Character Compass

Scott Seider is an assistant professor of education at Boston University, where his research focuses on the civic and character development of adolescents and emerging adults. He is a former secondary teacher in the Westwood (Massachusetts) and Boston Public Schools. Dr. Seider is the author of Shelter: Where Harvard Meets the Homeless (Continuum, 2010), which won the American Educational Research Association’s Moral Development and Education Outstanding Book Award, and coeditor of The Engaged Campus: Certificates, Minors, and Majors as the New Community Engagement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He also writes the “Civic Engagement on Campus” column for the Journal of College and Character.