Service  |  Academic Work  |  Education & Training  |  Capacity Building  |  Deliberative Democracy

Sub-Categories

• After School Programs
• Subject Tutoring
• Homework Tutoring
• ESL
• Charter School 
• College Access Center
• Literacy Programs
• Child Development
• Inside Out Program
• Summer Camps

Types of Service   short-term  |  ongoing school year  |  summer

Short Term

o   One time events at the Child Development Center

o   Engineering Camp for Girls

Ongoing School Year

• Widener Cares
  • Student developed and planned
  • After School tutoring/mentoring program
• Widener Big Friends
  • Student developed & planned
  • Homework Help
    • Sessions depends on student’s homework subjects
• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Southeastern Pennsylvania
  • Partnership with Stester Elementary School
  • Goal of 200 matches next year
  • Widener Student sits on board
• Child Development Center
  • Reading
  • Activities & Enrichment
• Widener Partnership Charter School
  • Tutoring & test preparation

o    Testing & counseling provided by Social Work Counseling Services whose staff includes undergraduate and graduate students from the Center for Social Work Education and the Institute of Graduate Clinical Psychology who are involved in clinical internships as well as school-based services.

• College Access Center of Delaware County
  • aims to increase the number of Delaware County students who will enter and succeed in higher education.
  • provides free educational services to students beginning in sixth grade through senior year of high school, and to adults wishing to pursue or complete a college degree.
• Project Forward Leap
  • Project Forward Leap is a partnership with Widener supporting the Saturday Tutoring and Enrichment Program (STEP). Student teachers offer educational tutoring, interactive lessons and academic games which focus on fostering social skills.
• Widener Reads & Widener Counts
  • Student tutors (paid through work-study grants) serve in three schools in the Chester area (Drexel Neumann, Widener Partnership Charter School, and the Chester Community Charter School) within two school districts (Chester-Upland and Ridley Township).
• Science Teaching Center
  • provide comprehensive outreach programs for public and private schools in the Greater Delaware Valley region. Upgraded facilities, in Widener's Kirkbride Science Building, has led to renewed and reinvigorated interest in PK-16 science education.
• Freedom Baptist Church After-School Exercise Program
  • Every week during a semester, three graduate physical therapy students teach exercise classes to the students at Freedom Baptist Church to help promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle choices.

Summer

• Project Prepare
  • Provides a six-week summer program for educationally disadvantaged high school graduates. Successful completion of the program prepares students for full-time enrollment at Widener University in the fall semester.
• Junior Senior Summer Challenge Program
  • Widener University collaborated with the Chester Upland School District and the Chester Education Foundation to offer this five-week free summer program provided rising 10th and 11th grade students with academic and social enrichment to help them prepare for college.  

Academic Work  courses  |  service-learning  |  CBR and policy research   |  departments and institutes

Courses

Spring 09 Service-Learning Education Courses

o   BIOL 172 – Service Learning in Biology, Teaching Concepts of Freshman Biology to Elementary School Students

o   ED 250 – Introduction to Special Education

o   HSED 626 - Human Sexuality for the Education & Counseling Professional II

o   PSY/ED 201 – Educational Psychology

Service Learning

Since 2004, Widener students and faculty have been actively engaged in the city of Chester through service learning. 

• Over 70 different academic service-learning courses have been taught.
• Over 1,000 students have enrolled in at least one service learning course.
• 52 faculty members have participated in the Academic Service Learning

  Faculty Development Program.  

CBR & Policy Research

·         Occurring on campus, however not within the purview of the PSC/Bonner Leaders Program

Departments & Institutes

• Widener University Center for Education
• Widener Center for Social Work
• Widener Institute for Graduate Clinical Psychology
• Widener Institute for Physical Therapy Education
• Widener Science Department
• Widener Department of Engineering
• Office of the President – PSC/Bonner Leaders 

Education & Training   forums  |  workshops  |  reflection activities

Forums

Workshops

·         Training modules are implemented each semester for on campus tutoring/mentoring programs such as Widener Cares & Widener Big Friends.

Reflection Activities

Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building  training  |  fundraising  |  resource development

Training

Fundraising

• Budge re-allocation
• Widener Partnership Charter School is state funded 

Resource Development

Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy   evaluations  |  policy research  | issue forums  |  advocacy

Evaluations

Policy Research

Issue Forums

Advocacy

Contactsstaff  |  faculty  |  students  |  community partners (local, regional, national)

Staff

• ·         Cecilia M. McCormick – Executive Director Office of the President
• ·         Melissa Otis – Greek Life & Volunteer Services 
• ·         Marcine Pickron Davis - Assistant to the President for Community Engagement
•       Arlene Dowshen, Ed.D.- Director of Service Learning

Students

·         Dana Bay

Community Partners

Local

·         Delaware County Literacy Council

·         Widener Child Development Center

·         Widener Partnership Charter School

·         The Achievement Project of Chester

·         Delaware County Housing Coalition

·         Chester Eastside Ministries

·         The Unity Center

·         Freedom Baptist Church

·         Crozer Keystone’s Community Hospital

·         Stetser Elementary School

·         The Nia Center

·         Drexel Neumann

·         Chester Community Charter School

·         Chester Education Foundation

Regional

• Big Brother/Big Sister of Southeastern Pennsylvania