engaged faculty development, and university–community partnerships. Under his leadership, Barry has attained the prestigious Carnegie Community Engagement Classification and has received national, state-level, and local recognition for achievements in civic engagement. Bowen has published several book chapters and dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles based on his service-learning and community engagement research. In addition, he has made presentations at conferences not only in North America but also in Asia, Australia, and Europe. He is a former Co-editor of the International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and serves on the Editorial/Review Boards of two other scholarly journals. Named “one of South Florida’s Top Black Educators” by Legacy (magazine) in 2013 and 2017, Bowen was the winner of Florida Campus Compact’s Engaged Scholarship/Research Award in 2018.