David M. Scobey has been named as the director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and as the Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Community Partnerships at Bates College, announced Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty Jill Reich. Scobey comes to Bates from the University of Michigan, where he is associate professor of architecture in the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and director of the Arts of Citizenship program.

"His intellectual gifts, academic accomplishments and prominence in community-based learning will enable Bates to build a center of community partnerships with both deep local significance and a national reputation of the first rank," Reich said. She praised the "energy, imagination, intelligence and experience" that Scobey will bring to the position. Faculty, staff, students and community members who met Scobey during his recent visits to Bates and Lewiston-Auburn are convinced, Reich says, that "he will contribute to our educational work both inside and outside the curriculum, forge new connections with local and global communities and enhance the intersection between academic and residential life at the college."

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