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Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award & Nomination Process: February 24

Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award

We are pleased to announce the Netter Center Faculty-Community Partnership Award. This is a new annual award of $5,000 to recognize outstanding Faculty-Community Partnership projects in Philadelphia, particularly West Philadelphia. One award will be made annually: $2,500 to a faculty member and $2,500 to the community partner to develop and advance an existing partnership. Junior and senior faculty along with senior lecturers and associated faculty from any of Penn’s 12 schools are eligible for nomination. Please see below for the complete description and process of nomination. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this award, please direct them to Jenny Bae, ABCS coordinator, at baeji@sas.upenn.edu

—Dennis DeTurck, Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and 
Professor of Mathematics, SAS;
Faculty Fellow of Riepe College House; 
Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—John Gearhart, James W. Effron University Professor and 
Emeritus Director, Institute for Regenerative Medicine; 
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Animal Biology, PSOM and School of Veterinary Medicine; 
Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President,
Founding Director, Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships

—John Jackson Jr., Dean of the School of Social Policy and Practice; Richard Perry University Professor of Communication, 
Africana Studies, and Anthropology; 
Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—Francis E. Johnston, Emeritus Professor, Anthropology, SAS;
Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—Terri H. Lipman, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement, 
Miriam Stirl Endowed Term Professor of Nutrition,
Professor of Nursing of Children, SON;
Netter Center Faculty Advisory Board Co-Chair

—Carol Muller, Professor of Music, Director of Jazz and 
Popular Music Studies Minor, SAS;
Netter Center Faculty Fellow, Moorman-Simon Program for Education and Schooling for Democracy and Citizenship

Award Nomination Process: February 24

The new award recognizes Faculty-Community Partnership Projects. One award will be made annually for $2,500 to a faculty member and another $2,500 to the community partner to develop and advance an existing partnership.

Criteria for Selection

(1) Must be a faculty member whose work is affiliated with the Netter Center for Community Partnerships i.e., engaged with Academically Based Community Service (ABCS), Problem Solving Learning (PSL) or Participatory Action Research (PAR) style pedagogy and/or research.
(2) Can be assistant, associate, or full professor, senior lecturer, or associated faculty.
(3) Must demonstrate record of sustainable engagement.

Process of Nomination

(1) Nominators should submit a completed packet (as outlined below) by February 24 of the given academic year to the ABCS coordinator at the Netter Center, who will submit applications to the faculty awards committee.
(2) The faculty committee will submit their recommendations by March 31 to Netter Center Director Ira Harkavy, who will make the final selection by April 7.

Nomination Packet

(1) Cover sheet including: name, title, department, school, mailing address; 100-word abstract describing the partnership, its impacts and its potential for sustainability.
(2) Two letters of support (at least one must be from the community partner).
(3) A two-page CV that highlights community engagement work of the nominee.
(4) 800-word document detailing the following items:
a. Significance of Engagement with the Community: a description of the project; outline the pedagogical practices, the nature of the partnership, and where relevant, the scholarly presentations and/or publications that have come out of or may develop from this work.
b. Impact of the Project: outline the community and academic impacts of the project, including impacts on Penn.
c. Sustainability: What are future plans for further engagement with this project, or for new related projects? What are the community partners’ expectations of further engagement, and how are these being addressed by the faculty member?

Constitution of Awards Committee

(1) The selection committee will comprise a Netter Center Faculty Fellow and three other Netter-affiliated faculty members. The committee members will be appointed annually.
(2) The committee will make recommendations only.

Announcement of Awards:

Awards and award winners will be announced in Almanac and in the Netter Center’s Annual/Biannual Report.

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