Community-Engaged Learning — with Timothy Eatman and Mohamed Farge

Timothy K. Eatman, Ph.D., an educational sociologist and publicly engaged scholar, serves as the inaugural dean of the Honors Living Learning Community (HLLC) and Associate Professor in the department of Urban Education at Rutgers University - Newark. Prior to this his primary network of operation and leadership for over a decade was with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) serving as Director of Research (2004 – 2012) and Faculty Co-Director (2012 to 2017). Tim's national association leadership continues as one of three national co-chairs of the Urban Research Action Network (URBAN) and as board vice chair (chair elect) of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) which awarded him the 2010 Early Career Research Award. A widely sought-after speaker, workshop facilitator, and collaborator who has earned local, national and international recognition for his leadership in advancing understandings about the multi-faceted impact of publicly engaged scholarship in the university of the 21st century. This year he was recognized by the University of Illinois College of Education with its 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award.Mohamed Farge is a scholar in the Honors Living-Learning Community and an undergraduate student at Rutgers University-Newark, pursuing a major in Finance with a minor in Social Justice. He has been working alongside HLLC Dean Timothy Eatman as the Dean's Intern since September 2019. Since June 2020, he holds the position of Global Markets Sales and Trading Intern at RBC.