"Engaged Scholarship, Engaged Teaching, and Engaged Learning: Penn's Faculty and Students in Partnership with Neighboring Communities"
Dr. Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President and founding Director of the Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania
Harkavy, a nationally recognized authority on university-community partnerships, will explore how engaged scholarship provides a powerful means to help realize the historic promise of the American research university. Counter to the historical trend of universities becoming increasingly separated from, rather than engaged with, the wider community, Harkavy will illustrate how research, teaching, learning and service can be advanced through attempts to solve universal problems, such as poverty, inadequate health care, and unequal schooling. He will also discuss the obstacles to implementing engaged scholarship and propose steps that might be taken to reduce those obstacles and create and sustain genuinely democratic research universities.
Preceding the lecture will be a reception in the Oregon Courtyard (between Buildings 260 & 250) at 5:00 pm.