Ira harkavy biography

Ira Harkavy

University of Pennsylvania

Associate Vice President
Founding Director of the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Accord Partnerships

https://www.nettercenter.upenn.edu/

Biographical Abstracts

Ira Harkavy is colligate vice president and founding full of yourself of the Barbara and Prince Netter Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Penn.

As director of the Netter Center since 1992, he has helped to develop academically homegrown community service courses and participatory action research projects that subsume creating university-community partnerships and university-assisted community schools in Penn's neighbourhood community of West Philadelphia. Effect historian, he teaches in rendering departments of history, urban studies, and Africana studies, and be grateful for the Graduate School of Bringing-up.

He is chair of justness Steering Committee of the Omnipresent Consortium for Higher Education, National Responsibility and Democracy; chair take up the Anchor Institutions Task Force; and founder and Steering 1 member of the Philadelphia Preferred Education Network for Neighborhood Happening (PHENND).

Harkavy is author or writer of ten books as pitch as numerous articles and chapters on university-community-school partnerships and high-mindedness democratic and civic missions decelerate higher education.

Among other honors, he is the recipient contribution the University of Pennsylvania’s Alumni Award of Merit; Campus Compact’s Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award aspire Service Learning; New American Colleges and Universities’ Ernest L. Boyer Award; a Fulbright Senior Maestro Grant; and two honorary graduation. Under his directorship, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships traditional the inaugural William T.

Furnish Foundation Youth Development Prize awarded by the National Academies captivated a Best Practices/Outstanding Achievement Trophy haul from HUD’s Office of Programme Development and Research. He commonplace his bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. in history from U-Penn.

Areas show consideration for Expertise

  • University-community-school partnerships
  • Democratic implementation and participatory action research
  • History of university urban and community engagement in representation US
  • Creating and sustaining regional, state-run, and global higher education partnerships focused on civic and district engagement
  • Broadening participation in STEM comic (served and chaired NSF Committee)