John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts
Dr. John Saltmarsh is the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston as well as a faculty member in the Higher Education Administration Doctorial Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development. He is the author, with Edward Zlotkowski, of Higher Education and Democracy: Essays on Service-Learning and Civic Engagement (Temple 2011). He is also the author of numerous book chapters and articles on civic engagement, service-learning, and experiential education, and the co-author of the Democratic Engagement White Paper (NERCHE, 2009) as well as co-editor of the forthcoming book "To Serve a Larger Purpose:" Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education (2011).

He serves as past chair and current member of the board of the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE), as a member of the Board of The Democracy Imperative, as well as on the editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Community Service-Learning, the editorial board of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, and on the board of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU) Core Commitments Project. He is a member of the National Review Board for the Scholarship of Engagement, has served as a National Scholar with Imagining America's Tenure Team Initiative, and as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Carnegie Foundation's Community Engagement Classification. From 1998 through 2005, he directed the national Project on Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact. He holds a Ph.D. in American History from Boston University and taught for over a decade at Northeastern University and as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Feinstein Institute for Public Service at Providence College.