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School of Social Work
105 Peters Hall
1404 Gortner Avenue
Saint Paul, MN 55108
Voice: 612-625-1220

Ross VeLure Roholt

VeLure Roholt

Assistant Professor

Office Hours:
Wednesdays, 12:00-1:00pm

Areas of Interest

Deepening and enriching understanding about youth work practice and practice education, Evaluation studies, Participatory models of youth work and youth development, Youth Work in Contested Spaces

Ross VeLure Roholt has been full time, tenure track faculty in the School of Social Work, College of Education and Human Development, since January 2007.  He teaches primarily in the Youth Studies program. His research interest include: deepening and enriching understanding about youth work practice and practice education, evaluation studies, and participatory models of youth work and youth development. He has extensive international consultation experience and has designed training curriculum on civic youth work for programs in Morocco, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Israel, Korea, Laos, Netherlands, and has recently been invited to keynote for the Croatian Youth Network in March 2012 on civic youth work and models of US youth work.

School of Social Work

Rm 105 PetersH
1404 Gortner Ave
St Paul, MN 55108

Tel: 612-625-1220


Degrees

Ph.D., University of Minnesota,
M.S.W., University of Minnesota

Publications

  1. VeLure Roholt, R. & Baizerman, M. (Eds.) (2012). Special Section for Evaluation and Program Planning, entitled: Evaluation in Contested Spaces, 35(1), 139-218.

  2. VeLure Roholt, R. (2009). Developing Civic Youth Work in Morocco: A Training for Trainers. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Human Rights and Democracy Institute.

  3. VeLure Roholt, R., VeLure Roholt, C., Pettis, S. & Smyth, P. (2008).  Citizens Now: A guidebook for building more democratic communities with young people.  Belfast, Northern Ireland: Public Achievement Northern Ireland. http://www.publicachievement.com

  4. VeLure Roholt, R. & Smyth, P. (2007).  Democratic civic youthwork and implications for service-learning: Lessons from Northern Ireland.  Book Chapter in L. McIlrath & I. MacLabhrainn(Eds.) Higher education and civic engagement: International perspectives.  London: Open University Press.

  5. VeLure Roholt, R.; Hildreth, R.; Baizerman, M. (2007).  Becoming citizen: Deepening the craft of youth civic engagement. Child and Youth Services, 29(3/4), 1-182.

  6. Mattessich, P., Hendricks, S., VeLure Roholt, R. (2007) Using evaluation for results: The executive's guide to using evaluation data for fundraising, staffing, marketing, advocacy, impact, and more. St. Paul, MN: Fieldstone Alliance Publishing. http://www.fieldstonealliance.org/

  7. VeLure Roholt, R. (2005). Democratic Civic Practice: A training curriculum for teachers and youthworkers. Belfast, Northern Ireland: Public Achievement (funded by United States Institute of Peace). http://www.publicachievement.com

  8. VeLure Roholt, R. & Steiner, M.A. (2005).  An unexpected resource: Evaluating the youth science center at the science museum of Minnesota.  Museum Curator, 48(2), pg. 141-157.

  9. VeLure Roholt, R. & Sheetal, R. (in press) Improving community-based youth work: Evaluation of an action research approach.  Child and Youth Services.

  10. VeLure Roholt, R. & Fisher, C. (accepted for publication). Expect the unexpected: International short-term study course pedagogies and practices.  Journal of Social Work Education.

  11. VeLure Roholt, R. (2010).  Youth civic engagement: Developing a political self.  In J. Cheon & &Y. Lee (Eds.) Youth development and civic engagement, 145-160.  HWB Publishing: Seoul, Korea.

  12. VeLure Roholt, R. & Cutler, J. (2011).  Youth work as engagement.  In D. Fusco, Advancing youth work: Current trends, critical questions, 173-180.  New York: Routledge.

  13. VeLure Roholt, R. & Baizerman, M. (2011).  Preparing the next generation of professoriate in youth studies: Mapping the contested spaces.  In D. Fusco, Advancing youth work: Current trends, critical questions, 127-140.  New York: Routledge.

Presentations

  1. Baizerman, M. & VeLure Roholt, R. Creating a youth development strategic plan.  Lao Youth Union, Vientiane, Laos.  July 2010.  Invited Consultation and Training.

  2. VeLure Roholt, R. & Whitt, J. Young people and healthy relationship development: Philosophies and strategies.  Minnesota Social Service Association Conference, Minneapolis, MN.  March 2010.  Training.

  3. VeLure Roholt, R. Conducting Evaluation in Contested Spaces: Describing and Understanding Evaluation Under These Conditions.  American Evaluation Association Conference,Orlando, FL. November 2009. Panel Chair.

  4. VeLure Roholt, R. Youth Civic Engagement: Effects, Benefits, Outcomes.  Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea.  June 2009.  Invited Keynote Presentation for the 1st International Seminar at Chung-Ang University.

  5. VeLure Roholt, R. Youth Civic Engagement: The Making of the Political Self.  2nd Biennial World Conference, Lawrence, KS.  July 2008, Paper Presentation.