[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't miss the "letter" by Andrew Goodman in today's University City Review,
and the response by the Editor/Publisher, Bob Christian.
Andrew's letter is stereotypical of the anointed vision so many of the
Penn/UCD people have of what's best for everybody else, and Bob's response puts
this in its place.
well, bob's got a long row to hoe.
beyond staged meetings of 'engagement' between the
enlightened and the benighted that he reports on, I hope
he's had a look at the academy's role in all this:
http://www.upenn.edu/ccp/abcs-courses/academic-year-2006-2007.html
excerpts:
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FALL 2006
PENN AND WEST PHILADELPHIA, 1930-2005
EDUC 245 001/URBS 327 401 (R 2:00-5:00 PM)
John Puckett and Richard Redding
This experimental ABCS seminar gives students access to
specialized resources, including the Philadelphia City
Planning Commission and the University Archives and Records
Center (UARC), for original research that contributes to a
fuller understanding of Penn's enlightened self-interest and
social responsibility in West Philadelphia. Our goals are
threefold: 1) to examine Penn's expansion and involvement in
West Philadelphia since World War II, the period that marks
Penn's rise as a world-class research university; 2) to view
the University's motives and actions in the context of West
Philadelphia's history in the Cold War and Global Society
eras; 3) to initiate a social survey of West Philadelphia
neighborhoods that provides important new knowledge to
inform decision making at Penn, whose future is contingent
on the quality of life in these neighborhoods. As the
seminar's main project, students will construct neighborhood
profiles that track changes in racial/ethnic composition and
critical quality-of-life indicators across the past six
decades; and they will assess how and to what extent Penn
has influenced these changes—for better, worse, or nil.
Class meetings will include, among other activities, a tour
of West Philadelphia neighborhoods and presentations by West
Philadelphia community leaders and Philadelphia city planners.
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URBAN UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIPS (BFS)
HIST 214 401/URBS 078 401/AFRC 078 401 (W 2:00-5:00pm)
Ira Harkavy & Lee Benson
Inspired by Penn's founder, Ben Franklin, President Amy
Gutmann has identified rising to the challenge of a diverse
democracy and educating students for democratic citizenship
as critical goals of her administration. Since the present
undergraduate curriculum falls short in this regard, the
seminar aims to synthesize numerous, unrelated,
academically-based community service courses into an
effectively integrated curriculum. As now envisioned, the
new Penn curriculum developed by the seminar would have as a
significant component, thematic, problem-solving clusters,
i.e., interrelated, cross-disciplinary, complementary sets
of courses designed to stimulate and empower students to
produce, not simply consumer, societally-useful knowledge.
By societally-useful knowledge, we mean knowledge actively
used to solve universal strategic problems of democracy and
society, schooling and society, health and society, poverty
and society, environment and society, culture and society,
etc., as those universal problems manifest themselves
locally at Penn and in West Philadelphia/Philadelphia.
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CITIZENSHIP AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT (BFS)
PSCI 291 301 (T 2:00-5:00pm)
Henry Teune
This is an idea generating, research seminar focused on Penn
as a case study examining and assessing the contributions of
colleges and universities to the democratic development of
their students, communities, and societies. Faculty from
other departments of SAS and other Schools will participate.
Three objectives will be pursued. First, discussions about
citizenship and democracy will be based on readings and
research on what colleges and universities as well other
institutions say they intend to do or are actually doing
about education for democracy. Attention will be given to
the proceedings and publications of the Council of Europe
and its 2005 European Year of Citizenship through Education
in which Penn is involved. Second, the seminar will collect
and analyze data gathered from a questionnaire that will be
administered to target populations of Penn undergraduates.
The data collected last year will be integrated with these
new data on the democratic values, knowledge, and
competencies of Penn students. Third, students will be
organized into research teams and go into the near
neighborhoods of Penn to assess what impact it is having on
building the foundations for democratic life in those
localities. The target locations will supplement those that
were studied last fall. Papers and presentations will be
based on the information and analyses generated in the
seminar as well as the records of two previous seminars
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SPRING 2007
POVERTY, RACISM, AND CRIME IN WEST PHILADELPHIA AND WHAT
SHOULD PENN DO DEMOCRATICALLY TO OVERCOME THEM?
CPLN 506 401/URBS 403 401 (R 3:00-6:00pm)
Anthony Tomazinis, Ira Harkavy, Richard Gelles, Henry Teune,
Van McMurtry, and Lee Benson
This seminar will have a unique structure and significant
resources to study a real and vibrant community. West
Philadelphia from the Schuylkill River to 63rd Street, to
Hook Road in Eastwick to City Line in Overbrook, an area of
about 30 square miles, more than 210,000 residents, and more
than 55,000 jobs. This research seminar will be
inter-disciplinary with more than a dozen Departments and
Programs participating, providing more than twenty-five (25)
senior faculty members. The seminars will be a mix of actual
field research work undertaken by the participating students
under the guidance of experienced faculty members and
theoretical discussions in the classroom with teams of
faculty members
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DESIGN, VISUALIZATION, AND CONSTRUCTION FOR COMMUNITY
DEVELOPMENT
EAS 282 001/ BE 280 001 (MWF 10:00-11:00am)
Norman Badler
This course will examine the various multimedia tools and
technologies that are used in the design, construction and
planning professions when designing community development
projects. Over the course of the semester, students will
use the 3D modeling and animation application SketchUp to
generate a community development project of their own
design. This project will serve as a platform for students
to examine how development projects move from concept to
reality through the involvement of four significant parties:
the developer, the design professionals, the community and
the construction manager. In addition to multimedia tools
and technologies, students will examine the socioeconomic
forces that influence site selection and project function,
the architects’ and engineers’ design processes from concept
sketches to detailed plans and building sections, the impact
a project can have on its community and the environment, and
finally the construction bid process and the construction
manager’s handling of the project once awarded the job.
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URBAN EDUCATION
EDUC 202 401/URBS 202 401 (M 2:00-5:00pm)
Cheryl Jones Walker
Through an examination of national and state policy
formulation regarding public education, and an examination
of issues, concepts and characteristics of urban public
school systems, this course is intended to help address the
question of whether urban public schools as presently
constituted and conducted can bring about an equitable society.
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