Muhlenberg Welcomes New Director, Assistant Director Of Community Service
Muhlenberg College is pleased to announce the appointment of Beth Halpern as the new Director of Community Service and Civic Engagement and Kate Cartwright as Assistant Director of Community Service and Civic Engagement.Thursday, June 21, 2007 01:59 PM
Halpern is a graduate of Lawrence University in Wisconsin. She received her master's degree in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University, where she was a graduate teaching assistant and worked in the Office of International Education.
She has been involved with several programs that the College is already involved with including: Best Buddies International, OxFam America, America Reads, Relay for Life, Special Olympics, the American Cancer Society and Habitat for Humanity. She has worked as a VISTA Community Programs Advisor at Dartmouth College and was a graduate intern at the University of California Santa Cruz. She has performed international service learning research, facilitated advocacy courses for students and community members and was an instructor for a course titled "Leadership in Community Service."
Cartwright is a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne College, a Lutheran-affiliated institution in Hickory, N.C. She received her master's in English from Lehigh University. She has been an adjunct lecturer, teaching fellow and writing center tutor at Lehigh and spent the past year as an instructor of English at Northampton Community College.
In 2005-06, Cartwright served as legal coordinator and Border Servant Corps Volunteer for the Justice for Women and Children's Project in El Paso, Texas. The Border Servant Corps is an AmeriCorps partner. She also spent a summer working for Equal Justice USA at the Quixote Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. In addition, she has worked on social justice projects with non-profit organizations in Bolivia, Chile, Ireland, Mexico, Spain and Washington, D.C.
