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​About Me
Dan Sarofian-Butin, PhD, is a Full Professor in, and Founding Dean of, the School of Education & Social Policy at Merrimack College. Dr. Sarofian-Butin is the author and editor of 100+ academic publications, including seven books, several of which have been translated into three languages. Dr. Sarofian-Butin has consulted for, among others, the US Department of Education, the National Science Foundation, and the American Association of Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), and for six years in a row (2012-2018), was one of the top 200 “Public Presence” Education Scholars. For close to a decade, he ran the Center for Engaged Democracy, which focused on developing, coordinating, and supporting academic programs – majors, minors and certificates – focused on community engagement, broadly defined. Dr. Sarofian-Butin’s scholarship on service-learning and community engagement is some of the most cited literature in the service -learning field over the last 70 years.

For the last three years he has become obsessed with the impact of AI on teaching and learning in higher education, and has published close to a dozen articles on the “crisis of purpose” in higher education. This past summer he was invited by OpenAI to be part of a faculty roundtable to discuss the future impact of AI on student engagement, motivation, and academic integrity.

Prior to working in higher education, Dr. Sarofian-Butin was a middle school math and science teacher and the chief financial officer of Teach For America. Dr. Sarofian-Butin has a B.S. in Management Science from MIT, an M.A. in Liberal Education from St. John's College, and a Ph.D. in Social Foundations of Education from the University of Virginia.

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