Elizabeth B. Bolton
Professor
of Community Development
Department
of Family, Youth and Community Sciences
College
of Agriculture and Life Sciences
University
of Florida
E-mail:
ebbolton@ufl.edu
Phone:
(352) 392-1987 ext. 254
Elizabeth Bolton has a Ph.D. from Florida State University in Design and Management of Post Secondary Education (with a minor in instructional design and personnel development). She received a M.A. from the University of South Florida in Adult Education and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Florida.
Dr. Bolton teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in nonprofit management in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences and was instrumental in the development of Organizational Leadership in Nonprofits, the interdisciplinary minor at the University of Florida. She developed the courses for the graduate minor in nonprofit organizations (UF Nonprofit Website) and continues to expand the courses offered with the expectation of offering a certificate to both UF students and external clientele.
In addition to her teaching assignment, she has an appointment in Cooperative Extension and works with county extension faculty in the development and delivery of programs in entrepreneurship education, leadership development, job preparation and volunteer management.
Funded projects include work with the Florida Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials and the Florida Department of Labor (currently known as the Agency for Workforce Innovation). She has worked with county extension offices through out Florida and has written Extension publications and refereed articles.
She is the founder and former president of the Association of Leadership Educators, a nonprofit membership organization focused on leadership education for professional educators
MARC T. SMITH
Associate
Professor, School of Building Construction, and Associate
Director, Shimberg Center for Affordable Housing
University
of Florida
E-mail:
mtsmith@ufl.edu
Phone:
(352) 273-1155
Marc Smith received his Master of City Planning degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1976 and his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University in 1984. He has taught at Temple University and Kansas State University in addition to the University of Florida, and has also worked in state and local government.. Courses taught have included real estate principles, real estate development, construction finance, housing policy, introduction to planning, nonprofit case studies, and community development.
Funded projects have included a Community Outreach Partnership Center funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, a university-community partnership project funded by the Fannie Mae Foundation, a series of contracts with the Florida Department of Community Affairs and Florida Housing Finance Corporation for affordable housing needs assessment, a series of studies of housing prices and housing demand for the Florida Real Estate Commission Education and Research Foundation, and market studies for Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation and Local Initiatives Support Corporation funded organizations in Florida.
Publications have included over 40 articles and book chapters and a number of project reports on housing prices, impacts of regulation on housing markets, housing policy including the Low Income Housing Tax Credits program, office markets, and housing needs estimation.
