Jon Van Til

JON VAN TIL is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University, Camden.  His twelve books include 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).

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, 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 continues this work at present.  He has just finished as term as President of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter of the Fulbright Association. Van Til was Anna Deane Carlson Distinguished Visiting Chair in Social Science at West Virginia University from 2003-2005.  His biography is included in the 2006 edition of WHO’S WHO IN AMERICA.

Awards:

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.

Fulbright scholar to Northern Ireland, 2004.

Fulbright Specialist, 2006 (Northern Ireland) and 2010-2011 (Hungary).