Interested in taking a Service-Learning course next year? These courses will be offered in Fall 2017, and more are available in the spring. Contact the individual professors or Peggy Carey Best, Director for Service Learning, with any questions. — Seminar on Astronomical Pedagogy (ASTR 430)Cross-listed with the Civic Engagement Certificate and the Study of Education…
Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan is a completely student-run, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that coordinates and supports educational resources to create programs and highlight existing ones that promote openness, inclusion, and community in tech and social entrepreneurship. Their focus on these principles springs from the troubling lack of diversity in the current entrepreneurship world and the technology industry overall, and…
Applications are now open for two exciting courses that provide a deep dive into the realm of social impact and social entrepreneurship work. Check out the slide decks to learn more, attend an information session, and fill out an application by 11:59 pm on April 12. (click here for a PDF version of the poster…
Green Street Teaching and Learning Center is planning for its Fall 2017 semester of AfterSchool classes for children in grades 1-5. They are looking for class proposals in music, visual art, theater, culture, languages, sign language, dance, movement, nutrition, media, environment, and especially those that integrate science or math in a fun, hands-on way. Interested Wesleyan students…
From Oladoyin Oladapo ’14: Idunnu Studios is a multicultural children’s content creator founded by Oladoyin Oladapo ’14. In November 2016, this team of six Wesleyan women (also including Olayinka Lawal ’15, Ibironke Otusile ’15, Lynn Ma ’16, Maimouna Siby ’16, and Cindy Horng ’17) launched their first collection, Girl to the World – a series of…
With Wesleyan’s spring break fast approaching, Green Street is beginning to make plans for covering the many AfterSchool positions that will be vacated by Wes students who are leaving campus during those two weeks. The following time slots have availabilities; please contact Sandy Guze if you are interested in volunteering: Fri. 3/10/17– 3:30-5:30 pm …
This series, called “Reflections,” features guest posts by students involved at the Allbritton Center (see previous reflections by Alex Garcia ’17 and Natalie May ’18). They may be taking a service-learning class, engaged in community partnership work, DJ’ing at WESU, teaching at Green Street, pursuing the Civic Engagement Certificate, tutoring at the Center for Prison Education,…
Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 PCSE Seed Grant. These student-led social impact projects and ventures will each receive $5,000 in unrestricted funds as well as training, advising, mentoring, incubator workspace, and other resources from the Patricelli Center. Recipients were selected from a pool of finalists…
Intern with an International Healthcare Nonprofit, IndoAmerican Volunteer Networks, with Wes alum Nadeem Modan, MD, Executive Director, and class of 2010. BackgroundIndoAmerican Volunteer Networks is a 501c3 nonprofit organization founded in 2007. We serve as consultants to Indian nonprofits that are seeking to improve and expand the services they provide, with a particular focus on healthcare.…
This series, called “Reflections,” features guest posts by students involved at the Allbritton Center (see a previous reflection by Alex Garcia ’17). They may be taking a service-learning class, engaged in community partnership work, DJ’ing at WESU, teaching at Green Street, pursuing the Civic Engagement Certificate, tutoring at the Center for Prison Education, working on…
