Community Partnerships' Summer Teaching Grants

[Article from 2/21/95 _Almanac_]

The Center for Community Partnerships has awarded the following Summer Course Development Grants for 1995. Grants are awarded for 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 community.

   **Dr. Eric Cheyfitz and Farah Griffin, English; Proposal for a
Course in Community Studies Linking Penn Undergraduates and West
Philadelphia High School Students.
   **Dr. Peter Conn, English; English 388: American Studies.
   **Dr. Alan Filreis, English; Teaching the Holocaust as Model for
High School-University Partnerships.
   Dr. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Sociology; Sexuality, Health, and
Adolescent Development.
   Dr. Robert E. Kohler, History and Sociology of Science;
Environmental History and the Urban Scene.
   Dr. Julia Paley, Anthropology and Urban Studies; Methods in Urban
Ethnography.
   Dr. Peggy Reeves Sanday, Anthropology; Cultural Pluralism:
Ethnography and Community Service.
   Dr. Anne Whiston Spirn, Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning; Landscape and Community in the Mill Creek Watershed.
   Dr. Thomas Sugrue, History; Institutions and Neighborhood Change:
West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia, 1940-1990.   

          --Dr. Francis E. Johnston, Anthropology,
          and Dr. Albert Stunkard,  Psychiatry,
          Co-Chairs, Faculty Advisory Committee,
          Center for Community Partnerships