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[DISCLAIMER: This is a nonprofit, community based educational initiative, with no official connection to the current program (F2008 - Present) at Temple University. All copyrighted material is used under Fair Use provisions of the Copyright Act.]

Mission Statement

With the motto: “Keeping the Community Informed,” the program’s mission was to provide continuing and basic adult education services to the community at nominal cost through the cooperative efforts of the resources of the university and volunteer faculty.

This was achieved through the following services:

- life skills, college preparatory, liberal arts and technical education

- courses to prepare adults for the General Educational Development (GED) Examination

- basic adult literacy preparation (BAL / ABE)

- tutorial services, educational counseling and referral services

- free public seminars and forums for the community and university

- prison education programs and outreach - collaborative projects with campus and community organizations

- consultancy / resource sharing with community-based organizations schools and libraries

- continuing education unit courses (CEU’s) / Act-48 credits

- service learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students

Brief Program History

The Pan-African Studies Community Education Program (PASCEP) was a unique and multifaceted program founded in 1975 by the late Annie D. Hyman, a Temple University graduate and North Philadelphia community activist, who sought to bring the university to the community.

Prior to coming to Temple in 1979, the Community Education Program was held in neighborhood schools, churches and centers. University faculty, most of whom were from the Pan-African Studies Department of the College of Arts and Sciences of Temple University, volunteered time to teach classes. Ms. Hyman later obtained the support of Dr. Odeyo Ayaga, who was then the Pan-African Studies Department chair, to seek Temple University’s sponsorship of the program. In the fall of l979, the university incorporated the Program and PASCEP became the community outreach component of the Temple University Pan-African Studies Department, subsequently renamed the African American Studies Department.

Faculty of Pan-African Studies and other departments continued to volunteer time to teach courses for PASCEP: Dr. Rita Smith, Dr. Tran Van Dinh, Professor Sonia Sanchez, Professor Jacqueline Mungai, Dr. Barbara Hampton, of Pan-African Studies; Dr. Audrey Pittman and Dr. Thaddeus Mathis, of the School of Social Administration; and Dr. Wilbert Roget, of the Department of French and Italian, among others, including Afro musicologist, Harrison Ridley, Jr. of WRTI-FM. Pan-African Studies Department undergraduate students also served as tutors and literacy instructors.

From 1975 - 2008 PASCEP offered over 385 listed courses, 275 lectures and seminars, and over 85 workshops. PASCEP gave a voice to many volunteer faculty members who came from myriad professions and all walks of life. None of this could have been done without the support and direction of the previous administrators: Jacqueline Mungai, Maisha Sullivan-Ongoza, Muriel Feelings, and Yumy Odom. All of PASCEP’s courses were taught by volunteer professionals from the community whose purpose was to educate the community at large and give back to others what they received in knowledge, skill, inspiration and example.

[DISCLAIMER: This is a nonprofit, community based educational initiative, with no official connection to the current program (F2008 - Present) at Temple University. All copyrighted material is used under Fair Use provisions of the Copyright Act.] 

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