Omobolade O. Delano-Oriaran

Omobolade Delano-Oriaran earned her undergraduate and Master’s degrees at Savannah State University, Georgia and her Ph.D. at Pennsylvania State University before assuming her current position as Associate Professor of Education and director of the Student Teaching Abroad program at St. Norbert College, De Pere. Wisconsin, USA. Her teaching and research focuses on: diversity and inclusion issues in society; authentic critical culturally engaging service-learning, and pedagogical approaches to multicultural education. Dr. Delano-Oriaran’s work has been published in refereed journals and books, including: Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Journal of Education for Teaching, Sociology of Education: An A-to-Z Guide and Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity. She is the lead editor of The Sage Sourcebook of Service-Learning and Civic Engagement with Marguerite W. Penick-Parks and Suzanne Fondrie. She is the recipient of numerous awards on diversity issues and community change: the Sister Joel Read Civic Engagement Practitioner Award, from the Wisconsin Campus Compact, and St. Norbert College’s “Bishop Morneau Community Service” award, and was recognized as one of the 28 most influential African-Americans in Wisconsin.

Publications

Culturally Engaging Service-Learning With Diverse Communities
Culturally Engaging Service-Learning With Diverse Communities
Omobolade O. Delano-Oriaran, Marguerite W. Penick-Parks, Suzanne Fondrie. © 2018. 359 pages.
Evaluating the experiences of racially marginalized and underrepresented groups is vital to creating equality in society. Such actions have the potential to provoke an interest...