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...only does the program provide courses that bring child advocacy experts into the classroom, but it also sends students to gain first-hand experience.“It’s made it more real,” says third-year law student Elisa Poncz, who worked in a Philadelphia juvenile law center through CAP. “You can see what real-life child advocates are doing.”Though CAP has not completely convinced all of its participants to pursue a career in child advocacy, it has nonetheless exposed many students to a new field of law.Carlos...
There was another kind of uproar in Philadelphia in November when Thomas Jefferson University announced it was going to sell--for $68 million--one of the touchstones of 19th century American painting, The Gross Clinic by Thomas Eakins, who spent nearly all of his turbulent career in Philadelphia. It didn't help that one of the buyers was Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton, who wanted it for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which she's bankrolling in Bentonville, Ark. This would be the same Alice Walton who paid the New York Public Library about $35 million two years...
...prospect of having their cultural patrimony carted off to Arkansas, the good people of Philadelphia reared up like Italians hearing that plundered Roman marbles were being earmarked for Malibu. By the end of January they had cobbled together enough real or potential financing to keep the Eakins at home in a joint purchase by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the much smaller Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (PAFA), with the same kind of back-and-forth lending between the two institutions. Then came the next shock. To defray its part of the purchase, PAFA announced it was selling...
...today's market, it will always be tempting to cash out. In March, just as Philadelphia was congratulating itself for managing to keep The Gross Clinic at home, Jefferson University dropped the other shoe. It abruptly announced it would also be selling its two remaining Eakinses, both of them portraits of 19th century physicians who were once on the school's faculty. The weary and tapped-out locals have made no significant move to save those...
Indeed, Harvard’s peer institutions have already recognized and embraced the potential of this type of learning. The University of Pennsylvania boasts 46 academic courses in 19 different departments that integrate classroom experience with work in the neighborhoods of West Philadelphia. Other Ivies also have strong community-based learning programs, which have flourished, in large measure, because they support professors in developing curricula that integrate activity-based work with classroom learning. Activity-based components are not merely tacked onto courses as an afterthought, as the latest model proposed by Harvard’s Task Force on General Education...