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Teach a Digital Arts Class at Green Street

The Green Street Arts Center is looking for a student instructor to lead a semester-long course related to computer-aided art once a week from 4:15 to 5:15 pm for students in grades 1-3 or 3-5.  This is a paid position. For more information or to discuss your course idea, contact Green Street Director Sara MacSorley at…

Consensus Decision Making: An Update from CSPL 210

What will CSPL 210 do with the $10,000 they received from the Learning By Giving Initiative? Here’s the latest update from Bobbby Cunningham ’15: The Money and Social Change class has made great progress since we first received our initial list of 275 nonprofits six weeks ago, and we’ve learned quite a bit about consensus decision…

Marathon Grant Making: An Update from CSPL 210

Sam Rispaud ’15 writes in with another update from Money and Social Change, a service-learning course taught by Professor Joy Anderson this fall: Today was an exciting week for the Money & Social Change class. By partnering with the Learning By Giving Foundation our class is given $10,000 to give to four non-profits in Middlesex county. This Saturday, the class…

Vote for WesAGE in Zipcar’s Students with Drive Competition

An exciting announcement from WesAGE co-coordinator Sheri Reichelson ’16: WesAGE (Wesleyan’s Alliance for Generational Exchange) has been selected as a Finalist for the November 2014 Students with Drive program that awards ZipCar credit to college community service groups. Voting for the finalists starts November 4th and ends November 11th at midnight, and the final winner will receive…

Alumni Needed for Panel on Careers for the Common Good (11/19)

Students are interested in hearing from alumni in a wide range of social impact fields. Pictured here: Joshua Kagan ’01 (Senior Analyst at Carbon War Room), John Perry Barlow ’69 (Managing Partner, Algae Systems), and Corey Block ’01 (Urban Farm Coordinator at Treasure Island Job Corps) speaking at Impact Hub San Francisco in October 2012.…

Tutor at Keigwin Middle School

Help make middle school a bit easier by tutoring at Keigwin, home to nearly every sixth-grader in Middletown. A brand new OCS program will be bringing volunteers from Wesleyan to the middle school to provide homework help to small groups of students after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2pm to 4:15 pm. You are welcome to help out on…

Volunteer with Wesleyan’s Center for Prison Education

Interested in volunteering with Wesleyan’s college in prison program as a Tutor or Research Intern? The Center for Prison Education is currently accepting applications for Tutor and Research Intern positions during the spring semester! Come to the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education Student Group’s general interest meeting this Tuesday (TODAY!) at 9:00 pm in the Allbritton 318 to learn…

Choice: A Case Study in Education and Entrepreneurship

Visiting professor and Harber Fellow Jack Dougherty brings a fascinating new course to Wesleyan’s Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life this spring. In CSPL 341, students will examine the controversial intersection of education and entrepreneurship not just by reading theory and research on the subject, but also by looking at the effects of recent policy changes…