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Two Decades of Collaboration Between Penn and the Community:
Solving Strategic, Real-World, Complex Problems and Advancing the Public Good

written by Ira Harkavy

Dr. Ira Harkavy, the University of Pennsylvania's associate vice president and director of the Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) spoke last month at a hearing on Mentoring and Community-Based Solutions to Delinquency and Youth Violence-on February 19, 2007-giving the following testimony to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, of which Senator Arlen Specter is a ranking member. Dr. Harkavy, CCP's founding director, was one of the panelists who testified at the hearing which was held at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

"...At Penn, students and faculty are also engaged in service learning that entails the development and application of knowledge to solve local problems along ..."

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