Community Partnerships' Summer Course Grants 1996

The Center for Community Partnerships has awarded the following Summer Course Development Grants for 1996. Grants are awarded to proposals demonstrating academic excellence; integration of research, teaching and service; partnership with community groups, schools, service agencies, etc.; and a focus on Philadelphia, especially West Philadelphia. Proposed courses will involve participation or interaction with the community as well as contribute to improving the community.

Dr. James H. Lytle, Educational Leadership Division, Graduate School of Education; Redesigning "Urban Education/Urban Studies 202" to incorporate academic service as well as community study. The redesigned seminar will provide students with an overview of issues in contemporary urban education. As a part of the course's ethnographic component, Penn students shadow West Philadelphia public school students, including University City High School students.

Dr. Rebecca Maynard, Educational Leadership Division, Graduate School of Education; Proposal to redesign the graduate seminar "Education Policy" to assist in the evaluation and development of the West Philadelphia Partnership's school-to-work initiatives in conjunction with the West Philadelphia schools.

Dr. Antonio McDaniel, Department of Sociology; Proposal to create a new undergraduate seminar on "Racial Identity in Philadelphia" which will examine the impact of high school, family, and neighborhood context on racial socialization; the course will work with West Philadelphia and University City High School students.

Dr. Michael Reisch, School of Social Work; Proposal to develop a new graduate seminar that will "Educate Students for Community Action Through Action Research" and will work with West Philadelphia schools and their communities.

Dr. Daniel Romer, Annenberg Public Policy Center; Proposal to further develop the undergraduate seminar "Strategies to Reduce Inter-Group Tensions in Multi-Cultural Settings: West Philadelphia as a Test Case." The seminar explores various approaches to reducing intergroup tension with particular emphasis on Penn and its surrounding community, including the public schools and neighborhoods. The seminar also brings together faculty from University City High School and others concerned with intergroup tension in Philadelphia.

Dr. Julie Saecker Schneider, Department of Fine Arts, and Ms. Andrea Zemel, Department of Fine Arts; Proposal to create a new seminar "Community, Collaborative and Public Art," which will work with West Philadelphia schools and their communities to create public art works.

Francis E. Johnston, Professor, Department of Anthropology
Co-Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Community Partnerships

Albert Stunkard, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry,
Director, Obesity Research
Co-Chair, Faculty Advisory Committee, Center for Community Partnerships


Almanac

Volume 43 Number 1
July 16, 1996


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