John Reiff

John Reiff is the Director of Community Engagement Program.
From 1973 to 1987, John taught courses on social issues and peace studies at the University of Michigan and directed a program of writing across the curriculum. For the next five years, he taught peace studies and writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and helped direct the Global Peace and Security Program. From 1992 to 2000, John helped lead the reconstruction of the curriculum at Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tennessee, to focus on the "civic arts"-the knowledge and skills needed by citizens to work collaboratively to build solutions to community and societal problems. He oversaw the introduction of service-learning into the curriculum, both creating and directing the service-learning center. Since 2000, he has been Director of OCSL and the newly formed Community Engagement Program (CEP)['09].

For the 2005-2006 academic year, John was appointed as the first Visiting Faculty Fellow by Massachusetts Campus Compact. In this role he consulted with faculty and administrators at colleges and universities across the state to support the development of Community Service Learning, CEP and civic engagement.

John has worked as a tutor and in a youth and family counseling center, a hotline/crisis counseling center, and a child care referral service. He has been on the board of directors of Habitat for Humanity. My current community involvement is organized mostly through my job-linking community organizations with students and faculty.