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Ira Harkavy is associate vice president
and director of the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community
Partnerships; harkavy@pobox.upenn
.edu. Matthew Hartley is associate
professor and chair of higher education
at the University of Pennsylvania’s
Graduate School of Education; hartley@
gse.upenn.edu. Joann Weeks (weeks@
pobox.upenn.edu) and Cory Bowman
( bowman@pobox.upenn.edu) are associate directors at the Netter Center.
VIDEO
To see a video about the
University of Pennsylvania’s
partnership with Sayre High
School and the Dr. Bennett
L. Johnson Jr. Sayre Health
Center, go to www.upenn
.edu/ccp/newsroom/ 339.html.