UR professor sends students into Highland Park to study poverty
Not all laboratories come equipped with petri dishes and test tubes. Just ask any student enrolled in Jennifer Erkulwater’s spring 2009 political science course “Poverty and Political Voice.” Erkulwater had her students explore systemic poverty through reading assignments, a blog, classroom discussions and service-learning experiences in Highland Park, a low-income neighborhood in Northside Richmond. … Daniel Colosimo, ‘11, […]
Not all laboratories come equipped with petri dishes and test tubes. Just ask any student enrolled in Jennifer Erkulwater’s spring 2009 political science course “Poverty and Political Voice.”
Erkulwater had her students explore systemic poverty through reading assignments, a blog, classroom discussions and service-learning experiences in Highland Park, a low-income neighborhood in Northside Richmond.
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Daniel Colosimo, ‘11, agrees. “Students at UR should be required to do some kind of community-based learning before they graduate,” Colosimo says.
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