About
Service-Learning Program Coordinator
Beginning in fall of 2025, Dr. Cameron Ferguson serves as our part-time Service-Learning Program Coordinator for a two-year appointment. Service-learning is a pedagogy that employs community service to improve students' understanding of course content and to meet important needs in local communities. This role will strengthen the presence of service-learning for the college by organizing, coordinating, and overseeing the activities and support of service-learning opportunities for programs and students, Because of its strong academic emphasis on community engagement and service, this role supports Carroll’s emerging Laudato Si’ initiative, our campus-wide commitment to heed Pope Francis’s call to “care for our common home.” This was also a highly recommended initiative through the Strategic Plan. Through the Common Ground initiative, Carroll will design a new model of environmental education and care for creation inspired by Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato Si’ and his 2023 apostolic exhortation Laudate Deum. Drawing on our Catholic mission, liberal arts tradition, and Montana setting, Carroll is uniquely placed to answer this call.
Cameron has already played a central role in this work, serving on the Laudato Si’ working group and helping develop a proposed minor in sustainability. He is building community partnerships, developing new service-learning courses, and supporting the Sed Vitae Core Curriculum requirement, which integrates academic learning with real-world experiences. His leadership will help re-establish service-learning as a hallmark of a Carroll education and strengthen student engagement with the broader community.
Cameron holds a Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Since first arriving at Carroll in 2021, he has contributed as an Area Coordinator in Residential Life and as a faculty member in Theology. Though initially new to Student Life, Cameron has extensive experience in higher education, both as a faculty member and as an administrator. He has held a wide range of teaching posts related to New Testament studies; he is trained as a writing instructor (having served as a Writing Specialist at the University of Chicago's Writing Center); he ran the University of Chicago Divinity School's Craft of Teaching Program (designed to facilitate dialogue around best teaching practices in the academic study of religion); and he has held multiple student-leadership positions, including as the University of Chicago Divinity Students Association (DSA) president.