Glenn moyer wrote:
I said that we were being "treated like third graders."
3 more forums, on 3 consecutive days -- interesting to compare penn's technique of engagement with temple's:
- - - - feb 23: "the essence of leadership" preceptorials hosted by wharton's michael useem and penn's president gutmann http://tinyurl.com/d5dba8
For part of the session, students were divided into groups and asked to pick a historical or contemporary figure they all agreed was a good leader. Each group then presented its choice along with two to four qualities that defined its chosen leader to the rest of the room. Students presented on leaders as diverse as Mahatma Gandhi, Mohammed Ali, Steve Jobs and Penn's own Ira Harkavy - founder of Penn's Center for Community Partnerships. Perseverance, good communication skills and the ability to lead by example came up frequently in different groups' leadership templates. This exercise demonstrated the inductive way in which the preceptorial was designed to work. Useem told students to "take example and experience and extract the underlying principles of leadership." Gutmann said she was impressed by how well the students completed the assignment and by their level of engagement.
- - - - - feb 24: seven community forums to get input for citywide mural project, led by ppce's sokoloff and whyy's satullo http://tinyurl.com/aerxy8
Two teams of artists will incorporate the beliefs of participants of all seven forums into proposed murals, and later, residents will pick the mural that most represents the theme. "Murals are about what is possible," said Harris Sokoloff, director of the Penn Project for Civic Engagement, which is running the forums with WHYY. "And these forums are an opportunity for people to come out and talk about their beliefs and what's possible for the city, rather than focusing on the negatives." Tonight will represent a different kind of civic engagement for Sokoloff.... "We're going to ask people to share a story with someone else," Sokoloff said. People will sit in pairs and "interview each other and ask what it's like to live where they live, what it feels like, tastes like, smells like, sounds like," Sokoloff said. "Out of that, we will talk about what they believe -- what beliefs or values are implied in that story."
- - - - feb 25: temple's spin forum about the local effects and responses to the economic crisis, hosted by temple's student public interest network http://www.temple.edu/law/spin/forum.html
The Temple SPIN Forum will address the local effects of, and responses to, the global economic crisis. The global economic crisis has hit Philadelphia hard, impacting the city in a number of ways. The city is faced with an enormous budget deficit. Health centers are closing and access to affordable healthcare is down. Unemployment and foreclosures are rising. The purpose of the forum is to engage with members of the community, politicians, researchers, students, and advocates, to inform the policy debate about how to deal with the economic crisis here in Philadelphia. Panelists will speak about housing, jobs, and healthcare issues, how the budget cuts have affected their work and their clients, and solutions they have devised.
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