{"id":10148,"date":"2012-11-12T08:52:01","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10148"},"modified":"2012-11-12T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:52:01","slug":"the-netter-center-for-community-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=10148","title":{"rendered":"the Netter Center for Community Partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Philadelphia, PA) I am at the University of Pennsylvania along with about 500 colleagues who have come here to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Penn&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nettercenter.upenn.edu\/\">Netter Center for Community Partnerships<\/a>. The Netter Center connects an Ivy League University to the civic life and social problems of a great but distressed American city. The Netter Center encourages and supports research and service-learning, known at Penn as &#8220;Academically Based Community Service.&#8221; At the heart of its work are about 60 courses each year (enrolling a total of about 1,700 students) that address social problems in West Philadelphia. These separate courses contribute to a coordinated approach that Penn develops and refines in collaboration with the community. The Center was founded in 1992, near the start of the current movement for community-university partnerships and civic engagement in higher education. It has always set the standard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Philadelphia, PA) I am at the University of Pennsylvania along with about 500 colleagues who have come here to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Penn&#8217;s Netter Center for Community Partnerships. The Netter Center connects an Ivy League University to the civic life and social problems of a great but distressed American city. The Netter Center [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10148"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10178,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10148\/revisions\/10178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}