About
David teaches courses on nonviolence, community, identity and diversity, intergroup relations and intergroup dialogue, education, and the American Jewish Community. He taught for many years in the Sociology Department as Adjunct Associate Professor, and more recently in the Judaic Studies Department before teaching in the Residential College.
David has served in the past as LSA Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and UM Assistant Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs. David served as Founding Academic Director of the Michigan Community Scholars Program (MCSP) from 1999-2019 and was a Co-Founder of the Program on Intergroup Relations. He has led workshops and consulted widely at colleges and universities across the country on topics such as intergroup dialogue, learning communities. and engaged learning.
David is author/editor of eleven books. David's most recent book is Teaching the Whole Student: Engaged Learning with Heart, Mind, and Spirit. He also edited with Sylvia Hurtado, Intergroup Dialogue: Deliberative Democray in School, College, Community, and Workplace, is the editor of Inside Separate Worlds: Life Stories of Blacks, Jews, and Latinos, and co-editor of Multicultural Teaching in the University. His other books include the four books in the College Knowledge series, including College Knowledge: 101 Tips, College Knowledge for the Jewish Student, College Knowledge for the Student Athlete, and College Knowledge for the Community College Student. He is also a co-editor of Engaging the Whole of Service-Learning, Diversity, and and Learning Communities, and Students Talk About College. He is author of Ethnic Survival in America: An Ethnography of a Jewish Afternoon School.
