Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Expertise

Service programs, service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; program evaluation; evaluation of advocacy programs

Profile

During more than two decades at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Lawrence Bailis has taught courses for MPP students on citizen leadership and service as well as advocacy and community organizationHe has also taught courses for, MBA students and undergraduates, both of which involve partnerships with the community, and a PhD level course on welfare and poverty.

He has conducted research at the Center for Youth and Communities and several other Heller research centers for numerous federal, state, and local agencies, as well as nonprofit organizations and foundations. His current and recently completed research includes evaluations of a federally funded program to create school-community partnerships in the Bronx, several privately funded advocacy efforts to promote increase utilization of free meals for youth in the summer, a Gates foundation-funded efforts to promote acess to higher education, and a corporate effort to promote financial literacy education. He has also served as director of the Eli J Segal Citizen Leadership Program and currently serves as as the Brandeis representative on the Waltham Partnership for Youth, where he is the clerk of the board.

He is also Chair of the boards of directors of the Massachusetts Service Alliance and tan executive committee member of the board of the Jewish Funds for Justice.

Awards and Honors

Member, Visiting Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Mount Ida College (2008)

Named Faculty Fellow to Promote Community Engagement by Massachusetts Campus Compact (2007)

Member, Service Learning Leaders Circle (2006)

Named John Glenn Fellow for Study of University-Community Relationships (2004)

Voted one of the three most influential researchers in service-learning field (with Alan Melchior) (2004)

Courses Taught

HRNS/HS	232a	Team Consulting Project Workshop
HS	217f	Eli J. Segal Seminar in Citizen Leadership and Service
HS	273f	Policy, Advocacy and Community Organization
HS	342b	Policy, Advocacy and Community Organizations
HS	801g	Proseminar

Scholarship

Bailis, Lawrence N and Maggi Gaines. ""Faith-based Service Learning-Status and Prospects"." Growing to Greatness: The State of Service-Learning Project (expected to be published 2013) (2013). (forthcoming)

Bailis, Lawrence N and Susan Shevitz. "Turning Up the Volume: A Call for More Youth Voice in Jewish Service-Learning." Journal of Jewish Communal Service 87. Winter/spring 2012 (2012): 173-180.

Bailis, Lawrence N and Kate McPherson. "Progress Monitoring, Assessment, and Evaluation." Learn, Serve, Succeed: Tools and Techniques for Youth Service-Learning.. Ed. Kate McPherson. Minneapolis: Search Institute, 2011

Bailis, Lawrence N and Susan Shevitz. ""Using Theory of Change as the Framework for an Evaluation"." Torah at the Center Winter 2009 (2009).

Bailis, Lawrence N and Tony Ganger. ""A Framework for Future Research: The Community Impacts of Service Learning"." Growing to Greatness 2006: The State of Service Learning Project (2006).

Bailis, Lawrence N (co-author). "Promoting (and Maintaining) Civic Partnerships: A Conceptual History, Framework, and a Call to Action." Network (2004).

Bailis, Lawrence N (co-author). "Practical Issues in the Conduct of Large-Scale Multi-Site Research and Evaluation." Studying Service-Learning: Innovations in Education Research Methodology. Ed. Shelley Billig and Alan Waterman. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

Bailis, Lawrence N. "Overview of What is Known about the Scope of Community-Based Service Learning in the United States." Generator: The Journal of Service-Learning and Youth Leadership 21. 3 (2003).

Bailis, Lawrence N (co-author). "The Impact of Service-Learning on Civic Attitudes and Beahviors of MIddle and High School Youth." Service-Learning: The Essence of the Pedagogy. Ed. Andrew Furco and Shelley Billig. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2002

Bailis, Lawrence N. "The National Society for Experiential Education in Service-Learning." New Directions in Higher Education 114, Summer 2001 (2001).

Bailis, Lawrence N. ""Coordination among Administrative Agencies"." Welfare System Reform: Coordinating Federal, State, and Local Public Assistance Programs. Ed. Edward Jennings and Neal Zank. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1987

Bailis, Lawrence N, co-author. Medicaid Eligibility: Problems and Solutions. Boulder CO:Westview Press, 1979.

Bailis, Lawrence N. Bread or Justice: Grassroots Organizing in the Welfare Rights Movement Lexington. MA: Heath/Lexington Books, 1974.