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CIR Proposes Divestment from Coal Assets
Institutions like Wesleyan are meant to make the world a better place. In addition to their educational mission, this also means investing in — and divesting from — a wide variety of other causes. Joli Holmes ’17 writes in with the latest: Wesleyan’s Committee for Investor Responsibility (CIR) is the official body created to consider social…
North End Community Block Party
On Saturday, April 25, take a short walk to Middletown’s North End for a community clean-up and block party! It’s a great opportunity to meet your neighbors and reconnect with those that you may already know, perhaps from Green Street, NEAT, Macdonough Elementary, or Middletown Potluck.
News from reSET, including their Impact Challenge (with intro from PCSE Director Makaela Kingsley)
Wesleyan’s Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship has many partners on campus, locally, and around the world. One of these partners is reSET, the “Social Enterprise Trust” located in Hartford. Their latest e-newsletter has several big announcement, so I’m pasting the full contents here on the ENGAGE blog. I know that off-campus transportation is often the road block…
Enrichment Grant Report: Vanessa Chen ’16
Vanessa Chen ’16 was selected to receive an Enrichment Grant from the Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship for her trip to CGI U, an annual conference at which students, university representatives, topic experts, and celebrities come together to discuss and develop innovative solutions to pressing global challenges. You can read Vanessa’s story below, and visit the PCSE website to…
How to Write a Winning Business Plan and Do a Stellar Presentation (lunch and lecture by Rebecca Knight ’98, 4/20)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents HOW TO WRITE A WINNING BUSINESS PLAN & DO A STELLAR PRESENTATION A workshop and lunch with Rebecca Knight ’98, Freelance journalist, 2015 Kim-Frank Family University Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan, and Harvard Business Review columnist Monday, April 2012-1 p.m.Usdan 108 Lunch will be provided. Please register here. Whether you are seeking funding…
Service-Learning – Fall 2015
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,…
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…
Lessons from a Life in Sex and Ministry (lunch, talk, and Q&A with Debra W. Haffner ’76, 4/22)
The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship presents LESSONS FROM A LIFE IN SEX AND MINISTRY A Talk, Lunch, and Q&A with Debra W. Haffner ’76 Wednesday, April 22 12-1 p.m. Usdan 108 Lunch will be provided. Please register here . As an undergraduate at Wesleyan, Debra Haffner was a vocal activist for social justice and co-founder of…
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…