Institutional and public policies about work;
poverty problems and solutions, education policy;
(other) contemporary social problems; ethics; service-learning;
social and political philosophy
Institutional and public policies about work;
poverty problems and solutions; education policy; innovative interdisciplinary pedagogy; incorporating service-learning into academic curricula; social and political philosophy
Incorporating service learning into academic curricula; interdisciplinary pedagogy; education policy
Carolyn Magid is interested in using ethical theory to support and evaluate potential solutions to current social problems. She has developed courses in which students explore ethical theory and specific social problems (about work, poverty, education, race and gender, among others) with a goal of developing and defending their own solutions and evaluating those of others. A founding member of the Bentley Service-Learning Project, she has developed service-learning courses and has presented, written, and consulted on service-learning. Before Bentley, she taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Rutgers University, and Wellesley College. She was also a Fellow of The Bunting Institute (Radcliffe/Harvard). She has been and continues to be involved in the community as a volunteer and activist. In 2003, she received the Mack I. Davis Award for Extraordinary Service to the Cambridge Public Schools for creating and participating in a project working with high school students on the college process.