Educators, community leaders attend 5th annual Civic Engagement Summit at UMass Dartmouth

Marshaling universities' resources to create strong partnerships with local school districts is the key to both college student growth and education reform, the keynote speaker at UMass Dartmouth's regional community partnership summit said Thursday.

And universities need to move toward creating more of those partnerships, said Ira Harkavy, founding director at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships in his address to more than 100 educators, UMass Dartmouth administrators and faculty, and nonprofit organization representatives.

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