Topic: diversity

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, [...]

Merchant’s poetry of affinity earns Oregon Book Award nomination

26 November 2007

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  • Engaging our World

(Portland, