Iain Crawford Curriculum Vitae [email protected] 330-201-1772

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Education

Ph.D. University of Leicester, 1982. Dissertation: “Victorian Theme and Convention in the Novels of Charles Dickens.” Director: Professor Philip Collins

B.A. University of Leeds, 1975. English and Greek Civilization. 1st Class Honors

Positions Held

University of , 2010- • Faculty Director of Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning, 2014- • Interim Chair, Department of English, 2011-12 • Associate Professor of English, 2010-

Senior Fellow, American Association of Colleges and Universities, 2009-10

Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of English, The College of Wooster, 2003-09 Chief Academic Officer. Chief academic officer, responsible for coordinating the academic program, including faculty appointments, curriculum development, department and program budgets, and academic support services. In addition, oversaw operational areas, including student life, admissions, financial aid, and athletics. Responsible for 1860 students, 34 departments and programs, 160 FTE faculty, 125 salaried staff, 100 hourly staff, and budget of $32 million

Dean, School of Liberal Arts, and Professor of English, University of Southern Indiana, 2000-03. Led School of 8 departments with 24 major programs, 98 full-time and 115 part-time faculty, 2050 undergraduate majors, and $7.5 million annual budget. Supervised: Associate Dean; Department Chairs (8); Director of Center for Communal Studies; Director of Humanities Program; Director of New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art; Lincoln Amphitheatre; New Harmony Theatre; Ropewalk Writers Retreat; Society for Arts and Humanities; Southern Indiana Review; USI Theatre

Chair and Professor of English, Bridgewater State College, MA, 1995-2000. Led department with 40 full and part-time faculty, 320 undergraduate majors, 75 graduate students, and budget of $800,000

Assistant/Associate Professor of English, Berry College, GA, 1985-95. Coordinator (1994-95) for department of 12 full-time faculty and 75 majors

Visiting Assistant Professor, The , 1984-85

Instructor/Assistant Professor, Pedagoški fakultet, University of Osijek, Croatia, 1979-84

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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Leicester, 1977-79

ESL Instructor, The Finnish-British Society, Varkaus, Finland, 1975-76

Representative Leadership Accomplishments

University of Delaware Faculty Director, Office of Undergraduate Research and Experiential Learning • Led growth of summer research program by 30+%, including reorganized application process and expansion of summer research celebration • Initiated and taught introduction to research course • Initiated spring campus celebration of undergraduate research and creative activity • Supported arts and humanities faculty in development of course-based research • Developed graduate student training in research-based teaching Co-Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Strategic Planning Committee: • Consulted with campus constituencies to develop comprehensive planning document Co-Chair, University Strategic Planning Committee, Working Group on Models of Academic Organization Chair, Department of Mathematics Strategic Hiring Committee: • Facilitated development of strategic hiring plan for department Interim Chair, Department of English • Guided department through transitional period and national search for new chair • Facilitated hiring and mentoring of new faculty • Increased outreach to alumni • Developed alumni/public community outreach events

The College of Wooster Faculty Work, Evaluation, and Compensation: • Oversaw faculty workload modification, resulting in reduction of load from 6 to 5.5 courses per year and increased consistency of load across campus • Restructured faculty salaries by increasing entry level salaries to match market rates and then implementing equity initiative to address compression and inversion • Redesigned process for annual merit review to provide formal, specific feedback to each member of the faculty • Initiated task force to redesign compensation, support and evaluation of department chairs • Initiated institutional membership in COACHE project to improve quality of life for pre- tenure faculty members • Initiated task force to review quality of life issues for faculty and staff Curriculum Development: • Collaborated with Dean of the Faculty and faculty colleagues to develop new summer programs in China and Tuscany • Collaborated with Dean of the Faculty to incorporate learning outcomes assessment into department and program review cycle • Collaborated with Department of Education and Educational Policy Committee on Ohio Department of Education and NCATE reviews and on developing resources to support teacher preparation programs • Hired first Director of Writing trained in composition studies Outcomes Assessment: • Coordinated and created support for assessment, including the appointment of a first Director of Educational Assessment and resulting in the emergence of a comprehensive campus culture of learning outcomes assessment Crawford 3

