Faculty

Current Position

Interim Executive Director, Senior Fellow and Executive Editor, Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU)

Assistant Professor, Institute of Clinical & Community Health, College of Nursing, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU)

Principal, Holton Consulting, LLC

Academic Degrees

 

Ph.D. in Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Master of Social Work, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Concentration: Clinical Social Work Practice.

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

 

 

Experience

2008             Fulbright Senior Scholar, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University

2012-2017    Director of Community-Engaged Research (founding), Division of Community Engagement

2012             Community-Engaged Research Associate, Division of Community Engagement

 
Specialty

●Community Work, Social Policy

● Institutional strategy 

● Partnership development

● Communications and storytelling 

● Assessment and continuous improvement
● Network and capacity building 

● Team and employee development
● Mission-aligned resource deployment

● Program and operational design

IHP Thesis Advisee
Selected Publications

 

 

 

• Holton, V., Gogia, L. & McKenzie, T. (2018). Collaborative Curiosity: A Connected Learning Course on Community-Engaged Research. Public, 4(2). 
• Holton, V., Early, J.L., Resler, M., Trussell, A., & Howard, C. (2016). The University next door: Developing a centralized unit that strategically cultivates community engagement at an urban university. Metropolitan Universities Journal, 27 (1). https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/article/view/21120/20525
• Holton, V. (2015). To what end?: Assessing engagement with our communities. Metropolitan Universities Journal, 26 (2). https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/issue/view/1211
• Holton, V., Jettner, J. F., Early, J. L., & Shaw, K. K. (2015). Leveraging existing resources to develop university community engagement data systems. Metropolitan Universities Journal, 26 (2). https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/issue/view/1211
• Holton, V., Early, J. L., Jettner, J. F., & Shaw, K. K. (2015). Measuring community-university partnerships across a complex research university: Lessons and findings from a pilot enterprise data collection mechanism. Metropolitan Universities Journal, 26 (2). https://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/muj/issue/view/1211
• Leisey, M., Holton, V., Davey, T. (2012). Community-engagement grants: Assessing the impact of university funding and engagement.  Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship, 5(2), 41-47. https://jces.ua.edu/articles/10.54656/PXQT3609]