Resource for Community Engagement - Dr. Paul Schadewald

Dr. Paul Schadewald is the Senior Project Manager for Bringing Theory to Practice. For over two decades, he worked in civic engagement at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN, where he infused civic engagement into the curriculum and led faculty development around community and urban engagement.  He is the Vice Chair of the National Advisory Board for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and a Board Member for Project Pericles and is a National Field Leader for the Bonner Network.  He also serves on the Member of Council of Impact Hub, Minneapolis-St. Paul, part of the global impact hub network of social entrepreneurs and socially responsible businesses. The book he co-edited, Digital Community Engagement,  received the book of the year award from the National Council on Public History (2019-2020).   A forthcoming co-edited book on food security and experiential learning in undergraduate education is expected to be published in 2025.  He has also published in the areas of faculty development, civic professionalism, community-based research, and young adult mentoring communities.  He earned his Ph.D. in U.S. History from Indiana University, Bloomington, and a B.A. in History from St. Olaf College. Dr. Schadewald led a Faculty Forum conversation on April 4, 2024 where faculty learned how Maryville College is already connected to the Paradigm Project as part of the Emerging Models Community of Practice and about opportunities to be involved.

BT2P - Bringing Theory to Practice

Bringing Theory to Practice is a national initiative, launched in 2003, to advance the core purposes of college: holistic learning, preparation for meaningful work and democratic citizenship, contribution to community wellbeing, and the flourishing of the whole person. Offering all students such transformative education, we believe, requires transformative change in higher education.