Dr. Van Til is Professor Emeritus of Urban Studies and Community Planning at Rutgers University, Camden.
Van Til received a BA (High Honors; Phi Beta Kappa) from Swarthmore College in Political Science in 1961 and an MA in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1963.
(Robert Blauner, advisor) His recent writings on social movements in Hungary are reported in two co-edited books and in contributed articles in the Huffington Post.
Van Til divides his time between homes in Seelyville, Indiana and Budapest.
He is married to Agnes Kover, the Hungarian human rights lawyer and sociologist.
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, New Jersey).
Van Til has also served as a Trustee of the George H. Gallup International Institute.
In 1991 he was recognized as "Creative Teacher of the Year" at Rutgers for developing his campus' program in Citizenship and Service Education.
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.
He continues at that university at present, serving as visiting senior scholar and an active pracademic in the Budapest community.
He also serves as senior visiting scholar at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Van Til also served as President of the Philadelphia/Delaware Valley Chapter of the Fulbright Association, and as Anna Deane Carlson Distinguished Visiting Chair in Social Science at West Virginia University from 2003 to 2005.
Growing Civil Society (2008, 2000), Mapping the Third Sector: Voluntarism in a Changing Social Economy; (1988), and Living With Energy Shortfall (1982).
co-edited with Robert Herman (Transaction Press, 1988) Shifting the Debate: Public/Private Sector Relations in the Modern Welfare State.
International Perspectives on Voluntary Action Research, co-edited with David Horton Smith.
“Grassroots Social Movements and the Shaping of History”, with Gabor Hegyesi and Jennifer Eschweiler.
23 in Ram Cnaan and Carl Milofsky, eds., Handbook of Community Movements and Local Organizations.