UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Sept. 2 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Ten graduate students from universities across the country came to Penn State this summer to learn how to make their research a vehicle for social change.
Led by Ray Block Jr., Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute for Democracy and professor of political science and of African American studies, the inaugural Mixed Methods Summer Intensive for Practice-Based Researchers program trained participants how to study civic engagement, organizing and democratic participation as a means of practicing community-engaged research, which brings academics and community groups together to solve pr...