Patti H. Clayton, Ph.D., is an independent consultant and scholar (PHC Ventures: www.curricularengagement.com). She serves as a Senior Scholar with the Center for Service and Learning at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), a Visiting Fellow with the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE), and a Visiting Scholar with the Office of Research and Economic Development at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She has served as a consultant with over 50 schools, universities, and higher education organizations and is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Learning in Higher Education and the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

Patti has over ten years of experience as a practitioner-scholar in community-engaged teaching and learning, including teaching with service-learning in a variety of fields, leading a multi-faceted scholarship agenda, supporting institutionalization efforts and Carnegie Community Engagement application processes, guiding discipline-based and multi-disciplinary faculty learning communities, and facilitating engaged graduate and undergraduate education initiatives as well as a range of intra- and inter-institutional collaborations. Her work focuses on building the capacity of individuals, units, institutions, and the field as a whole for scholarly community-engaged teaching and learning.

Patti co-developed with students and faculty a leading critical reflection and assessment model (the DEAL Model for Critical Reflection), models for partnerships and for student leadership in service-learning, and a variety of faculty development and curriculum development processes. Most recently, her work has appeared in International Service Learning: Conceptual Frameworks and Research (Bringle, Hatcher, & Jones, eds., 2010) and Participatory Partnerships for Social Action and Research (Harter, Hamel-Lambert, & Millesen, eds., 2010). Co-author of Learning through Critical Reflection: A Tutorial for Students in Service-Learning and an accompanying Instructor Version, she serves as co-editor of the forthcoming book Service Learning Research: Conceptual Frameworks and Assessment. Her research interests include the processes and outcomes associated with capacity building and mutual transformation among all partners in community engagement as co-educators, co-learners, and co-generators of knowledge.