It’s pre-registration time once again! As you plan your schedule for the Fall, take a look at the Service-Learning Center, which offers courses that integrate community service into an academic curriculum. The service component can take many forms depending on the particular course, such as volunteer work, research for organizations, teaching opportunities, and community organizing activities. Back in the classroom,…
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From Student to Teacher: 10 Years at Green Street with Eric Quinones
This year the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center formerly known as “Green Street Arts Center” is celebrating its 10 year anniversary. Throughout its 10 years of existence, Green Street has formed an extremely close-knit community, gathering a variety of teachers and students all expressing their love of art, and now even other subjects such…
We Almost Lost Detroit: a Hopeful Tale About Cars, Crises, Cities, and America
Ron Bloom ’77 – Obama’s “Auto Czar” and one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World – will come to campus on Wednesday, April 8 to discuss lessons learned in his career in politics and finance, particularly in the auto industry bailout and in addressing the City of Detroit’s bankruptcy. After graduating from Wesleyan with…
WESU and the Argus Present: Julie Burstein ’80
Julie Burstein ’80, creator of WNYC’s Studio 360, best-selling author, and TED speaker, will be giving a talk on the power of listening at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, April 8 in the CFA Hall. She will discuss how her experience as a DJ at WESU sparked her passion for finding and telling stories, and will reveal the questions…
Creating Equity in Housing
In the final event hosted by Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan this semester, Erin Boggs ’93 will visit campus to speak about her work with the Open Communities Alliance, a Connecticut-based civil rights organization. She also discuss how gentrification and the segregation of neighborhoods creates unequal opportunities in terms of education, health care, and job prospects, and how we as…
Apply for the 2015-2016 Eco Facilitators Program!
The Wesleyan Sustainability Office is seeking rising sophomores and juniors to serve as Eco Facilitators for the 2015-2016 school year. Eco Facilitators are peer-to-peer sustainability educators who promote energy and water conservation, waste reduction, and other sustainable habits on campus. In the fall, EFs will enroll in a semester-long student forum designed to equip them with…
Heather Gerken on “The Loyal Opposition”
In the final lecture of the Centralization and Decentralization series hosted by the Allbritton Center Collaborative Cluster Initiative, Heather Gerken – J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School – will discuss “the Loyal Opposition”: The term “loyal opposition” is not often used in American debates because we believe that we lack an institutional…
On the Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and Its Suburbs
Jack Dougherty – the Harber Fellow for Spring 2015 in Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life – will deliver a lecture on Monday, April 6 titled “On the Line: How Schooling, Housing, and Civil Rights Shaped Hartford and its Suburbs.” A digital-first, open-access book-in-progress of the same name is available here through Trinity…
CSPL 240: Nonprofits and Social Change
Wesleyan students want to change the world. Understanding how change occurs is a great place to start. Check out Nonprofits and Social Change – a new .5 credit course offered this Fall at the Allbritton Center – to take a closer look at the social sector: This course explores the world of nonprofits and how…
A Renaissance Project: Reclaiming Memory, Movement, and Migration
Join the 2015-2016 Allbritton Center Collaborative Cluster Initiative, a unique offering of Wesleyan’s Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life: The Allbritton Collaborative Cluster Initiative ties together several courses through a common research theme and a culminating project. Courses and the seminar are supplemented by special events, meals together, outside speakers, and team-building exercises.…