Each year, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awards $5,000 seed grants to fund the launch or early-stage growth of a project, program, or venture. The Opioid Harm Reduction Initiative run by Livia Cox ’22 and Nick Wells ’20 was one of this year’s winners. This is their second report since receiving funding from the…
In this E2020 Speaker Series Event, Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) Founder and President Eboo Patel, will highlight the findings of IFYC’s recently released IDEALS research on religious and political diversity issues in Higher Education. Wesleyan President Michael Roth will then offer a response. The United States is the most religiously diverse nation in human history…
Wesleyan students are invited to join Government Professors Logan Dancey and Alyx Mark for a post-debate discussion following the first presidential debate. You can join the discussion via this link: http://bit.ly/wes_postdebate. You will need to sign in through your Single Sign On to join the meeting. The event is meant as an opportunity for students to engage in…
Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian and elected representative whose work onstage and in politics is informed by an obsessive knowledge of the reality television format. How does reality tv explain where we are today? What tropes from this genre have now surfaced in how we think, make decisions and move in the world? In this…
Want to help get out the vote this Fall? Federal Work-Study students are invited to apply for the JCCP Voter Engagement Assistant position on Handshake. Join Every Vote Counts—Wesleyan, a student-led, non-partisan voter registration organization! They will be doing Zoom registration help sessions and drop-in hours, tabling with voter registration forms, and maintaining a voter…
A group of faculty, staff, students and community partners are undertaking a nonpartisan mission to make voting a part of the culture both within SUNY Cortland and the Cortland County community. The initiative, Cortland Votes, is part of the nationwide All In Campus Democracy Challenge, which strives to involve college students in American democracy and…
Want to Vote in the 2020 General Election on November 3rd? First, Register to Vote! Register to vote in Middletown (as a Wesleyan student, you are a Middletown resident), or You can register to vote in your hometown by absentee ballot. Want to Vote in Middletown? You Must: Be a U.S. citizen,…
Wesleyan University’s Jewett Center for Community Partnerships announces the JCCP Virtual Youth Engagement Program. Our office supports over ten Wesleyan student-led groups that work with youth virtually during the 2020-2021 academic year. By signing up for the Virtual Youth Engagement Program, our staff will match your child to the appropriate group based on their grade,…
Our Country Our Votes: Young voters weigh in on the election, election coverage, and political discourse today This E2020 event will feature radio producers Graham Griffith and Kaari Pitkin, as well as youth media correspondents from “18-to-29 Now: Young America Speaks Up” – a collaboration between Radio Rookies and YR Media. Graham Griffith…
So You Care About Black Lives? Why Do Your Actions Show Otherwise? This event was conducted on September 4th, which included three wonderful workshops highlighting and giving a platform to black students and POC faculty to express what white/non-black POC can do for the black community. The conversations were very insightful and we hope that…
