Executive Director: Matthew Lindsey
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Matthew Lindsey is the Executive Director of Kansas Campus Compact. He provides strategic direction and support for the organization’s efforts to:
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Assist college and university presidents in promoting civic engagement, service learning, and programs that connect their institutions, faculty, students, and staff with their neighborhoods and communities;
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Improve collaboration and build partnerships at the state level among faculty and presidents of higher education institutions and non-profit organizations;
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Deepen connections between Kansas and other state and national groups committed to building a more service-minded and civically engaged citizenry and bring these groups together to share ideas; and
- Offer resources, ideas, and information to member campuses that will improve the quality of teaching and learning, promote increased civic responsibility, instill in students lifelong values of service to their communities, and stimulate informed debate on the best means to improve the social, political, and economic lives of all Kansans.
He also serves as an adjunct instructor with the Kansas State University School of Leadership Studies.
Matthew is a Kansas native and came to KsCC from Washington, DC where he served as the Senior Associate and chief of staff at Freedman Consulting, LLC, a private political and communications consulting firm that advised elected officials, national non-profit organizations, philanthropies, and private companies on effective strategies for achieving policy change on issues including hunger and poverty, national service, disaster preparedness and response, immigration, economic security, and others. Before his work at Freedman, Matt worked as an associated at the Partnership for Public Service, an organization dedicated to improving the attractiveness of federal public service. He has also worked as a speechwriter and analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Transportation and with the Centre City Development Corporation, in San Diego, CA where he helped build a public-private partnership to create a new strategy for a downtown shuttle transit system. In recognition of the success of that effort, the mayor of San Diego declared August, 25, 2005 as “Matt Lindsey Day.”
Matthew has published research on electricity deregulation and its impact on rural electric cooperatives and their customers as well as written several op-eds that have appeared in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Charlotte Observer and other outlets.
Matthew was selected as a Harry S. Truman Scholar in 2001 while a student at the University of Tulsa where he received a dual Bachelors Degree in Economics and Political Science. He also has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
