Karabi Bezboruah
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Karabi Bezboruah teaches courses in nonprofit management, program evaluation, public administration, and strategic planning in the Public Affairs department in the College of Architecture, Planning and Public Affairs. Her research interests are in organizational behavior, cross-sector collaborations, public and nonprofit sector resource development and capacity building, microfinance, and international non-governmental organizational impact. Her expertise is in studying organizational sustainability through capacity building, collaborations, and networks. She has published articles on the behavior of nonprofit organizations, state-NGO relations, and impact of NGO offered microcredit on women in developing countries. Further, she has authored a book on corporate giving, and a book chapter on leadership in nonprofit organizations. In 2008, she received the Emerging Scholar of the Year award from the premier professional organization on nonprofit sector research, the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. Dr. Bezboruah is a Faculty Fellow in the LINK Research Lab and implements projects on effective online learning environments for both instructors and students. In 2014-15, her Professional Learning Communities (PLC) project was on Building Communities of Online Graduate Students where she examines Discussion Boards as a medium for engaging collaborative work. In 2015-16, her PLC project is on application of synchronous and asynchronous instruction in online graduate programs. She also incorporates service-learning pedagogy in her teaching, and is a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Service Learning at UT Arlington. |