HAMMOND – Purdue University Calumet associate professor of history Wendy St. Jean has been selected a 2012-13 Indiana Campus Compact Senior Faculty Fellow.

St. Jean, of Hammond, is part of a class of faculty recognized for demonstrating that service-learning and community engagement effectively can integrate faculty teaching, research and professional service.

“I am engaged in two projects,” she said. “One is a group project with the other Fellows. We are writing a guide book to explain how non-profit organizations can partner with universities for service learning projects. The other project is the development of a service learning/public history course for my students that will run in the spring and focus on the history of the Underground Railroad. Students will be assisting the Levi Coffin Association to raise funds for a visitor’s center at the Levi Coffin home by helping development a membership newsletter.”

The Levi Coffin home is in Fountain City, Indiana, and Levi and Catherine Coffin helped more than 2,000 slaves reach safety through the Underground Railroad.