• Developed grant-funded multi-institutional projects on assessment in a research-intensive liberal arts curriculum Enrollment Management: • Led reorganization of enrollment management through hiring new aid packaging and admissions consultants, implementing new Admissions software, overhauling Admissions operations, securing Board support for creation of new vice presidential position, and chairing search for new VP of Enrollment • Established early intervention program to provide increased support for at-risk students and contribute to improved retention rates • Collaborated with Dean of the Faculty and Dean of Students to develop Center for Academic Advising Diversity: • Led campus task force on diversity, resulting in improved Admissions outcomes in student recruiting, active institutional membership in the Consortium for Faculty Diversity, membership of the POSSE program, and increased success in faculty hiring for diversity Information Resources and Technology: • Led campus task force on the future of the libraries, resulting in a new vision of the College libraries in the twenty-first century. Chaired search for a new Director of Libraries • Collaborated with new Director of Libraries to develop vision for Learning Commons • Collaborated with CFO to begin implementation of ERP project and with CFO and Chief Information Technology Officer to ensure successful implementation of Datatel modules in Admissions, Financial Aid, and Student Records Athletics: • Led self-study of Athletics program, reviewing structure of coaching positions, organization of team sports, and relationship between athletics and the academic programs Strategic Organization: • Worked with Board leadership and campus community to re-engineer institutional administrative organization and prepare for fundamental restructuring of Academic Affairs division and related governance issues

University of Southern Indiana Faculty Work, Evaluation, and Compensation: • Developed teacher-scholar model for faculty, with increased recognition of faculty engagement in scholarship • Initiated revision of School faculty evaluation procedures to reflect evolving expectations for faculty • Provided new faculty development structures to support faculty scholarship: Faculty Mentoring Program; Liberal Arts Research Awards; Liberal Arts Faculty Colloquium series; Faculty Writing Group • Revised salary structure to address issues of inequity, gender discrepancy, and compression and established new guidelines for salary by rank and seniority Curriculum Development: • Promoted curricular development, leading to new programs in: Master of Public Administration; International Studies; Gender Studies; Classical Studies; Anthropology; and Criminal Justice • Developed teaching support structures: School Undergraduate Research Committee; School Service-Learning Committee; School Distance Education Plan; English Department Portfolio Awards • Supported Department of Communication through accreditation by ACEJMC • Collaborated with School of Education on NCATE reaccreditation and other support of teacher preparation programs Crawford 4

• Coordinated university-wide initiative to develop writing in the disciplines • Hired first Director of Writing trained in composition studies Enrollment Management: • Enhanced recruiting profile for School by developing new web presence, creating Admissions brochure, and creating newsletter for alumni and external constituencies Strategic Organization: • Initiated review of School governance structure

Bridgewater State College Curriculum Development: • Led development of department’s first strategic plan, coordinated with school and college-level plans • Initiated first external reviews of departmental curricula, leading to improvements in the development of the writing programs and overhaul of undergraduate and graduate degree programs • Initiated new faculty positions focused upon writing, leading to the development of increased strength in rhetoric and composition, technical, and creative writing • Collaborated with School of Education on NCATE reaccreditation and other support of teacher preparation programs Enrollment Management: • Collaborated with college administration and local community colleges to improve curriculum coordination and facilitate entry and success of transfer students • Oversaw growth in number of undergraduate majors from 210 to 320 Information Resources and Technology: • Expanded departmental commitment to technology through support of computer and web-based writing initiatives and facilities

Berry College • Organized and oversaw Summer Study in London program • Developed Semester Abroad program in England • Chaired Faculty Council and provided faculty leadership during Board initiative to discontinue the position of department head • Served as Coordinator of Department of English, 1994-95

Grants and Alumni and Donor Development

Grants

Developing Research and Research-based Teaching through Collaboration with the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, , 2013. A $4000 grant for workshops to promote graduate student development of research-intensive teaching.

