Looking for interdisciplinary classes that think outside the box? Have you been engaged in community service or political action but have never studied it in a classroom? Take a class with the Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life! — Introduction to Financial Accounting (ECON 127) Meets Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:50-4:10 pm. In this…
Spring 2018 Service Learning Classes
Want to take a course that takes you out of the classroom? Want to serve the community while also getting a deeper understanding of the field? Take a Service-Learning course in the Spring! Read student experiences. Contact the individual professors or Peggy Carey Best, Director for Service Learning, with any questions. — Black Middletown Lives:…
Middletown Historical Society Work-Study Position
The Middletown Historical Society is hiring a work-study student for the Spring Semester! This position offers an opportunity to learn what it takes to run a small historical museum, specific duties may include: cataloging of artifacts and manuscripts dealing with Middletown history, research on potential grant opportunities, researching answers to genealogy and general inquiries from…
Wesleyan University to Offer Residency in April 2018 for Artists Impacted by 2017 Hurricanes
This comes to us from Andrew Chatfield, Director of Arts Communication: Wesleyan University to Offer Residency in April 2018 for Artists Impacted by 2017 Hurricanes Proposals from artists in Florida, Texas, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands due on Friday, November 17, 2017 Middletown, Conn.—Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts, in collaboration with the College of the Environment, invites an…
Be The Change Venture Pitch Competition
On Friday, December 1, 2017, at Wesleyan University’s USDAN Student Center, room 108, Be the Change Venture will be hosting a pitch competition for both high school students ($200 grand prize) and college undergraduates ($500 grand prize). We’re looking to support young leaders, with a small grant, who have a bright idea that’s ready to…
PIRG Campus Action
Campus Organizer, Elizabeth Bean, will be on campus 11/01-11/02 to speak with graduating seniors about full-time job opportunities: PIRG Campus Action works to organize, amplify, and empower students as we tackle the issues that shape our future, and we are hiring for full-time positions as Campus Organizers. We need to save the planet, defend the…
Political Caricatures in the Age of Trump
Political Caricatures in the Age of Trump Martin Rowson is a cartoonist whose work appears regularly in The Guardian, The Times, and other British papers, and is chair of the British Cartoonists’ Association. He won the Cartoon Art Trust’s Political Cartoonist of the Year Award in 2000 and 2004, and the Political Cartoon Society’s Cartoon…
Meet the Allbritton Fellows
Each year, a handful of students from the incoming freshman class are selected to be Allbritton Fellows. These students are recognized for their exemplary civic engagement or social impact work prior to coming to Wesleyan. They are matched with a faculty mentor from the Allbritton Center, and are invited to community-building events for Allbritton Fellows…
Hurricane Relief Drive
This comes to us from Ujamaa: Greetings Wesleyan Community, As many of you know, many Caribbean islands are still recovering from the devastation caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria last month. The United States Virgin Islands of St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John are the childhood homes of Professors Rashida Shaw McMahon and Tiphanie Yanique,…
RIGHT NOW! Series: US Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump
US Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump The United States could be on the brink of war in Korea, and America’s commander in chief continues to bluster and threaten while lacking any coherent national security strategy. Not only have President Trump’s words and deeds severely damaged the US standing with allies around the world,…