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.

Filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris visits Bates College to show his 2014 documentary Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People at 1 p.m. Sunday, March 8, in the Benjamin E. Mays Center, 90 Russell St. Marcus Bruce, Benjamin E. Mays Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, is his host.Darby Ray. director of the Harward Center

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.”