Jane E. Turk

Jane E. Turk, EdD, serves as Associate Director in the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers. Her work at AAC&U focuses primarily on the Conference on Global Learning, the Institute on Experiential Learning and Engaged Dialogue (IELED), designing and managing digital engagement platforms, and contributing to research and partnership initiatives based in the Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers.  

Prior to joining the staff of AAC&U in 2022, Turk's work focused on designing and facilitating educational and faculty development on topics including scaling high-impact practices across disciplines and programs; designing community-engaged courses; assessing integrative and experiential learning; teaching with technology to enhance student learning and engagement; transparent assignment and syllabus design; and engaged dialogue design and facilitation. Turk previously served as Director of Member Engagement at Minnesota Campus Compact, and as Educational Development Coordinator,  Director of the Liberal Education as Practice (LEAP) graduation requirement, Director of the Common Read program, and Civic Engagement and Service-Learning Coordinator at Hamline University. She has held teaching positions at Hunter College of the City University of New York (CUNY), Marymount Manhattan College, Lake Forest College, DePaul University, Normandale Community College, and Hamline University, teaching courses focused primarily on media and cultural studies, critical media literacy, journalism, and the history of media institutions and media regulation in the United States.  

Turk earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communication & Media Studies and Humanities & Cultural Studies from Macalester College, a Master of Philosophy and a Master of Arts in Communications from Columbia University in the City of New York, and a Doctorate in Education from Hamline University. Her dissertation research explored faculty narratives about teaching and learning with popular media in undergraduate liberal education programs at four-year colleges and universities in Minnesota.