Happy Pride Month and Happy Juneteenth!
For Penn Faculty
To support the creation and implementation of Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) courses, the Netter Center offers the following resources:
- ABCS Course Development Step-by-Step Guide
- Undergraduate Teaching Assistant
- $10,000 Course Development Grants
- Provost-Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Awards
- Access to institutional community partnerships through the Netter Center
- Ongoing support from Netter Center staff to prepare students for community engagement and collaboration
- Transportation (Van Service or SEPTA Tokens)
- Clearances and Background Checks for students working with minors
- Recognition, awards, and leadership opportunities for exemplary students involved in ABCS
- Surveys evaluating the impact of the course on students' personal, professional, and civic development
- Marketing and promotion of the course
- Opportunities for students to continue engagement beyond the course in work-study or volunteer capacities
- Thematic Faculty-led Seminars
- Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) Teaching
- Arts, Culture, and Humanities
- Public Schools
- College Access, Career Readiness, and Democracy
- Improving Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Undergraduate Education through K-20+ Partnerships
- Environment and Health
- Additional resources available on the following topics upon request:
- ABCS & Service Learning
- Reflection
- History of West Philadelphia/Penn
- K12 Lesson Planning/Student Engagement/Classroom Management
- Problem-Solving Learning and Participatory Action Research
- Questions of Race, Class and Privilege
- School District of Philadelphia
- Anchor Institutions
- Democracy, Community Schools and University-Community Partnerships
- Netter Center & Related Faculty Publications
For more information, please contact:
- Anna Balfanz (General ABCS Coordinator) abcscoordinator@sas.upenn.edu
- Jarrett Stein (Food and Nutrition Partnership Courses) steinjm@sas.upenn.edu
- Richard Carter (STEM Partnership Courses) carterri@sas.upenn.edu