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Scientific American featured appetite-suppressing research by Rob Doyle (chemistry).
America Magazine profiled Mary Karr, Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature (Creative Writing)
The Chronicle of Higher Education featured an op-ed piece by David Yaffe (English) on 20th-century American poetry
A Success magazine feature on primatologist Jane Goodall extensively quotes Dean Emerita Cathryn R. Newton.
BBC News highlighted research by Jason Fridley (biology) on invasive plants. Science 360 and other media also covered the story
National Public Radio interviewed Dana Spiotta (Creative Writing) about her recent book, Stone Arabia.
'Gravyland' chronicles urban university writing program
Author Stephen Parks a force in community writing
Parks details the experience of the New City Writing program at Temple University from its beginning as a small institute with one program at a local public school to a multifaceted organization, raising millions of dollars, and establishing partnerships across the diverse neighborhoods of Philadelphia. In doing so, the author describes classrooms where the community takes a seat and becomes part of the conversation—a conversation that is recorded and shared through a selection of the writing produced.
While Parks celebrates classroom success in generating knowledge through dialog with the larger community, he also highlights many of the obstacles the organizers of the New City Writing program faced. He shows that writing alliances between universities and communities are possible, but they must take into account the institutional, economic and political pressures that accompany such partnerships.
Blending the theoretical and practical lessons learned, Parks details New City Writing’s effort to offer a new model of education, one in which the voice of the professor must share space with the voices of the community, and one in which students come to understand that the right to sit in a classroom is not just the result of war, but of peaceful civil disobedience, of community struggles to gain self-recognition and of collective efforts to seek social justice.
Parks is the author of “Class Politics: The Movement for the Students’ Right to Their Own Language.” He is also executive director of New City Community Press and editor of Reflections: A Journal of Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy. In addition, Parks has published a recent article with Nick Pollard in College Composition and Communication (February 2010): “Emergent Strategies for an Established Field: The Role of Worker-Writer Collectives in Composition and Rhetoric.”
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