Boyd RossingProfessor Emeritus
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Professor Boyd Rossing received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary, M.Ed. and Ed.D. from the University of Georgia-Athens. He held appointments with the School of Human Ecology, the Graduate Program in Continuing and Vocational Education, and was an Affiliate faculty member of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning-Community Development Planning. He also held a University of Wisconsin-Extention appointment integrated as a Community Development Specialist, in the Cooperative Extension Division, Family Living Education Program Area.
His research and scholarship focused on community leadership capacity building, citizenship, and leadership through reflective experiences in community action and non-formal community leadership education. He provided Extension outreach education, consultation, and facilitation to county faculty and to citizen groups in areas pertaining to community building, community collaboration, and community leadership development. He has also engaged in national and international projects on community and leadership development.
Professor Rossing retired in 2008, but continues to direct the Family Voices project, through the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in the School of Human Ecology, to engage, network, and empower African American families in the neighborhoods of South Madison so that family perspectives are incorporated in larger community building efforts in the area through a university-community partnership approach.
