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Check out the latest news from the Netter Center. Plus join us for Alumni Weekend!
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Join us for Penn Alumni Weekend 2022!Register & view full schedule HERE. Walk-ins welcome!
Alumni Service Event with Classes of 95, 96, 97Saturday, May 14, 2022, 10:30 - 11:30 am EST, College Green
Join Classes of 95, 96, & 97 in making care packages for West Philadelphia children and families supported by the Netter Center. All welcome to stop by!
Civic & Community Engagement: Perspectives from Netter Center AlumniSat., May 14, 2022, 2:30 - 4 pm EST, Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall
Co-sponsored by Classes of 1970, 1987,1997, & 2007
Join Netter founding director Ira Harkavy C70, GR79, PAR01, PAR06 and Netter alumni over the decades as they discuss the past, present, and future of civic and community engagement at Penn. Light reception to follow.
Panelists:
Luke Coleman C22, Netter Center Civic Development Intern and Student Advisory Board Member
Jerry Cudzil C97, Specialist Portfolio Manager and Head of Credit Trading, TCW
Jackie Kraemer C87, Director of Policy Analysis and Development, National Center on Education and the Economy
Ashley Novack C07, Director of Coaching and Professional Development, Mastery Charter Schools
Moderated by Rita A. Hodges C05 GED15, Associate Director, Netter Center
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A ten-minute documentary-style film and story featuring the University-Assisted Community School (UACS) partnership involving the Netter Center and Paul Robeson High School was released by Freethink Media. This partnership was selected to illustrate the potential of UACS for reimagining and significantly changing education for the better.
The benefits of this UACS partnership to both the Robeson community and Penn students, faculty, and staff have been powerful, and many are featured here.
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Small sneakers are squeaking at the Palestra thanks to Young Quakers Community Athletics (YQCA), a collaboration between the Netter Center and Penn Athletics. Established in 2012, YQCA connects Penn’s varsity teams with middle school students in West Philadelphia public schools for after-school mentoring. Recently, YQCA added basketball to their after-school offerings; 40 students are currently attending weekly clinics that cover much more than basketball.
Plus, read more about Young Quakers Track & Field at this year's Penn Relays.
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With 76.7% of eligible students voting in the 2020 presidential general election, Penn outperformed both the national college student voter turnout and general population turnout. Penn also tied for first place in the ALL IN Democracy Challenge’s 2021 Best Action Plan Award among four-year institutions in Pennsylvania. The action plan — released last June by Penn Leads The Vote (PLTV), Netter Center, and the Office of Government and Community Affairs — announced their goal to achieve 100% voter registration for Penn's eligible voters by 2028. Co-Director Harrison Feinman C22 and PLTV were also featured in Boston Globe.
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The Netter team has been collaborating with CHOP and its Healthier Together initiative (CHOP HT), CHOP’s Center for Violence Prevention, CHOP’s Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and the Uplift Center for Grieving Children to develop a place-based comprehensive approach to social, emotional and mental wellness at university-assisted community schools.
Last June, Philadelphia Magazine featured the launch of CHOP HT's partnership with Netter and Uplift to support West Philadelphia students experiencing grief and trauma, as well as support the caregivers and adults in their lives.
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35th annual Women of Color at Penn Awards
The Women of Color at Penn held their 35th annual award ceremony with a virtual celebration hosted by the African American Resource Center. This year honored six women, including Netter's very own Isabel Sampson-Mapp (Associate Director) with the Helen O. Dickens Lifetime Achievement Award, Nicole Harrington (ABCS student), and Margaret Livingston (Netter Community Advisory Board & President of Walnut Hill Community Association).
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| From left: Sampson-Mapp, Harrington, and Livingston
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From left: Kim, Ogburn, and Purvis
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- Joyce Kim, Graduate School of Education, Higher Education
Joyce plans to design and teach an ABCS course that critically examines how the university can be a site of social change, particularly through activism that focuses on solidarity across various racial and ethnic communities in Philadelphia. - Laura Ogburn, Graduate School of Education, Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education
Laura plans to design and teach an ABCS course on education reform, in which Penn students and public school students collaborate to propose solutions to educational issues they identify and address questions about whose expertise matters in conversations about education.
- Erin Purvis, Perelman School of Medicine Biomedical Graduate Studies
Erin plans to design and teach an ABCS course for Biomedical Graduate Students, in which they facilitate hands-on engagement with Robeson High School students, develop science education policy proposals, and critically reflect on the connection between local engagement and academic research. She also plans to lay the groundwork for a Community Engagement Graduate Certificate.
Shout out to graduating 2020-22 PGAEF Fellows, Abi Dym, Sophie Maddox, and Ava Kikut for their dedicated and impactful scholarship, including teaching new ABCS courses, which were among the 78 Academically Based Community Service courses taught in 2021-22!
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More Congratulations!
Teacher Partners
Lou Lozzi, Lead Teacher for Science/Mathematics at Paul Robeson High School, received the High School Grand Prize for 2022 Citadel Heart of Learning Award.
Youth Leaders
Penn Netter Student Leaders
Ayina Anyachebelu C22 & Lawrence Phillips C22 received 2022 Thouron Awards.
Steven Chen C24, Jessica Ford E23, Nikita Bharati C25 and Lorraine Ruppert C25 received 2021-22 Shah Prizes for Innovative Undergraduate Student Projects at Netter. Jessica was also named Penn’s Newman Fellow with national Campus Compact.
Luke Coleman C22 received Penn’s Dr. Martin Luther King Undegraduate Community Involvement Recognition Award. Luke also received Netter’s Keller Award for outstanding service and engagement.
Abi Dym, GED18 LPS18 GR23, PGAEF Fellow, received a School of Arts and Sciences 2022 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students.
Mya Gordon C24 was named a 2022-23 Andrea Mitchell Center Undergraduate Research Fellow.
Daniel Ruiz de la Concha C22 received a Schwarzman Scholarship.
Jonathan Szeto C22 was named a 2022 undergraduate Dean’s Scholar.
Nicholas Thomas-Lewis C22 received a Rhodes Scholarship and named on the 2021-22 Dean’s List.
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Ira Harkavy and Rita A. Hodges wrote an article for Change magazine, "Higher Education and COVID-19: Global and Local Responses.” It focuses on some key takeaways from the 2021 book Higher Education’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Building a Sustainable and Democratic Future that Harkavy co-edited. In particular, they call for a global movement to create the democratic civic university whose primary mission would be advancing democracy democratically on campus, in its local community, and across the wider society. (View Accepted Manuscript.)
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Stay tuned for Netter 30th Anniversary events in 2022-2023!
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