Jon Van Til
Seelyville, IN 47878
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JON VAN TIL is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University, Camden. His fourteen books include THE HUNGARIAN PATIENT (2015), RESOLVING COMMUNITY CONFLICTS AND PROBLEMS (2011), BREACHING DERRY’S WALLS (2008), GROWING CIVIL SOCIETY (2008, 2000), CRITICAL ISSUES IN AMERICAN PHILANTHROPY (1990), MAPPING THE THIRD SECTOR: VOLUNTARISM IN A CHANGING SOCIAL ECONOMY (1988), and LIVING WITH ENERGY SHORTFALL (1982).
His recent writings on social movements in Hungary are reported in two co-edited books and in contributed articles in the Huffington Post. Van Til divides his time between homes in Louisvile, Colorado and Budapest. He is married to Agnes Kover-Van Til, the Hungarian human rights lawyer and sociologist.
Van Til is the past director of the Pennsylvania Law and Justice Institute (1972-1974), and served as Editor-in-Chief of NONPROFIT AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR QUARTERLY (formerly the JOURNAL OF VOLUNTARY ACTION RESEARCH) from 1978 through 1992. He was twice elected President of the Association of Voluntary Action Scholars, and is the founding Board Chair of the Center for Nonprofit Corporations (Trenton). Van Til has also served as a Trustee of the George H. Gallup International Institute.
Among the national clients of Van Til's consulting in the area of voluntary and nonprofit action have been the National Service Secretariat, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Health Visions Inc., the University of Colorado, the University of Pennsylvania, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, and the United Way of Central Indiana.
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Swarthmore College with High Honors in Political Science, Van Til received his doctorate in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1991 he was recognized as "Creative Teacher of the Year" at Rutgers for developing his campus' program in Citizenship and Service Education. In 1994, he received the Career Award for Distinguished Research and Service from the Association for Research in Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
Van Til was named Fulbright Distinguished Professor at the University of Ulster during the Spring term, 2004, serving in the Magee College’s INCORE and Centre for Voluntary Action Studies. In the academic year 2005-6 he served as Fulbright Senior Specialist at INCORE.
Van Til served as Fulbright Specialist to Hungary (ELTE University) for the academic year 2010-2011, and at the Budapest University of Jewish Studies in 2014. He continues at that university at present, serving as visiting senior scholar and an active pracademic in the Budapest community. In the Spring term of 2019, Jon will serve as Fulbright Speciaist at Marmara University in Istanbul.
Van Til also served as President of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter of the Fulbright Association, and as Anna Deane Carlson Distinguished Visiting Chair in Social Science at West Virginia University from 2003-2005. His biography has been available since 2006 in WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA.
Jon serves as Executive Secretary of the Civil Society Design Network, where senior academic scholars and change agents maintain an ongoing dialogue regarding their practice.
Jon's most recent paper explores the scene in Turkey regarding civil society development. It is part of a panel presentation at the ARNOVA conference in San Diegp, November 2019.
He has been asked to write the summary chapter for a symposium on Weaponized Volunteering to be published in CURRENT SOCIOLOGY in 2022.
Jon was awarded the position of Fubright Speciaist at Marmara University in Istanbul for the period 19 March to 29 April, 2019. His tasks included assisting the public administration department in developing its program and curriculum. Read his final report on this Fulbright placement.
Read Jon's presentation to the faculty seminar at the Jewish University of Budapest, delivered on 5 December 2018.
JON VAN TIL was named the 2017 Joe Cresse Ethics in Government Distinguished Lecturer at the Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University. Read a draft of his talk here, or review the slides he used for the talk. This talk was also presented at Grand Valley State University on November 17.
Read Jon's 2017 paper, presented to ARNOVA, November 16.
Read Jon's statement to the open membership meeting of ARNOVA,
Watch an interview with Jon by Pavol Demes in Bratislava:
Jon keynoted the ANZTSR (Australia New Zealand Third Sector Research) conference in Sydney on November 25,2016.
Current writings by Jon Van Til are available on line at academia.edu and ResearchGate.
Jon's columns have often appeared in the Huffington Post.
AWARDS
Fulbright scholar to Northern Ireland, 2004.
Fulbright Specialist, 2006 (Northern Ireland) ,2010-2011,2014 (Hungary), and 2019 (Turkey).
Phi Beta Kappa, 1961
Creative Teacher of the Year, Rutgers University at Camden, 1991.
Outstanding Editor, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 1991.
Career Award for Distinguished Research and Service, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action, 1994.
Who’s Who in America, 2006.
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Jon Van Til
Seelyville, IN 47878
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