Topic: community engagement
Video: Traditional storytelling workshop strengthens Native arts
20 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
This spring, Master Storyteller Ed Edmo and Lewis & Clark’s Indigenous Ways of Knowing Program (IWOK) collaborated to offer a traditional storytelling workshop. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] document.getElementById("player1").style.display = ""; var s1 = new SWFObject("http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/flvplayer.swf","player1","400","242","7"); s1.addParam("allowfullscreen","true"); s1.addVariable("height","242"); s1.addVariable("width","400"); s1.addVariable("file","/media/workshop/workshop.flv"); s1.addVariable("image","/media/workshop/workshop.jpg"); s1.addVariable("fsbuttonlink","http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/wp-content/plugins/flv-embed/fullscreen.php?f=/media/workshop/workshop.flv%26r=http://media.lclark.edu/newsroom/2009/05/20/video-traditional-storytelling-workshop-strengthens-native-arts/"); s1.write("player1"); The participants, ranging in age [...]
Podcast: Students find job market advantage in liberal arts, global education experience
5 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Given the dual forces of a tightening job market and increased performance expectations placed on entry-level positions, students entering the workforce this year will face a more challenging transition than any in recent years. As Lewis & Clark students enter the workforce, their focus on seeking global understanding and creating new knowledge aligns them with industries’ [...]
Integrated career counseling prepares students to enter troubled economy
5 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
Despite news coverage’s emphasis on the country’s economic downturn and school’s increasing budget pressures, school districts are interviewing and building up their applicant pools. “It can be difficult to offset the main stream media’s messages about the economy and the reality that districts are facing right now,” said Sharon Chinn, executive director of Educational Career and [...]
Senior to improve global health systems with mobile technology
4 May 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
Isaac Holeman ’09 is heading to Africa after graduation. Far from a safari vacation, Holeman will start work in Malawi with FrontlineSMS:Medic, a venture he co-founded to support community health workers in the developing world with mobile technology. A biochemistry and molecular biology major, Holeman has earned numerous academic honors in his time at Lewis & [...]
Slideshow: Counseling Psychology Professor and PTSD expert Andraé Brown travels to Iraq
9 February 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
After years of researching the legacy and impact of violence on marginalized populations—and on black males in particular—Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology Andraé L. Brown readily accepted rapper David Banner’s invitation to join his USO tour of Iraq and Kuwait last month. Click to view photographsAs roommates in graduate school, Brown and Banner became friends upon [...]
Video: Student-led grant program supports student research
7 January 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
For more than a quarter of a century, Lewis & Clark College students have dedicated a portion of their student fees to support the work of their peers. The program, managed by the Student Academic Affairs Board (SAAB), provides grants to students to attend conferences, conduct research, bring scholars to campus, and support student art [...]
Graduate school to partner with Muslim Educational Trust
12 December 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
Lewis & Clark Graduate School of Education and Counseling is partnering with the Muslim Education Trust (MET), a nonprofit organization that promotes greater understanding of the Islamic community through education and outreach initiatives. The partnership will offer two scholarships to students in the Muslim community who wish to become licensed teachers, counselors, or education administrators. Scott [...]
Slideshow: Lewis & Clark professor creates first master’s degree program in war-torn Afghanistan
25 November 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
Every year, Lewis & Clark Professor of Education Zaher Wahab leaves Portland to devote four months of service to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. Early this year, he worked with Kabul Education University to create Afghanistan’s first master’s degree program for teacher education faculty. The first cohort is made up of eleven men and eleven [...]
Video: Multi-institutional exchange model trains next generation of environmental leaders
12 November 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
As environmental issues and the demand for solutions grow, Jim Proctor, professor and director of Lewis & Clark’s environmental studies program, is working to create a national model for training the next generation of environmental policy makers. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and [...]
Law School awarded grant for clinical law project on affordable housing
18 September 2008
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—The Collins Foundation has awarded a grant totaling $180,000 to support the Community Development, Nonprofit and Affordable Housing Practicum, a joint clinical law project of the Lewis & Clark Law School and the Community Development Law Center. The practicum project serves community development corporations and nonprofits focused on economic development and affordable housing issues [...]