Professor Barbara Juhasz, Akila Raoul ’16, and Micaela Kaye ’16 took a field trip to the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center last December as a part of Professor Juhasz’s Eye Movement and Reading Lab to explore compound words and how they are created with first- fifth grade students in the after-school program at Green…
Jewett Center for Community Partnerships
SHOFCO Summer Institute
Kennedy Odede ’12 is one of Africa’s best- known community organizers and social entrepreneurs. Kennedy lived for twenty- three of his thirty years in the Kibera Slum, the largest slum in Africa, where he experienced the devastating realities of life in extreme poverty first hand. Still, he dreamed about changing his community. He saved 20…
Get Funded! Apply for Summer Grants
There are three upcoming info sessions about opportunities for summer funding! Stop by for information about the Wesleyan Summer Experience Grant, Named Grants, and the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship Internship Grant. The information sessions will take place: 1/26, 12pm, Usdan 110 1/27, 12pm, Usdan 108 2/2, 12pm, Usdan 110 2/4, 12pm, Usdan 110 Wesleyan…
Cooperative Justice: Alternative Spring Break Trip
Spend a beautiful spring break in the Bay Area of California (Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco) and explore how co-ops engage with social justice movements. How do cooperators respond to gentrification, climate change, racial injustice & more? During the days, you’ll venture into the cities to tour cooperatives in various sectors and understand how different…
Indigenous Middletown: Settler Colonial and Wangunk Tribal History
Wesleyan University hosted a community-wide event, “Indigenous Middletown: Settler Colonial and Wangunk Tribal History,” on Saturday, December 5, 2015 from 10am-12pm.Professor J. Kehaulani Kauanui organized the panel, which included: Lucianne Lavin, Ph.D. – Director of Research and Collections at the Institute for American Indian Studies and author of Connecticut’s Indigenous Peoples Timothy Ives, Ph.D. – Principal archaeologist…
Be a Part of WesAGE!
WesAGE is a Wesleyan student-run program that aims to facilitate relationships and interactions between elderly Middletown residents and Wesleyan students. Through a network of outreach programs, WesAGE allows students and residents to form friendships with social hours, companion programs, social events, on-campus events, and more. Each program takes place at various times. For example, the…
Wednesday: Talking about Race with Jelani Cobb
Jelani Cobb, PhD is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut Professor, an author, and a Staff Writer for the New Yorker. His book, the Substance of Hope: Barack Obama and the Paradox of Progress, was published in 2010 through Bloomsbury Publishing. His post recent…
Apply for TigerLaunch
TigerLaunch is Princeton University’s collegiate entrepreneurship competition, put on annually by the Princeton Entrepreneurship Club. The competition is split across three stages: an online video pitch round, a regional competition in March, and finally Demo Day in April. The first stage of the competition ends on December 1st! To enter, you need to submit a…
Green Street Student Gives Back
This week, a Green Street Teaching and Learning Center student Gianna Sutcliffe, was highlighted in the Middletown Press for her toy drive to supply gifts to children at Yale- New Haven Hospital. After having been the recipient of gifts from the Toy Closet, Gianna wanted to give back. Below is an excerpt from the article,…
Center for Prison Education Hiring Program Manager
The Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan University is hiring a Program Manager. Since 2009, the Wesleyan Center for Prison Education has brought the transformative power of the liberal arts into Connecticut’s prisons, offering incarcerated individuals the opportunity to take Wesleyan courses, taught by Wesleyan faculty and receive college credit for their efforts. By extending…