From Debra Row, Ph.D., President of the U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development: The Hispanic/Latino cultures will continue to grow in influence in the United States and have the potential to help build a more sustainable future. We at the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium, in collaboration with HACU — the Hispanic Association of Colleges…
Events
When Canada Goose Comes to Wesleyan: Exploring Class and Classism
An important event sponsored by Wesleyan Student Affairs and presented by Class Action: All of us are affected by classism. It permeates our societal structures – on individual, social, cultural and institutional levels. None of us escapes its effects. Yet, classism is invisible in many ways. Most of us have had few opportunities to examine classism in…
Including the Excluded: 35 Years of Trans Life
Including the Excluded – the final event in Ujamaa’s 2015 Black History Month series – will discuss the intersectionality of race, queerness, and displacement, and further conversation on #BLACKLIVESMATTER at Wesleyan. The discussion will take place on Thursday, February 26 at 7:15 PM in 41 Wyllys, room 112. Joining us from Justice 4 Jane: Al Riccio is a transgender…
(Re)Presenting Space: A Portrait of Coal River Valley
In the Summer of 2013, Rachel Lindy ’15, Rachie Weisberg ’15, and Isaac Silk ’14 spent six weeks living in the Coal River Valley of southern West Virginia—an area highly affected by mountaintop removal coal mining and teeming with activist resistance. During this time, we developed a multimedia project that explored the future of the region and…
Joe DiNucci on Surviving Success
From our friends at Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan:
Jason Sorens on Federalism and Secession
The first of four lectures in the Centralization and Decentralization series, hosted by the Allbritton Collaborative Course Cluster Initiative:
Structure Lab (3/3, 6-9 p.m.)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents STRUCTURE LAB Tuesday, March 3, 2015 6-9 p.m. Allbritton 311 Joy Anderson ’89, President of Criterion Institute and instructor of Wesleyan’s “Money and Social Change” course, is a prominent national leader at the intersection of business and social change. She will bring her patented program — Structure Lab…
Corporate Social Responsibility and Strategic Philanthropy: Stories From the Field (Lunch, Talk, and Q&A with Anne Lebleu ’00 on 2/26)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND STRATEGIC PHILANTHROPY: STORIES FROM THE FIELD A Talk, Lunch, and Q&A with Anne Lebleu ’00 Thursday, February 26 12-1 p.m. Allbritton 311 Lunch will be provided for those who register by February 25. During this conversation-style workshop, College of Letters alumna and philanthropy cross-trainer Anne…
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…