The Chester-Swarthmore Community Coalition models community-initiated collaboration between the college and its surrounding community. Six Swarthmore College faculty and fifty students volunteer at one of the low-income housing development in the Chester neighborhood. A variety of youth projects undertaken at the sites include tutoring and writing classes for elementary school children, a non-violence training program for middle school children and a boys choir. Through these and other projects, the faculty and students have developed a relationship with families at the housing developments that now spans six years.
From Service Matters 1998: Engaging Higher Education In the Renewal of America s Communities and American Democracy
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