General University Research grant. A $6000 research grant for a project on the relationship between Charles Dickens and Harriet Martineau. University of Delaware, 2012.

The Senior Capstone: Transformative Experiences in the Liberal Arts. A $284,960 three-and-a- half year grant to assess universal capstone experiences at four liberal arts colleges. Project initiator and development leader. The Teagle Foundation, 2009. Principle Investigator

"Capstone Research Experiences in the Liberal Arts: An Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes." A $15,000 planning grant for a project to develop a multi-year project on the Crawford 5

assessment of universal required senior capstone experiences at Allegheny College, Augustana College, Washington College, and The College of Wooster. The Teagle Foundation, 2008. Author

Faculty Expansion. A four-year $800,000 project to support an expansion of the faculty in order to enhance undergraduate research and increase campus diversity. The Mellon Foundation, 2007. Member of project development team

Undergraduate Science Education. A four-year $1.0 million curricular, undergraduate research, and diversity project. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, 2007. Member of project development team

Collegiate Entrepreneurship. $1.56 million. A five-year curricular and undergraduate research project. Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Burton D. Morgan Foundation, 2006. Member of project development team

“Creativity and Critical Thinking: Assessing the Foundations of a Liberal Arts Education.” $297,353. A consortial project with the Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc. The Teagle Foundation, 2006. Principal Investigator

“Value-added Assessment: a Consortial Project with the Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc.” $25,000 planning grant. The Teagle Foundation, 2005. Principal Investigator

“Social Entrepreneurship.” $228,000. A three-year curricular and undergraduate research project. Burton D. Morgan Foundation, 2005. Member of project development team

“Environmental Analysis and Action.” $270,000. A three-year curricular and undergraduate research project. Henry Luce Foundation, 2005. Member of project development team

Undergraduate Science Education. $800,000. A four-year curricular, undergraduate research, and outreach project. Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant, 2004. Co-chair project development team

“Lincoln Boyhood Drama Association.” $5,312. The Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana, 2002. Author

"Writing-Across-the-Curriculum in the Massachusetts State Colleges.” $215,000. Massachusetts Board of Higher Education, 1999. Co-author

Development, Donor and Alumni Activities • “Celebrating Mr. Dickens.” Saturday Symposium to mark the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens. University of Delaware, February 2013. • “A Christmas Carol.” Alumni and community readings with Richard Figge. Cleveland and Wooster, December 2006; and Chicago, December 2007; Wooster, June 2008; Baltimore and New York, December 2008 • “Undergraduate Education in Different Eras.” Class of 1960 Reunion Committee. Wooster. June 2008 • Donor cultivation: $150,000 gift for research internship in the Department of History. Fall 2006 • “Lifelong Learning for Alumni.” Class of 1958 Reunion Committee. November 2006 • “A Christmas Carol.” Alumni reading. Boston. December 2005 • “Wooster Today.” Class of 1959 Reunion Committee. Wooster. October 2005 • “The Novels of Dickens: Victorian England’s First Reality Show.” Alumni talk. Chautauqua, NY. September 2005 Crawford 6

• Donor cultivation: $200,000 gift for curricular innovation. Spring 2005 • “Academic Life at Wooster Today.” Four alumni lunch talks. Florida. February 2005 • “Wooster Today.” Class of 1956 Reunion Committee. Wooster. November 2004 • “Wooster Today.” Class of 1934 lunch. Wooster. June 2004 • “Wooster Today.” Class of 1958 Reunion Committee. Wooster. October 2004 • “Wooster’s Evolving Curriculum.” Alumni reception. Nashville, TN. February 2004 • Private and corporate donor fundraising, New Harmony Theatre, Lincoln Amphitheatre, University of Southern Indiana Theatre. 2000-03 • Private and corporate donor fundraising, Evansville Philharmonic and Lincoln Amphitheatre. 2002-03 • Private and corporate donor fundraising, USI / Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region III competition. 2001-2

