The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship and the Wesleyan Career Center present Post-Wes Journeys in (Social) Entrepreneurship Friday, September 27 12 noon Judd 116 Beezer Clarkson ’94, Kagiso Bond ’01, and Erica Gersowitz ’01 will speak about their lives after college. Like many Wesleyan alumni, parts of their work can be called “social entrepreneurship.” Beezer…
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Life After the Bubble: Civic Engagement Beyond Wesleyan
I know it seems a little premature to start talking about life after Wesleyan before you have even moved in to your first dorm room. And in a way, you are completely right. But you know what they say about it being over before you know it? Ask absolutely any person who recently graduated. Heck,…
PCSE Internship Grants in Action: A note from Will Curran-Groome ’14
In March, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awarded internship grants to Wesleyan students planning to spend their summers pursuing experiences in diverse fields of social change. Each grant recipient was asked to report back on his/her work with blog posts and photos. Here’s one, a report from William Curran-Groome ’14, a Government major who…
Civic Engagement 101: Getting Involved in the Classroom
“At Wesleyan, just as much learning takes place outside of the classroom as it does inside.” This was one of the first things I remember hearing when I visited Wesleyan five years ago. After experiencing a Wesleyan education, I realized that this was completely true. However I think the sentiment bears explication. I think it…
Outside the Classroom: Civic Engagement and Extra-Curriculars
So now that you have been welcomed and maybe even met me, I decided to get started by talking about civic engagement in the form you are already probably most familiar with: through extracurriculars. I don’t think I could have fully appreciated the difference between high school and college before starting my first year at Wesleyan.…
ENGAGE Offices Cheat Sheet
Not sure which offices are affiliated with ENGAGE? Here is a graphic that will hopefully help!
Opportunities with Echoing Green and The Foundation for Sustainable Development
Echoing Green has come out with their “August Social Impact Jobs” post and it is full of exciting positions which can take you from New York to Niger. No matter whether you specialize in event planning, fundraising, programming; if your interests are health-related, in the arts, or reproductive justice, this page will have at least…
THEA 384: Introduction to Puppetry
Social justice and…puppetry? Check out this latest course, courtesy of Leslie Weinberg: I’m excited to be offering a .5 credit course (THEA 384) in the Fall 2013 semester on the creation of puppet performance from oral histories and factual events. The course will take advantage of the on-campus presence of Dan Hurlin and Dan Froot’s WHO’S…
Wesleyan to Develop MOOC Based on Social Good Summit
In September, President Roth will be a speaker at the Social Good Summit, one of the premier social entrepreneurship conferences we told you about in this blog post. Fifty-five of today’s global leaders in new media, technology, nonprofits, international affairs and numerous other areas will explore “the power of innovative thinking and technology to solve…
PCSE Seed Grants in Action: A Note from Nina Gerona ’15
In April, the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship awarded five seed grants to Wesleyan students embarking on high-impact projects around the globe. Each grant recipient will be reporting on his/her work with blog posts and photos. Here’s one, a report from Nina Gerona ’15… I’m writing an update now from the Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia, I’m about 12…