Sun Journal offers Q-and-A with Harward Center’s Darby Ray
In a Q-and-A, Sun Journal 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'”?
Ray’s answer pointed to a partnership with an elementary school about a mile from campus.
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 Bates College. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
“Last semester one of the education classes at Bates met all semester long at Farwell Elementary School. The students and professor didn’t just visit the school once or twice — they actually held their college course at the elementary school, which enabled an amazing reciprocity of knowledge, insight and energy.
“I love that kind of creative exchange.”