Grant Reviewing • FIPSE Comprehensive Program • FIPSE Congressional Priorities Program • NEH Publications Subventions Program • US Department of Education Teacher Quality Enhancement Program

Professional Training and Development • Wye Institute Seminar for Chief Academic Officers, 2008 • CIC Presidential Vocation and Institutional Mission Seminar. 2006-07 • Harvard Graduate School of Education, Institute for Educational Management. 2004 • CCAS Workshop for New Deans. 2000 • CASE Workshop for Deans. 2000 • NERCHE Department Chairs Think Tank. 1996-2000 • ADE Summer Seminars for Chairs of English. 1995-1999

Representative Professional Service and Activity

Service to Other Universities • Consultant on undergraduate research: , Carroll College, St. Norbert College, University of Louisiana system, California University of , Lawrence University • Program reviewer, Department of English, Eastern Connecticut State University • Consultant on faculty evaluation, Mount Union College • Workshop on careers in English Studies, University of Delaware • Ph.D. examiner, Andhra University, India • Program reviewer, Department of English, Pine • Promotion and tenure reviewer, —Johnstown

Scholarly Journals and Presses • American and British Book Review Editor, South Atlantic Review, 1994-2000 • Associate Editor, The Mid-Atlantic Almanack • Editorial Board, South Atlantic Review • Manuscript reviewer, Press, University of Alabama Press, Ashgate Publishing

Professional Organizations • President, Dickens Society, 2015-17 • Council on Undergraduate Research, Task Force on Assessment, 2014- • Peer Reviewer, Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 2014- • Treasurer, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, 2013- Crawford 7

• Chair, Arts and Humanities Division, Council on Undergraduate Research, 2011-13 • Peer Review, Western Association of Schools and Colleges, 2009-11 • Chair, Academic Committee, The Five Colleges of Ohio, 2008-9 • Chair, Deans’ Council, Great Lakes Colleges Association, 2008-9 • Councilor, At-large Division, Council on Undergraduate Research, 2007-8; Arts and Humanities Division, 2008- • Peer Reviewer, the Higher Learning Commission, North Central Association: PEAQ and AQIP programs, 2000-09 • Great Lakes Colleges Association, chair, review of Philadelphia Center Program, 2006 • Five Colleges of Ohio, Inc., co-coordinator, Library Storage Facility review, 2006 • Invited speaker: “Lost, or found, in Translation? Faculty Work, Faculty Lives, and Study Abroad.” GLCA Symposium. St. Olaf College, April 2005 • Trustee, The Dickens Society of America • Invited speaker, “Addressing Faculty Turnover,” New England Resource Center for Higher Education • Workshop Leader, Seminar for New Chairs, ADE Summer Seminars for Chairs of English: 2001, 2002, 2004 • Comprehensive Universities Committee, Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, 2002- 03

Scholarship

Books and Chapters

“Harriet Martineau: Women and the World of Journalism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain.” In Journalism and the Periodical Press in Nineteenth Century Britain. Ed. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge UP. In press.

“Harriet Martineau: Travel and the Writer.” In Harriet Martineau and the Birth of Disciplines. Eds. Valerie Sanders and Gaby Weiner. Farnborough: Ashgate P. In press.

“Massachusetts and America: Dickens, Martineau, and the Republic They Came to See.” In Dickens and Massachusetts: The Lasting Legacy of the Commonwealth Visits. Eds. Diana C.Archibald and Joel J. Brattin. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 2015.

How to Get a Tenure-Track Job at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution, 2nd edition. With Michelle Bushey, Deborah Lycan, Patricia Videtich. Council for Undergraduate Research. 2015.

How to Get Started in Arts and Humanities Research with Undergraduates. Edited with Sara Orel and Jenny Shanahan. Council for Undergraduate Research, 2014.

“‘Hunted and Harried by Pseudo-Philanthropists’: Dickens, Martineau, and Household Words.” In Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press 1850-1870. Eds. Ben Winyard and Hazel McKenzie. Buckingham: U of Buckingham P, 2013.

