Topic: diversity
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 [...]
Video: Students capture global experiences
25 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
For many Lewis & Clark students, moving to Portland, Oregon is just one more stop on a lifelong international journey. With one of the country’s most robust programs for Third Culture Kids (TCKs) and Global Nomads, Lewis & Clark takes pride in its commitment to international students. Today, approximately 120 international students from six continents [...]
Video: Symposium offers unique forum for gender issues discussion
8 March 2009
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
Now in its 28th year, the Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium brings together artists, activists, and academics to cover a wide range of gender issues including the intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The three-day symposium, titled “Poverty, Property, and Personhood: Challenging Gender Injustice,” includes two keynote speakers and nearly 20 other presentations, panel [...]
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 [...]
Podcast: First-year student navigates intersections of faith, culture, and education
19 November 2008
- Engaging our World
Each year, Lewis & Clark enrolls more than 100 Third Culture Kids, or students who spent a significant amount of time living abroad because of their parents’ work. First-year student Louise Trueheart, a self-identified TCK, was born in Washington, D.C., raised in Toronto and then Paris, before she attended high school in Connecticut. Through all of [...]
Portland Mayor-elect to speak at Lewis & Clark
25 September 2008
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Portland Mayor-elect Sam Adams will speak at Lewis & Clark on Oct. 7 as part of National Coming Out Week. Currently serving as a Portland city commissioner, Adams will assume mayoral duties in January, 2009. National Coming Out events are designed to promote public awareness of issues that affect people who identify as lesbian, gay, [...]
Egypt trip delivers lessons in culturally sensitive counseling practices
14 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Lewis & Clark graduate students gained invaluable intercultural experience for future work in family therapy through a new partnership between the Graduate School of Education and Counseling and Menoufiya University (MU) in Shebin El-Kom, Egypt. Click to view photographs Traveling to Egypt in March, eight Lewis & Clark students participated in an immersion course at MU, [...]
Student to hone leadership skills in Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute program
12 May 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—Dante Perez is one of 32 college students from across the country to earn an internship with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute . The sophomore international affairs major will spend this summer in Washington, D.C., working in a congressional office and honing his public leadership skills. A native of Uruapan, in the state [...]
“Muslim malice” commentary stirs Portland community
14 January 2008
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—Tom Krattenmaker, associate vice president for public affairs and communications and professional writer, offers regular commentary on religion and public life for USA Today and The Oregonian. In his latest op-ed, Krattenmaker points to anti-Muslim rhetoric as not only demeaning to Muslims but destructive to U.S. political discourse. His challenge to all Americans to [...]
Dean of Students advocates for LGBT-friendly admissions practices
28 November 2007
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—W. Houston Dougharty, dean of students, will present at a first-of-its-kind national college admissions fair dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth on December 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dougharty will discuss what questions LGBT high school students should consider in looking for a supportive campus community. Dougharty is a national expert on student affairs, [...]