Architecture Professor Mike Andrejasich, who also serves as associate dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts, has been involved in the University of Illinois East St. Louis Action Research Project almost since the UI began working in East St. Louis 20 years ago.
His daughter, Elizabeth, a student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, first remembers going to East St. Louis in middle school. As a UI undergraduate, she created a Saturday playwriting program for middle school girls there.
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