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Students discuss the shades of black
Blackness is political. It’s social. It’s not just wearing baggy clothes and listening to hip-hop. It’s eating soul food. It’s not the same thing as being African-American. It’s simply too big to define. All of these points and more were raised by the roughly 50 students who showed up for a discussion of “Degrees of Blackness” at DuBois College House Feb. 19.
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Word up to bilingual education
Bolivians speak more than 40 languages besides Spanish. The country made education bilingual and intercultural in the 1994 National Education Reform. South Africans speak multiple African tongues besides English and Afrikaans. The 1993 post-apartheid constitution added the nine African languages to the roster of official national languages and ended the segregation of the education system from four — white, African, Indian and colored (or mixed) — into one integrated system. What’s a teacher to do?
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College house dean named
Frank Pellicone, Ph.D. was named the new dean of Harrison College House. He comes here from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he served as director of undergraduate studies in Italian, coordinator of the Italian language program and faculty advisor to the Italian Student Association. Andréa Grottoli, Ph.D., a new member of the department of earth and environmental sciences, was named faculty fellow of Goldberg College House. Grottoli comes from the University of California, Irvine, where she was a Dreyfus postdoctoral fellow.
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Faith, hope and charity
The words pour out in rivers when John DiIulio Jr. (C’80) starts talking about his latest big project, running the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. The Philly native was picked by President George W. Bush to head the office because DiIulio furnishes secular, scholarly heft to an initiative that some skeptics see as opening a crack in the wall of separation between church and state.
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One system, under Penn, indivisible
The Health System will be neither dismantled nor sold, President Judith Rodin announced Friday after meeting with the Trustees. The steps the University is taking will allow the Health System to respond more quickly in the volatile health care marketplace while maintaining the Health System’s missions of teaching, research and patient care.
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How do we love poetry? Let us count the ways
Valentine’s Day was dreary, drizzly and gray. Inside Kelly Writers House, though, students, faculty and community members gathered to share “Loved Poems and Poems About Love,” no lover required. Guests chattered and balanced plates of pink refreshments — M&Ms, pink wafer cookies and watermelon — on their knees until, at 3:05 p.m., the featured “beloved guests,” so described by Writers House Director Kerry Sherin, took their seats in the curve of the bay window.
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Prof. Farber goes to Washington
Over a year ago, I was asked if I could consider spending a year in government service as Chief Technologist at the Federal Communications Commission – the FCC. As a person who had spent a lot of time in D.C. serving on federal advisory boards, I hesitated. Would I turn into a bureaucrat? Would I waste a year or would I learn a lot that would help me in better teaching when I returned? I chose to go.
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"I said, I'll show the world. I was not one that you should have counted out."
It’s a straight shot down 34th Street from Robert Alsbrooks’ childhood home in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia to the office he now occupies at the Medical School. Alsbrooks, however, took the long way around. He took a detour through the underground economy and did seven years in a state penitentiary on assault charges. In the five years since he’s been out, he’s more than made up for lost time. In January, his contributions earned him Penn’s Martin Luther King Community Service Employee Award.
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Two in policy research
The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) has been awarded $18 million from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Research and Improvement for continuation of its research on educational practice and policy. CPRE, part of the Graduate School of Education, analyzes the effectiveness of education policy, finance, governance and reform.
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Weird science
Sort of looks like Yoda, doesn’t he? Even if he doesn’t, it’s no coincidence that Clint Takeda’s “Trance Chimp,” pictured here, has a science-fictiony feel to it. The Philadelphia sculptor’s works draw from images of sensory deprivation, evolution and science from science fiction films and other items of popular culture.