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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 focuses on the social foundations of education, civic and community engagement (three of his works are in the top 20 most-cited documents on service-learning in the last 70 years) and the intersection of technology and pedagogy in higher education. For the last two years he has become obsessed with ChatGPT, passionately arguing for it, then against it, then for it again. He is kind of confused (and exhausted) by it all. 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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