Elaine Dabelko is the Associate Vice President of Special Projects at Hocking College, a technical college located in the Appalachian region of Ohio. Elaine has been a two-year college educator for thirty years. She has received Hocking¹s President¹s Award for administrative leadership and has been designated a Hocking College Scholar. She previously was a faculty member and director of Hocking¹s General Studies Department and continues to teach part-time. Her current responsibilities include development of cross-curricular projects, such as Service-Learning, distance-learning, and internationalizing the curriculum and core competencies.

Elaine's involvement in the Service-Learning movement includes the founding of the Hocking Outreach Program Experience (HOPE). Originally funded by the American Association of Community Colleges, the mission of HOPE is to provide institutional, community and regional support for the integration of Service-Learning into the two-year college curriculum and to collaborate with the local community to address unmet needs within southeastern Ohio. For the past year, she has served as a national mentor for Campus Compact¹s National Center for Community College¹s (CCNCCC) Service-Learning project, From the Margin to the Mainstream, for the upper Midwest. She is looking forward to collaborating with Ohio University in CCNCCC¹s newest Service-Learning project, 2 + 4. Phone: 740-753-3591 x:2272 Email: dabelko_e@hocking.edu