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Whenever anyone begins volunteering at the Philips Brooks House Association (PBHA), one of the first forms you have to complete is a Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) request form. PBHA and other volunteer organizations and employers use CORIs to screen applicants to protect the populations which they serve from potentially dangerous criminals. Although CORIs may seem logical (why wouldn’t we want to protect middle school students from criminal offenders?), the composition, abuse, and widespread access to CORI by private employers have created serious racial and penal injustices. When CORI was created in the 1970s as a database...
Some administrators and students who support activity based learning have advocated using the existing programs at the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA)—the student-run public service organization—as a starting point for a University-coordinated ABL initiative, citing the success of such an approach among the small number of courses that already have an ABL component...
...more successful ABL programs have taken what systems already exist at PBHA and made them available for ABL,” said Angelico N. A. Razon ’08, the president of PBHA...
...something that is at the core of the success of an education.” The event was cosponsored by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Standing Committee on Public Service, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), and the Public Service Network. The meeting featured presentations by Lisa Boes, a research officer at the Bok Center, and Annie Riley ’07, a Social Studies concentrator, both of whom emphasized the program’s promise and benefits to students. Boes drew from her May 2006 Graduate School of Education...
CORRECTION: The print version of the April 10 news article "PBHA Receives Carter Award" carried an incorrect headline. PBHA was a finalist for the award, but did not receive...