Interested in global education? Get a travel grant to help finance working in Ghana with the Ayi Owen International School! 2014 For One World Travel Grant Program 2014 Travel Grant Details and Dates: Up to two travel grants are being offered for a 11-24 week duration departing for Ghana in May 2014. Each candidate’s arrival…
Monthly Archives: January 2014
Upcoming Deadlines at the Career Center: Lawyers for Children, Bronx Defenders, and Brighter Dawns
Forensic Social Work Intern, Lawyers for Children: Lawyers For Children (LFC) is one of the leading, not-for-profit organizations in New York City dedicated to protecting the legal rights of children whose parents or guardians have placed them into foster care, and who are the subjects of abuse, neglect, termination of parental rights, adoption, paternity, family…
Fund for the Public Interest Summer Field Managers (apply by 1/31)
Elizabeth Himeles, Fund for the Public Interest‘s Summer Staffing Director, wrote to tell us about this opportunity: Field Manager, Summer Position The Fund for the Public Interest is seeking hard-working individuals with good communication skills and a passion for social change to fill our field manager positions across the country this summer. If you are looking…
Mindfulness Class (Mondays 6-8pm starting 1/27)
Thanks to Rabbi David for sending this to us: MINDFULNESS CLASS@ WESLEYAN: Pathways to Mindfulness and Wholeness Based on the positive student feedback last year, we are going to continue this initiative. This “Wesleyanized” MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) class is a 6 week class that focuses on various techniques of mindfulness practice and spiritual awareness. The…
Wesconnect: Francesca Jones ’12 talks clean tech, Indian startup
We were so excited to see Francesca Jones ’12, Chief Marketing Officer of Greenway Grameen, on the Wesconnect page discussing her work at the Unreasonable Institute: Read the full Wesconnect blog post here.
The Social Entrepreneurship Corps
In browsing the Ashoka U newsletter, we came across some fantastic opportunities for students, including the Social Entrepreneurship Corps. While this program is fee-based, remember that the PCSE offers grant opportunities to subsidize such opportunities. Check out the Patricelli Enrichment Grant and the Wesleyan Summer Experience Grant‘ to help finance what may prove to be…
Upcoming Wesleyan Career Center Deadlines
Use this last week of winter break to finish some applications! Here is a sampling of some of the opportunities with upcoming deadlines from the Wesleyan Career Center: Policy Fellow, Connecticut Voices for Children: Connecticut Voices for Children is seeking a well-qualified and enthusiastic person to fill a full-time two-year policy fellowship. This is a policy position…
The Risks and Rewards of K-12 Educational Entrepreneurism (2/6 at 7 p.m.)
The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life and the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship present The Risks and Rewards of K-12 Educational Entrepreneurism Thursday, February 6 7-8:30 p.m. Allbritton 311 Presented by: Dr. Jack Leonard, Assistant Professor, Department of Leadership in Education, University of Massachusetts Boston America has a long tradition of entrepreneurism, which…
reSET’s Impact Thinking
reSET’s Social Enterprise Design Lab continues with a new topic for discussion; Impact Thinking. Entrepreneurs and organizations working in the social sector face complex community challenges and share a commitment to evaluate and improve the efforts that we make to create change in the community. reSET’s newest Design Lab on Impact Thinking is designed to introduce a series of…
Seats Available in CSPL 345: Entrepreneurship in Education
Still haven’t finalized your spring semester schedule yet? Professor Leonard is offering a course that explores the role of entrepreneurship in education. From the WesMaps description: This course examines the historic roots of entrepreneurship in education, looking at both the business side of entrepreneurism and the more recent emergence of social entrepreneurship. Furthermore, the course…