Because of the innovative nature of this project, and our desire to disseminate this model to appropriate audiences to improve community-based scholarship for undergraduates, we are dedicated to careful evaluation of program processes and outcomes. We are fortunate to have the following colleagues to assist us as we streamline and implement our formative and summative evaluation plans:

• Dr. Alan Peterfreund serves as the external reviewer of this project. Dr. Peterfreund’s key responsibilities include reviewing the goals and objectives of the project timeline and evaluation strategy, coordinating the development of a comprehensive evaluation plan, collaborating with the internal evaluation team to develop, analyze and report evaluation activities, visiting Duke twice a year, contributing to annual reports and other publications, and participating in monthly conference calls with the principal investigators and other members of the project team. Dr. Peterfreund is an experienced education evaluator and organizational consultant based in Amherst, Massachusetts who has supported numerous FIPSE, NSF and NIH education reform projects in the sciences and humanities at the University of Massachusetts, partner campuses in the Northeast, and at San Francisco State University.
  
  
• Dr. Matt Serra, Director of the Office of Assessment at Duke’s Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, serves as our lead internal evaluator on the project. Dr. Serra’s key responsibilities for the project include working with Dr. Peterfreund to develop the comprehensive evaluation plan, collecting and analyzing data at Duke, supporting the production of annual reports, providing regular updates to the project team, and committing the time, staff and logistical support necessary to complete a successful evaluation plan over the next three years.

Many individuals at Duke outside of the regular program staff have already been helpful with project evaluation, including: Peter Lange, Provost; Robert Thompson, Dean of Trinity College; Bill Chafe, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Mary Nijhout, Dean and Director of Undergraduate Research; Michael Munger, Professor and chair of the Department of Political Science; Bruce Jentleson, Professor and chair of the Department of Public Policy; and a focus group of a dozen undergraduates.