• Skip to content
  • Skip to footer
  • Accessibility options
University of Brighton
  • About us
  • Business and
    employers
  • Alumni and
    supporters
  • For
    students
  • For
    staff
  • Accessibility
    options
Open menu
Home
Home
  • Close
  • Study here
    • Get to know us
    • Why choose Brighton?
    • Explore our prospectus
    • Chat to our students
    • Ask us a question
    • Meet us
    • Open days and visits
    • Virtual tours
    • Applicant days
    • Meet us in your country
    • Campuses
    • Our campuses
    • Our city
    • Accommodation options
    • Our halls
    • Helping you find a home
    • What you can study
    • Find a course
    • Full A-Z course list
    • Explore our subjects
    • Our academic departments
    • How to apply
    • Undergraduate application process
    • Postgraduate application process
    • International student application process
    • Apprenticeships
    • Transfer from another university
    • International students
    • Clearing
    • Funding your time at uni
    • Fees and financial support
    • What's included in your fees
    • Brighton Boost – extra financial help
    • Advice and guidance
    • Advice for students
    • Guide for offer holders
    • Advice for parents and carers
    • Advice for schools and colleges
    • Supporting you
    • Your academic experience
    • Your wellbeing
    • Your career and employability
  • Research
    • Research and knowledge exchange
    • Research and knowledge exchange organisation
    • The Global Challenges
    • Centres of Research Excellence (COREs)
    • Research Excellence Groups (REGs)
    • Our research database
    • Information for business
    • Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP)
    • Postgraduate research degrees
    • PhD research disciplines and programmes
    • PhD funding opportunities and studentships
    • How to apply for your PhD
    • Research environment
    • Investing in research careers
    • Strategic plan
    • Research concordat
    • News, events, publications and films
    • Featured research and knowledge exchange projects
    • Research and knowledge exchange news
    • Inaugural lectures
    • Research and knowledge exchange publications and films
    • Academic staff search
  • About us
  • Business and employers
  • Alumni, supporters and giving
  • Current students
  • Staff
  • Accessibility
Search our site
Image of checkland building falmer campus
About us
  • About us
  • Your university
  • Governance and structure
  • Working with us
  • Statistics and legal
  • News and events
  • Contact us
  • News and events
  • News
  • 2017
  • Welcome to our new Fulbright-Schuman Scholar

Welcome to our new Fulbright-Schuman Scholar

The University of Brighton has welcomed Professor Seth Pollack from California as its new Fulbright-Schuman Scholar.

19 September 2017

Professor Pollack is Professor of Service Learning and the founding faculty director of the Service Learning Institute at California State University, Monterey Bay.

 His interests focus on higher education in social change and community building, particularly as it relates to addressing issues of economic inequality and community disenfranchisement. He is a strong proponent of the power of service-based and research-based community-university partnerships to help universities become more connected to the needs and aspirations of their diverse communities.

Professor Pollack developed his interest in community-university partnership after a decade working in grassroots rural development in West Africa, South Asia and Central America. He ultimately returned to higher education and received his PhD in International Development Education and his MA in Organisational Sociology from Stanford University.

He was honoured with the Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service Learning, recognised as the USA’s outstanding faculty in the field of community service and civic engagement. His interests in higher education’s role in social change brought him to Cape Town, South Africa, as a Fulbright Scholar. He worked there to help post-apartheid South African higher education institutions create more community-connected academic programs.

Professor Seth Pollack

Professor Seth Pollack

Fulbright Schuman logo

At the University of Brighton he is working to strengthen its service learning and the Community Partnership Programme (CUPP), particularly with regard to issues of migration, economic recovery and multicultural community-building.

Professor Debra Humphris, the University’s Vice-Chancellor, said: “We are delighted and honoured Professor Pollack is joining us. His expertise dovetails with work continuing at this university, particularly through CUPP, our award-winning programme which has supported scores of partnership projects over the past 12 years.

“Each year hundreds of academics, students and community partners work together to produce benefits for the community whilst enriching teaching and research. CUPP now supports other universities in the UK and across the world to develop similar initiatives in their own contexts.

“I’m sure the University community will join with me in welcoming Professor Pollack and making him feel at home.”

 

 

Back to top
  • Facebook
  • X logo
  • Instagram
  • TikTok
  • YouTube
  • LinkedIn icon

Contact us

University of Brighton
Mithras House
Lewes Road
Brighton
BN2 4AT

Main switchboard 01273 600900

Course enquiries

Sign up for updates

University contacts

Report a problem with this page

Quick links Quick links

  • Courses
  • Open days
  • Explore our prospectus
  • Academic departments
  • Academic staff
  • Professional services departments
  • Jobs
  • Privacy and cookie policy
  • Accessibility statement
  • Libraries
  • Term dates
  • Maps
  • Graduation
  • Site information
  • Online shop
  • The Student Contract

Information for Information for

  • Current students
  • International students
  • Media/press
  • Careers advisers/teachers
  • Parents/carers
  • Business/employers
  • Alumni/supporters
  • Suppliers
  • Local residents