The following programs are looking for Wesleyan students to serve as tutors, mentors, and pals to children in Middletown during the spring semester. Register with OCS and email the group coordinators to get involved. Work-Study positions are available! Andre’s All Stars The Middlesex YMCA — thanks to a grant from NBA player Andre Drummond — has created an…
Monthly Archives: February 2015
Open Textbooks, Antibiotics, and Bottle Bills: An Interview with Zach Burns ’14 of U.S. PIRG
One challenging aspect of post-grad life is that there often isn’t as much time for the extra- and co-curricular activities that make ours lives at Wesleyan so rich and rewarding. Fortunately for our dedicated student activists, there are in fact jobs where grads can continue to work on the causes they care about, even to…
Maria Sendra: Building Teams to Scale New Tech Globally
From our friends at Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan:
Social Venture Institute / Hudson Valley
The Patricelli Center has partnered with Social Venture Institute / Hudson Valley to support a weekend retreat for world-changing social entrepreneurs at the renowned Omega Institute of Rhinebeck, NY. From May 15 through 17, nonprofit builders, business leaders, and other innovators will put their heads together to develop creative solutions to their most vexing problems. Participants…
“The Pamoja Project”: Nonprofit Documentary Film Launches Indiegogo Campaign
Kallan Benjamin ’14 is the associate producer of The Pamoja Project, a documentary film that will be shot this summer in Tanzania. The filmmaking team has launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund their flights, baggage fees, and equipment purchase and rental. Donations to the campaign go directly to production via the fiscal sponsor From the Heart Productions, a non-profit organization. Every…
Volunteer Opportunity: Discovery AfterSchool at Green Street During Spring Break
If you plan on sticking around during spring recess — due to sports, your thesis, or just a fondness for America’s most romantic Main Street — consider spending a few afternoons with our friends at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center. Many Wesleyan students volunteer regularly with Green Street’s Discovery AfterSchool Program, and the show must…
The First Amendment, Knowledge, and Academic Freedom: 24th Annual Hugo L. Black Lecture with Robert C. Post
The Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression is an annual event endowed by Leonard S. Halpert, Esq. ’44 and named in honor of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1886-1971). Robert C. Post – Dean of Yale Law School and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law – will deliver this year’s lecture…
Summer Internships with East New York Farms!
Love to work outside? Want to learn more about farming and food? Interested in community development? The Urban Farms Collaborative, now in its second year, is partnering with the incredible East New York Farms! in Brooklyn to offer a flexible summer internship to several interested students. This is an amazing opportunity to learn about food…
PCSE Mentors on Campus This Month
Are you designing an innovative summer project, honing a pitch for your startup, running a social or traditional enterprise, or doing other entrepreneurial work? The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is offering individual and team advising appointments for students who are working on projects or ventures of all kinds. Please note: these sessions are for undergraduates looking…
Creating a Better World: Perspectives on Local and International Development
Over the past 60 years, questions around development have become controversial on both a global and local scale. Development is a powerful way of conceptualizing the world, giving rise to dichotomies between the global North and South, First and Third Worlds, or developed and developing worlds. Such understandings help justify attempts to bring about cultural,…