Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program
Dan Lamb
Engagement is a three-way win: The students gain experience, the clients gain capacity, and Cornell fulfills its mission of public engagement
About the Fellow
- Lecturer, Cornell Institute for Public Affairs, College of Human Ecology
- Dan Lamb’s faculty profile
Cohort year(s)
- 2018-19, Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning
Topic(s)
- Access, Equity and Justice; Law, Government and Policy
2018-19 Project
A perennial challenge for government and nonprofit organizations is their limited ability to collect data for strategic planning and decision making because of funding and capacity constraints. In Dan Lamb’s graduate course, students hone their skills in project planning, research and analysis as consultants for six local public and nonprofit clients in a variety of political and social environments. Recent activities include quantification of the value of the free health services provided by the Ithaca Health Alliance and a wage and compensation study in collaboration with the Town of Dryden and Linda Barrington, director of the Institute for Compensation Studies, to provide well-researched guidance for local decisions about pay levels.
Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program
A yearlong cohort program in which faculty dive deep into the theory and practice of community-engaged learning and scholarship; meet monthly to discuss readings, and share projects and workshop challenges