If you plan on sticking around during spring recess — due to sports, your thesis, or just a fondness for America’s most romantic Main Street — consider spending a few afternoons with our friends at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center. Many Wesleyan students volunteer regularly with Green Street’s Discovery AfterSchool Program, and the show must…
The First Amendment, Knowledge, and Academic Freedom: 24th Annual Hugo L. Black Lecture with Robert C. Post
The Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression is an annual event endowed by Leonard S. Halpert, Esq. ’44 and named in honor of the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice (1886-1971). Robert C. Post – Dean of Yale Law School and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law – will deliver this year’s lecture…
Summer Internships with East New York Farms!
Love to work outside? Want to learn more about farming and food? Interested in community development? The Urban Farms Collaborative, now in its second year, is partnering with the incredible East New York Farms! in Brooklyn to offer a flexible summer internship to several interested students. This is an amazing opportunity to learn about food…
PCSE Mentors on Campus This Month
Are you designing an innovative summer project, honing a pitch for your startup, running a social or traditional enterprise, or doing other entrepreneurial work? The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship is offering individual and team advising appointments for students who are working on projects or ventures of all kinds. Please note: these sessions are for undergraduates looking…
Creating a Better World: Perspectives on Local and International Development
Over the past 60 years, questions around development have become controversial on both a global and local scale. Development is a powerful way of conceptualizing the world, giving rise to dichotomies between the global North and South, First and Third Worlds, or developed and developing worlds. Such understandings help justify attempts to bring about cultural,…
Allbritton Talks: Do-Gooders Abroad
Many people, particularly Westerners, travel to the developing world each year to volunteer with NGOs and assist communities in need. However, critics of “voluntourism” warn that the self-satisfaction, thrill, and social media attention gained through service may come at the cost of real progress and make a spectacle of poverty. Others defend the good intentions…
Free ‘Selma’ Screening and Discussion
Update: An additional screening will be held tomorrow (Wednesday, February 11) at 7:45 PM. Pick up a ticket from Sara Wadlow in Allbritton 116 by 5pm today. The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, with the support of the Center for Community Partnerships, the Office of Equity and Inclusion, and the Office of…
Join the ENGAGE Team as a Communications Assistant
Work for Wesleyan’s Center for Community Partnerships and support the various parts of CCP — WESU, Center for Prison Education, Green Street Teaching and Learning Center and OCS — by developing content pieces (e.g. blog posts featuring programs or students, Q&A’s with community partners, newsletters), flyers for events, social media and other promotional materials, and by researching how…
Working for Social Change: Corps Round-Up (Updated 2/10)
The school year has only just begun, but graduating students are already feeling the pressure to plan for the future. Although some organizations won’t start to pick from our fine stock of seniors until the spring or summer, it can be tough to shake off that gray cloud of post-grad uncertainty in the meantime. On…
Investment Hypotheses for Entrepreneurs: Private Equity Case Studies in the Solar Panel Industry
From our friends at Kai Entrepreneurship Wesleyan: