The Graduate School of Social Work maintains the Bridge Project, initiated by Chancellor Dan Ritchie in 1991, which “”adopted”" three public housing communities, collaborating with citizens to address such issues as education, employment, violence, and drugs. This Northwest side partnership has expanded in both student participation and funding as a result of the success of the “”Learn and Earn”" technology program at Horace Mann Middle School, through which students gain access to otherwise unavailable technologies by constructing and keeping their own computers, using corporate-donated machines. The $200,000 MCI-WorldCom grant will continue and expand this technology program over the next five years by extending it to other Denver schools and their surrounding communities. The “”Virtual Civic Democracy”" project will explore the civic uses of information technologies through computer and internet training and the creation of community web pages.

Contact: C. David Lisman at dlisman {at} du(.)edu