“Undergraduate Research in the Fine Arts at The College of Wooster.” With Shirley Huston- Findley, Peter Mowrey, Kitty McManus Zurko. In Undergraduate Research in the Arts and Humanities. Eds. Jenny Shanahan, Naomi Yavneh, and Greg Young. Washington, D.C. The Council on Undergraduate Research: 2011.

“‘Casting aside that fictitious self’: Chopin’s The Awakening and Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop.” Teaching English for Life. Osijek, Croatia: Josip Juray Strossmayer University, 2003: 411- 17. Crawford 8

“Oliver Twist’s Chronological Structure.” Readings on Oliver Twist. Ed. Jill Karson. San Diego: Greenhaven P, 2001: 42-52. Rpt. from “Time and Structure in Oliver Twist.” The Dickensian 77 (1981): 23-31.

Martha Berry's Library: A Descriptive Catalog of the Books Owned by Martha Berry and Her Family. (With Joanna Grant). Berry College, 1994. 340 pp.

“Sex and Seriousness in David Copperfield.” Major Literary Characters: David Copperfield. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1992: 159-72. Rpt. from The Journal of Narrative Technique 16:1 (1986): 41-54.

A Social and Cultural History of Britain 1688-1980. (With Sonia Wild-Bićanić). Zagreb, Yugoslavia: Liber University Press, 1982. ix + 254 pp.

Articles

“Harriet Martineau, Charles Dickens, and the Rise of the Victorian Woman of Letters.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 68:4 (2014): 449-83.

“Faithful Sympathy”: Dickens, the Edinburgh Review, and Editing Household Words. Victorian Periodicals Review 44:1 (2011): 42-68.

“Increasing the Validity of Outcomes Assessment.” With Kathleen Langan Pusecker, Manuel Roberto Torres, Delphis Levia, Donald Lehman, Gordana Copic. Peer Review 13:4 (2011): 27-30.

"Undergraduate Research as Faculty Development: The College of Wooster Experience." With Shila Garg, John Neuhoff. CUR Quarterly. 29:1 (Spring 2008): 14-17.

“Department Chairs, Faculty Evaluation, and the Evolution of Departments of English.” ADE Bulletin 137 (Spring 2005): 34-38.

“Encouraging Faculty Participation in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.” With Charles F. Harrington, Chuck Price, Scott Gordon, Julia Galbus. Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Conference for Academic Chairpersons: The Changing Role of Department Chairs. 2002: 65-81.

“Dickens in the Whaling City.” Dickens Quarterly 18 (2001): 173-85.

“‘You Want to Be a What?’ Transitioning from Chair to Dean.” ADE Bulletin 128 (Spring 2001): 66-70.

“Art Garfunkel.” The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Ed. Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne. Bowling Green, OH: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001.

“Dickens, Classical Myth, and the Representation of Social Order in Barnaby Rudge.” The Dickensian 93 (1997): 185-97.

“Reading TV: Intertextuality in Northern Exposure.” The Mid-Atlantic Almanack 3 (1994): 14-22.

“Popular Culture and Intertextuality in Larry McMurtry's The Last Picture Show.” Journal of Popular Culture 27:2 (1993): 31-42.

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“‘Nature . . . drenched in Blood’: Barnaby Rudge and Wordsworth's ‘The Idiot Boy.’” Dickens Quarterly 8 (1991): 38-47.

“‘Machinery in Motion’: Time in Little Dorrit.” The Dickensian 84 (1988): 30-41.

“Wading Through Slaughter: John Hampden, Thomas Gray, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.” Studies in the Novel 20 (1988): 249-61.

“Pip and the Monster: The Joys of Bondage.” Studies in English Literature: 1500-1900 28 (1988): 624-48.

“‘Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere’: Gray's Elegy, Theme, and Intertextuality in Great Expectations.” Dickens Quarterly 4 (1987): 195-99.

“‘Shades of the Prison-House’: Religious Romanticism in Oliver Twist.” Dickens Quarterly 4 (1987): 78-90.

