Dan Sarofian-Butin
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Public scholarship is a major component of my academic work. Bridging theory and practice – what is oftentimes referred to as translational research, the scholarship of engagement, or public work – is a critical component of linking academic work and public practice. My public scholarship – which includes blogging and writings in general audience publications – is viewed by 100,000+ readers. I have been interviewed in national and international media outlets such as the Los Angeles Times, the BBC and Forbes magazine and have served on national task forces for MIT, AAC&U, the US Department of Education, NSF, and the Carnegie Corporation. I have been honored five years in a row as one of the top two hundred “Public Edu-Scholars” in Rick Hess’s Influence Rankings. As Hess writes on his EdWeek blog, the list is meant to honor and rank “the 200 university-based education scholars who had the biggest influence on the nation's education discourse last year…[The] rankings reflect, in roughly equal parts, the influence of a scholar's academic scholarship, on the one hand, and their influence on public debate as reflected in old and new media, on the other” and provide a “sense of a scholar's public footprint in the past year.”

Below is a select list of my public scholarship. Please see my CV or my Academia.edu page for all of my public scholarship. You can also go to my "Op-Eds and General Audience Writings" page or my "Speaking & Consulting" page to directly access some of my key writings and talks. 
  • Profiled in: JCC Connexions, the quarterly newsletter of the Journal of College & Character, August 2017.
  • Interviewed by the BBC: "Superstars Plan Next Career With Harvard Course" July 6, 2017.
  • Published an op-ed: "It's Actually Not About the Student" in InsideHigherEd. April 17, 2017.
  • Presented: "The Engaged Campus: Key Models for Powerful Teaching, Learning and Research" Keynote Address at Washburn University, January 30, 2017
  • Published an op-ed: "A Failing Ed System" in Education Week, January 19, 2017.
  • interviewed by the BBC - "Chinese Billionaire Offers Biggest Education Prize." January 18, 2017.
  • Ranked as one of the top 200 education scholars in Rick Hess's 2017 "Edu-Scholar Public Influence Rankings", January 11, 2017
  • Served as an External Reviewer for the MacArthur Fellows Program (“Genius Grants”) of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2016-17
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  • Public Scholarship
    • Op-Eds & General Audience Writing
    • Speaking & Consulting
  • Academic Research
    • Teacher Preparation - Practice & Policy
    • Teaching & Learning (High Impact Practices) in Higher Education - Practice & Policy
    • Service-Learning
    • Academic Programs in Community Engagement
  • Courses
    • Social Foundations of Education
    • Theories of Organizational Change
    • Research Methods
    • Disruption in Higher Education
    • Community Development