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January 28, 2004

WOOSTER, Ohio - Edward Zlotkowski, senior associate with the American Association for Higher Education and professor of English at Bentley College, will present "Civic Engagement and Liberal Education" on Thursday, Feb. 12, at The College of Wooster. The free public lecture begins at 11 a.m. in Lean Lecture Room of Wishart Hall (303 E. University St.).

Zlotkowski's lecture, which is sponsored by the Lilly Project for the Exploration of Vocation, will focus on how the liberal arts prepare students to engage their community and their world.

Zlotkowski, who is also a Senior Faculty Fellow at Campus Compact and a senior associate at the Policy Center for the First Year of College, founded the Bentley Service-Learning Project in 1990. The institution-wide program involves more than a quarter of its full-time faculty and several thousand students. He has published and spoken extensively on a wide range of service-learning topics, and regularly uses a service-learning approach in his own teaching. His books include Successful Service-Learning Programs: New Models of Excellence in Higher Education (1997) and Service-Learning and the First-Year Experience: Preparing Students for Personal Success and Civic Responsibility (2002). Since 1997, he has served as general editor of the American Association for Higher Education's series on service learning and academic disciplines/disciplinary areas, which currently numbers 20 volumes. He has also provided consulting services to colleges, universities, associations, and foundations across the country.

For additional information about Zlotkowski's lecture, phone 330-263-2428.