Westside Communities Alliance

A partnership between Atlanta's westside communities and institutions of higher education.

Netter Center 20th Anniversary Conference

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“The Role of University-Community-School Partnerships in Creating Democratic Communities Locally, Nationally, and Globally: An International Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships, 1992 to 2012”

The conference drew over 500 participants from nearly 80 colleges and universities and 110 local, national, and global organizations (including colleagues from across the United States and from Australia, Canada, Chile, France, Northern Ireland, Lebanon, and Spain).

 

Six Georgia Tech affiliates attended the conference in November 2012 in Philadelphia, PA, pictured below and listed from left to right: Christopher Burke, Director of Community Relations; Dr. Sheri Davis-Faulkner, WCA Community Liaison;Dr.  Ellen Zegura, Professor in School of Computer Science; Sarah Perkins, Community Services Coordinator; Dr. Gregory Nobles, Director of GT Honors Program; Mackenzie Madden, WCA Activities Coordinator.

The Netter Center takes Penn students and faculty beyond volunteerism to a deeper level of engagement. They’ve helped faculty members develop a number of Academically-Based Community Service classes and have established an ongoing relationship with West Philadelphia schools.

Read more about Georgia Tech’s presence at the conference here.

Read more about the Netter Center here.

WCA Netter Photo

Bridges Symposium

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Bridges Symposium 1The Bridges Symposium that took place on February 14, 2012, represented a major point of departure for beginning the conversation at Georgia Tech about community engagement. Co-sponsored by the Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts and the College of Architecture, the symposium featured a keynote speech by Ira Harkavy, Director of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania, a leading national voice on university-community partnerships. The event brought together Georgia Tech faculty, staff, and students, and members of the English Avenue Community, to discuss their relationship’s strengths, sites of opportunity, and visions for the future. The Symposium represented a key moment expressing the vision and direction of the Westside Communities Alliance to selected members of the community, as well as catalyzing potential participants at the Institute.