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Contact Info Rick Porter Rick Porter is a Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Work and Learning. In this role, he contributes to research on a variety of program strategies and their outcomes for students in the emerging field of practice oriented education. Rick is a Professor of Mathematics. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. His mathematical research is in the area of algebraic and differential topology. Rick served as Chair of the Mathematics Department (1993 to 1998), as Acting Vice President for Cooperative Education (1998 to 2001), and then as Vice President and Dean of Cooperative Education (2001 to 2003). In his roles in cooperative education, Rick oversaw the Departments of Cooperative Education, International Cooperative Education and Career Services. In 2003, U.S. News & World Report ranked Northeastern University number one in the country for programs that combine classroom learning with real-world experience. In addition, Northeastern’s Career Services was top ranked by Kaplan/Newsweek’s “Unofficial, Insider’s Guide to the 320 Most Interesting Colleges and Universities,” 2003 edition. Rick Porter has 25 years experience in mathematics research, teaching and writing. He is the author of a graduate text on Fibre Bundles, two college mathematics texts published by DC Health and Company, two HiMap modules published by the Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications, and more than 20 research papers. His research combines geometry, combinatorics, and analysis to obtain algorithms for the integer cohomology of nilmanifolds and invariants of links in 3-space. He has supervised Ph.D. theses in the area of link invariants. Rick has given invited lectures on his research throughout the country and Europe. He has been visiting professor at the Université des Sciences et Techniques de Lille, France and at the University of Sussex England. Rick received the University Excellence in Teaching Award in June of 1990. Professor Porter is currently investigating, through interviews with leading Service-Learning, Internship, and Co-op programs: •
Key outcomes of their program, The results of these interviews will be published to provide practitioners and researchers with an overview of current practices across a range of experiential program types and to encourage thinking and innovation across program types. Rick also serves as Special Assistant on Experiential Education to the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. In this role, he co-organized in the summer of 2004 with Tim Donovan and Dean Jim Stellar a three-day Institute on Experiential Education. The themes of the Institute included sessions on (a) building student leadership, (b) undergraduate/faculty research partnerships, and (c) reflective practices in Service-Learning, Study Abroad, and Co-op. During the Institute, program teams developed initiatives for the coming year in the areas of Cooperative Education, Experiential Components in Existing Courses, Service-Learning, Student Leadership, and Undergraduate Research. Building on the success of this Institute, plans are underway in the summer 2005 to welcome teams from other universities to develop plans to advance experiential education programs at their home institutions. This Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute on Experiential Education is organized by the Center for Experiential Education and Advising in the College of Arts and Sciences with Rick as Institute Director. Rick has given talks
at meetings of the National Commission For Cooperative Education and the
World Association for Cooperative Education. He serves on the organizing
committee for the Third International Conference on Practice-Oriented
Education and also the organizing committee for the 14th World Congress
of the World Association for Cooperative Education. Both conferences will
be held at Northeastern University in June of 2005.
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