For the past four years professors at the University of Toronto have been providing an education as well as academic counseling to residents of Regent Park, one of Toronto’s most impoverished and multicultural neighborhoods in what is known as the Learning Exchange Program.
The courses are normally six to twelve sessions long and include topics such as music, sports, philosophy, business and other interdisciplinary studies in small classes of between ten and twenty students.
Tonight, Frank Lacobucci, a former Justice on the Supreme Court of Canada and a former President of the University of Toronto will answer many of their questions about law and multiculturalism within Canada.
“It’s taught by professors of the University of Toronto who volunteer their time and we call it a learning exchange program because the university professors learn as least as much from the members of the class as they do from the professors,” said philosophy prof Frank Cunningham, the organizer of the program.
-Josh Rubin
