The University of Pittsburgh Community Outreach Partnership Center presents:

“The University of Michigan’s Approach to Community Service and Learning”

By Margaret Dewar, PhD

Faculty Director, Edward Ginsberg Center for Service

and Learning and Emil Lorch Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan

WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 2006

12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m

2500 POSVAR HALL

University of Pittsburgh

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER:

Margaret Dewar is Emil Lorch Professor at the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan. She is also the new Faculty Director of the Edward Ginsberg Center for Service and Learning, which strives to engage students, faculty members, university staff, and community partners in a process which combines community service and academic learning in order to promote civic participation, build community capacity, and enhance the educational process. Professor Dewar’s research focuses on troubled industries and the distressed regions and communities that surround them, including the historic transformation of the Detroit regional economy and initiatives to revitalize areas affected by economic and technological restructuring of heavy manufacturing

RSVP to COPC at: hirth@gro.pitt.edu

For more information on the Community Outreach Partnership Center, visit:

www.pitt.edu/~copc