Associate Professor
bailis@brandeis.edu
Heller
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617 868-2468
Expertise
Service-learning and experiential education; university-community partnerships; program evaluation; evaluation of advocacy programs
Courses
- HS 232a - Team Consulting Project Workshop
- HS 243a - MBA Capstone
Scholarship
- 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 Leanring 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.
Profile
During more than two decades at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Lawrence Bailis has 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 research includes evaluations of a national nonprofit organizationi's effort to end childhood hunger in the United States, an effort by a coalition of national and state organizations to promote the civic mission of schools, and a corporate effort to promote financial literacy education.
He also serves as director of the Eli J Segal Citizen Leadership Program and serves as as the Brandeis representative on the Waltham Partnership for Youth.
He is also a leader on the boards of directors of the Massachusetts Service Alliance and the Jewish Funds for Justice.
Degrees
Harvard University
Ph.D.
Harvard University
M.A.
Cornell University
B.A.
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)
