I am currently a Research Professor in the Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning and the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. Also I am Executive Director of the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities and a Visiting Scholar at Albion College.

Education

University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. in City Planning

University of Pennsylvania, Master of City Planning

State University of New York, Master of Landscape Architecture

Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Science in Landscape Architecture

Pennsylvania State University, French Minor

Prior Professional Experience

Visiting Scholar, Department of Education, Brown University

Associate Research Professor, Department of Urban + Environmental Policy + Planning, Tufts University

Director of Programs and Research, Talloires Network of Engaged Universities, Tufts University

Visiting Scholar, College of Education and Human Developent, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Associate Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)

Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, M.I.T.

Director and Founder, M.I.T.@Lawrence Partnership

Lecturer, Saint Joseph's University

Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania

Awards

Presidents’ Community Partnership Award, Massachusetts Campus Compact

Excellence in Advising Award, M.I.T.

Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, M.I.T.

President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, Corporation for National and Community Service

Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, New England Resource Center for Higher Education

News

Talloires Network of Engaged Universities Celebrates its 15th Anniversary.

2020, University Award for Innovative Civic Engagement

Hoyt, L. (2018). "Reflections on Advancing University Civic Engagement Internationally." Higher Education Exchange.

Hoyt, L. (2018). "Emancipating Minds and Practicing Freedom: A Call to Action." Metropolitan Universities Journal.

Hoyt, L. et al. (2017). Social Responsibility and Human Dignity in Higher Education Engagement.

Watch the Youth Economic Participation Initiative Feature Film (2017).

Hoyt, L. et al., (2017). “University Entrepreneurship Education for Individual and Community Transformation.” Toronto: Mastercard Foundation, 1-28.

Hoyt, L. (editor). 2017. Regional Perspectives on Learning by Doing: Stories from Engaged Universities Around the World, Lansing: Michigan State University Press.

Vuong, T., Newcomb Rowe, A., Hoyt, L. and C. Carrier (2017). “Faculty Perspectives on Rewards and Incentives for Community-Engaged Work: A Multinational Exploratory Study.” Gateways: International Journal of Community Research. 

Hoyt, L. and A. Newcomb Rowe. (2017). “National, Regional and Global Networks for University Civic Engagement.” The Cambridge Handbook of Service Learning and Community Engagement, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

Hoyt, L. et al., 2016. Emprendizaje: Higher Education for Entrepreneurship, Learning and Collective Intelligence in Southern Chile. Also available in Spanish.

An instructive story: Rebuilding Community after Katrina: Transformative Education in the New Orleans Planning Initiative by Reardon and Forester.

Rewarding Academics for Civic Engagement Gains Ground, in University World News.

Hoyt, L. 2014. "University Civic Engagement: A Global Perspective," Higher Education Exchange.

Watch "Stories of University Civic Engagement from Around the World," several short stories by graduate students who took Anchor Institutions and Community Revitalization.

Hoyt, L. et al. 2015. "Leaders in the Civic Engagement Movement." Interviews with 61 leaders from 26 universities in 17 countries.

Hoyt, L. (editor). 2013. Transforming Cities and Minds through the Scholarship of Engagement: Economy, Equity, and Environment, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.