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Boyd RossingProfessor Room 107, Human Ecology Bldg. (608) 262-5930; 262-2660 |
Professor Boyd Rossing received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Georgia-Athens. He holds appointments with the School of Human Ecology, the Graduate Program in Continuing and Vocational Education, and is an Affiliate faculty member of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning-Community Development Planning. He also holds a University of Wisconsin-Extention integrated as a Community Development Specialist, in the Cooperative Extension Division, Family Living Education Program Area.
His research and scholarship focus on community leadership capacity building, citizenship, and leadership through reflective experiences in community action and non-formal community leadership education. He provides Extension outreach education, consultation, and facilitation to county faculty and to citizen groups in areas pertaining to community building, community collaboration, and community leadership development. He has also engaged in national and international projects on community and leadership development.
Professor Rossing currently chairs a cross program area team that is developing short and long term strategies and training programs to build capacity of Cooperative Extension educators to play constructive roles in local conflicts. He also is directing a project, through the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Human Ecology, to engage, network, and empower African American families in the neighborhoods of South Madison so that family perspectives are incorporated in larger community building efforts in the area through a university-community partnership approach.
Courses taught by Professor Rossing include:
Inter-HE 360 Leadership Dynamics in Community Building
Inter-HE 705 Community Building, Action, and Learning