“Evaluating Composition.” Yugoslav English Language Teaching Review 4 (1983): 7-9.

Representative Recent Papers & Presentations

“‘Yield to the mighty mind of the Popular Instructor’” Dickens, America, and the Press. Dickens Universe, UC Santa Cruz. Invited plenary. August 2015.

“‘One of the greatest women that our generation has seen.’ Harriet Martineau, the Obituary, and the Transatlantic Press.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Ghent, Belgium. July 2015.

“Harriet Martineau: Taxonomy and the Woman Travel Writer.” NAVSA. London, Canada. November 2014.

“In this Place: Dickens, Delaware Irish Nationalists, Daniel O’Connell and the Transatlantic Press.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Wilmington, DE. September 2014.

“Lost in Translation” Martineau, Thackeray, and the New Monthly Magazines. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Manchester, UK. July 2013.

“Critical and Creative Thinking: Accreditation and Institutional Change.” New England Association of Schools and Colleges. Boston. December 2012.

“Writing against Type: Household Words and the Unsentimental, Anti-Sensational Journalism of Harriet Martineau.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Austin, September 2012.

“A giraffe . . . forced into a flower-pot”: Dickens and Martineau on America. 16.5 Annual International Dickens Society Symposium. Lowell, July 2012.

“‘Hunted and Harried by Pseudo-Philanthropists’: Dickens, Martineau, and Household Words.” Philip Collins Memorial Lecture. Dickens Journals Online Conference. Buckingham, UK. March 2012.

“Popular Sentiment and Parables of Progress: Dickens and Harriet Martineau Revisited.” Victorian Futures. Santa Cruz, July 2011.

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“Never done: Dickens, Martineau, and Women’s Work in the Victorian Press.” Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. Canterbury, July 2011.

“‘In his peculiar artistic light’: Dickens, Martineau, and Representing American Nature.” INCS. Pitzer College, March 2011.

”Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking in Student Learning.” “The Creative Campus.” A meeting sponsored by The Mellon Foundation. New York, NY. 2008.

“The Senior Capstone: Undergraduate Research and Student Learning.” (With Jeff Abernathy, Lori Bettison-Varga, Shila Garg) American Association of Colleges and Universities Annual Conference. New Orleans, 2007.

“Supporting and Valuing Undergraduate Research: The Role of the Chief Academic Officer.” (With Jeff Abernathy) Council of Independent Colleges 34th National Institute for Chief Academic Officers. St. Petersburg, 2006.

Teaching Lower division: Upper division/graduate: Baseball and the American Experience Arthurian literature Basic writing Contemporary British fiction British literature surveys Dickens English as a Second Language Dickens, Martineau & the First-year Writing Victorian Press Introduction to literature and film Victorian Literature

Plays Produced (University of Southern Indiana)

New Harmony Theatre (LOA to LORT D, Equity summer theatre) Pump Boys and Dinettes Anna Christie Private Lives Sleuth Twelfth Night Godspell The Foreigner A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine Eccentricities of a Nightingale

Lincoln Amphitheatre (Outdoor professional summer drama) Young Abe Lincoln The Sound of Music Civil Suite A Midsummer Night’s Dream Fiddler on the Roof

University of Southern Indiana Theatre Sexual Perversity in Chicago Oedipus the King In the Boom Boom Room American Dreams The Odd Couple Tartuffe The Sea Plays Extremities You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Memberships

Council on Undergraduate Research Dickens Society of America Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Crawford 11

Candidate Statement

Over the past twenty years, all of us involved in undergraduate research (UR) have seen it expand enormously, growing into new disciplines, being integrated with curricula, and becoming recognized as one of the very best high-impact teaching and learning practices. From its beginnings in the natural sciences, UR has branched out into every field, expanded from its first home in primarily undergraduate teaching institutions and become embedded not only throughout four-year colleges and universities but, increasingly, as part of two-year college and high school teaching. A distinctively American creation, it is now also recognized more and more internationally both for its intrinsic qualities and also for the ways in which it embodies the values of liberal learning that continue to make this country’s higher education system among the most fertile and creative in the world.

