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PAR Project: Drexel University

Drexel University - PA, Pennsylvania

Drexel established a three-term course enabling undergraduate students to engage in a PAR project with the Health Corner and the senior group at the West Philadelphia Community Center in Mantua and the Mantua Branch of the Philadelphia Free Library. In the former, students and seniors began to conduct a senior lunch program study by surveying those not using the lunch program. In the latter, a reading group began to critique and respond to a published ethnography of the neighborhood.

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