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Welcome to the LUCY Initiative homepage! This site is intended for students looking for information on our offerings and opportunities, professionals in the fields of education, service learning, community development, and the staff and students of urban schools. We hope that this will be an ever-evolving site dedicated to the issues and needs of all people concerned with the Lives of Urban Children and Youth.

LUCY Students Fall 2006 and Winter 2007

LUCY UC 151 in the Winter of 2007

LUCY second semesters students Adam Blank, Kenyon Sivels, LUCY Program Coodinator Rodolfo Palma, Terry Burelson, LUCY Graduate and SOC 389 Student Facilitator Jesse Forester in the Fall of 2006. Adam, Kenyon, and Terry all volunteered at Logan Elementary School each student completing original work with those Elementary students for the second semester. Adam and Terry both went on to continue their work with their students at Logan the following semester with LUCY Independent Study.

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Fall at Logan Elementary

Our relationship with Logan Elementary School, a public school in the southeast side of Detroit has lasted the length of the program.

Eric Ermane at Logan's Library

Sarah Kessler sits with Logan Students she tutored.

Arkisha Howard with tutoring on a Friday afternoon at Locan ES.

The LUCY program aims to create Urban Scholars well versed in how to enter diverse communities and create congnizant social change in their context. We use Detroit as a model of the history, sociology, and issues of Urban settings. Click here for a radio documentary about the Detroit Rebellions of 1967.