Barrera has published scholarly articles on student development through service learning and the development of community-campus partnerships. Before coming to UCLA, he was a program director for the Consensus Organizing Institute in San Diego, and taught community-engaged courses at UC San Diego and the University of San Diego. Prior to working for the Center, Doug was a research analyst with the UCLA Center for Community Partnerships and the Higher Education Research Institute. Doug teaches courses for the Community Engagement & Social Change minor, and is an adjunct instructor for Labor Studies. He serves as the Campus Champion for the center’s Jumpstart program. He also facilitates the center’s Engaged Pedagogy Workshop series and course development for the Chancellor’s Award for Engaged Scholars initiative, and is currently developing a place-based initiative related to youth empowerment in west L.A. He has developed and directs UCLA’s Collaboratory initiative, the Astin Community Engagement Scholars and the Changemaker Scholars programs. He has been involved in community engagement work for over 20 years.Īt the center, Doug works directly with faculty and community partners to develop community-engaged courses for undergraduates. He became an assistant director with the center in 2012. Doug first joined the staff of the Center for Community Learning in 2008, as the coordinator for the Civic Engagement internship course. He holds practitioner certification in conflict mediation and as a conflict resolution educator.ĭouglas Barrera, Associate Director for Faculty and Community Engagement. in Folklore and Folklife from the University of Pennsylvania. Staub received his BA and MA in Anthropology from Wesleyan University, and a Ph.D. Staub’s publications include Yemenis in New York City: The Folklore of Ethnicity Craft and Community: Traditional Arts in Contemporary Society Conference Proceedings: Governor’s Conference on Ethnicity-Exploring the Impact of Pennsylvania’s Cultural Diversity on Public Policy, and numerous articles on Yemeni Jews in Israel, Yemeni Muslims in New York, folk culture and cultural conservation, and civic engagement work in higher education. He had also served as the State Folklorist and later Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Heritage Affairs Commission, a state agency. Prior to his work at Dickinson, Staub was the founding President/CEO of the Institute for Cultural Partnerships, a non-profit organization located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He created Dickinson’s Conflict Resolution Resource Services program, offering conflict coaching, mediation, group facilitation, and conflict skills education to the campus community. ![]() While at Dickinson College, Staub was also a contributing faculty member to the departments of Religion, Sociology, Judaic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies and Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship. ![]() In his 14 years at Dickinson, he collaborated with faculty colleagues to develop a civic learning and community-engagement program that was embedded in the curriculum spanning the arts, humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. ![]() Prior to arriving to Los Angeles, Staub was Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Civic Engagement at Dickinson College. Shalom Staub, Director of UCLA’s Center for Community Learning, joined the Center staff in September 2018. He has been involved in collaborative, community-engaged program development, pedagogy and research over his multi-sector 37 year professional career in state government, the private non-profit sector, and higher education.
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