{"id":65562,"date":"2013-05-23T09:48:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T13:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=65562"},"modified":"2021-01-08T15:32:48","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T20:32:48","slug":"sun-journal-offers-q-and-a-with-harward-centers-darby-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/23\/sun-journal-offers-q-and-a-with-harward-centers-darby-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun Journal offers Q-and-A with Harward Center’s Darby Ray"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a Q-and-A, Sun Journal<\/em> reporter Kathryn Skelton asks Darby Ray, director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, “If you were a student, what project through the Harward Center makes you think, ‘I’d be all over that'”?<\/p>\n

Ray’s answer pointed to a partnership with an elementary school about a mile from campus.<\/p>\n

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Darby Ray is the director of the Harward Center for Community Partnerships and the
Donald W. and Ann M. Harward Professor of Civic Engagement at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College)<\/p><\/div>\n

“Last semester one of the education classes at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ met all semester long at Farwell Elementary School. The students and professor didn’t just visit the school once or twice \u2014 they actually held their college course at<\/em> the elementary school, which enabled an amazing reciprocity of knowledge, insight and energy.<\/p>\n

“I love that kind of creative exchange.”<\/p>\n