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…
The Wesley Center for Prison Education launched their spring book drive! The books on the list feature titles such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Theban Plays, and The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling and range in price from $5 to $25.76. Here is a brief history of the Center for Prison Education: In the fall…
Thinking about work study jobs for the spring semester? Here are some opportunities from the Office of Community Service! Pay close attention to each position’s work study eligibility and application instructions. Hiring: Van Drivers For the Office of Community Service —Non-Work Study Eligible— The Office of Community Service coordinates student volunteer opportunities with 21 partner…
This is a cross-post from the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center. In this series, Discovery AfterSchool Instructors share stories from their classes. For more information on our AfterSchool Program, please visit their website. Spring registration is open! Remember that Wesleyan faculty and staff get 50% off the attendance fee! By: Lindsay Behrens Art & Science…
Gain insight into doing well by doing good — become a staff volunteer at the Cause Marketing Forum conference on June 1-2 in Chicago! Wesleyan alumnus David Hessekiel ’82 is Founder and President of Cause Marketing Forum and co-author of Good Works! Marketing and Corporate Initiatives that Build a Better World … and the Bottom Line. Cause Marketing Forum is…
Hartford Food System is seeking a Market Manager to lead the marketing and operations of the June-October North End Farmers Market (NEFM), which will start its ninth season in June 2016. Primary responsibilities, which will start in late March or early April, include farmer, vendor and resident outreach and recruitment, marketing, event planning and the…
This is a cross-post from the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center. In this series, Discovery AfterSchool Instructors share stories from their classes. For more information on our AfterSchool Program, please visit their website. Spring registration is open! Remember that Wesleyan faculty and staff get 50% off the attendance fee! By: Peter Van Siclen In the…
Wesleyan offers many unique opportunities each year to combine academic study with service work. The GIS Service-Learning Laboratory is a .5 credit service-learning course offered concurrently to Introduction to GIS by Professor Kim Diver through the Earth & Environmental Sciences Department. Professor Kim Diver teaches both courses, with the help of Teaching Assistant Shaun Mahmood…
Professor Meredith Hughes taught a service-learning course this fall called Seminar on Astronomical Pedagogy. Course participants studied methods for effectively teaching astronomy to elementary school students. Their semester-long project was to design and present their own presentation using Wesleyan’s portable Starlab planetarium at a local elementary school. I interviewed Hannah Fritze ‘18, Jesse Shanahan MA…
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…