Over these years, CUR itself has grown and developed in concert with this evolution. We have continued to add divisions, membership has grown dramatically, and our members have come from an increasingly wider range of colleges and universities. More and more, those members join us not as individuals but as part of their institutions, which see the value of their entire campus becoming engaged in

UR and with our organization. And CUR itself has evolved: still essentially driven by the passion and commitment of its members, it has also needed to create ways to focus our energy and give a voice to UR at a time when higher education is subject to the polarization that bedevils our national political life and when UR must compete with other best practices for ever diminishing resources. Crawford 12

As we become a larger and more complex entity, the strategic plan that the

Eboard adopted in January feels, then, absolutely vital to our future. Built around the five strategic pillars that define areas where we can continue to grow and areas where we simply must do more – most notably, in diversity and inclusion – the plan pushes us to focus our time, energy, and resources. We depend upon a combination of volunteer work from our members and the dedication of a terrific, but very small staff in the National Office; the strategic plan will help us both to keep in sight the grassroots commitment that is the heart of CUR and also to resist the centripetal forces to which we know we can be vulnerable.

In the next few years, then, I see CUR’s external priority as concentrating upon building its profile in higher education, achieving greater recognition as the go-to representative of UR -- CUR, not AAC&U or ACE, must become the national voice for undergraduate research’s importance in higher education – and advocating for funding to support UR across the curriculum. Internally, I envision two great opportunities. First, to find ways to engage our rapidly expanding and diversifying membership so that we sustain our sense that all of us are a vital part of CUR.

Second, to develop ways to use assessment of UR so that we can continue to enrich our own work as teachers and mentors and so that we have ways to tell our story to stakeholders ranging from students and families going through the process of choosing a college to funders whose support we seek.

Undergraduate research and CUR have been a huge part of my professional life for many years. I’ve served CUR in a variety of capacities: as a Councilor; as Chair of the Division of Arts and Humanities and member of Eboard; as co-founder of the Crawford 13

Institute on Creative Inquiry in the Arts and Humanities; as chair of the search committee for the editor of CUR Quarterly; and on other committees and taskforces.

In 2013 I co-edited How to Get Started in Arts and Humanities Research with

Undergraduates and this past year I was one of the co-authors on a second edition of

How to Get a Tenure-Track Job at a Predominantly Undergraduate Institution. In

2013, I was moved and honored when I was named CUR Volunteer of the Year.

So, what calls me to this position? And why now? When I was asked if I were willing to be nominated, I thought back over what higher education has given me over the thirty-plus years I’ve lived in the U.S. My path has been an unusual one, to be sure: I arrived here in 1984 for a visiting position at the University of Alabama and then went on to work at two public comprehensives and two liberal arts colleges. After fifteen years as what a friend once ruefully called “an upwardly mobile administrator,” serving as chair, dean, and then chief academic officer, I came back to the faculty at my current home, the University of Delaware. I feel blessed to have been a part of so much of American higher education, to have had opportunities ranging from taking on the role of professional theatre producer when I was a dean at the University of Southern Indiana to working in one of the premier undergraduate research programs in the world as the chief academic officer at The College of Wooster. Since coming to Delaware, I’ve been able both to experience the absolute joy of rekindling my own scholarship and teaching and combine that with leading and growing an undergraduate research program that’s been vital part of this campus for more than three decades. My deepest commitments are, I know, as a member of the faculty, but I also recognize and Crawford 14

deeply appreciate the rich variety of experiences I have had in academic leadership at what, as I think back over it, seems a remarkable range of the kinds of institution that make up higher education. If honored to be elected as our next President, then, my hope would be to give back for all that I have been given and to draw upon my dedication to undergraduate research and experience in academic leadership to help CUR fulfill its growing, increasingly strategic, and absolutely essential mission at a time when education needs its voice more than ever before.