College of Saint Benedict /
Saint John’s University

St. Cloud, Minnesota

Dr. ted gordon

Dr. Ted Gordon is a cultural anthropologist at the College of St. Benedict/St. John's University where he serves as Director of the Initiative for Native Nations Revitalization and as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Integrations Program. He regularly teaching in the Honors Program and Sociology Department. In 2021, Twin Cities Business Magazine recognized Dr. Gordon as a Notable Leader in Higher Education for his work on Native American boarding school truth and reconciliation. In 2020, Campus Compact awarded him the Presidents' Civic Engagement Leadership Award. His work with the Bonner Foundation began in Fall 2019, when he first served as Bonner Faculty Fellow for Community Engaged Learning. Dr. Gordon is the author of Cahuilla Nation Activism and the Tribal Casino Movement (University of Nevada Press 2018). He earned his PhD from the University of California, Riverside.

Faculty Fellow Role

As faculty fellow, Dr. Gordon will continue co-organizing and leading the Community Engaged Learning faculty cohort. Drawing on experience from the previous two academic years, he will guide the faculty cohort through the development of new courses, or revision of existing courses, to incorporate community engaged learning in ways that serve the needs identified by community partners while providing students with high impact practices. Dr. Gordon will co-lead this year's cohort in developing procedures for assessing student achievement high impact practices and learning goals in CEL courses. 

This Academic Year, Dr. Gordon's role as Bonner faculty fellow will also include participating in the Pathways project committee to document student engaged in CEL high impact practices across the curriculum. In serving on this committee, Dr. Gordon will bring his experience in CSB/SJU's Honors program and facilitating previous CEL faculty cohorts to help track the number of students enrolled in courses that use CEL and the types of high impact practices they engage in.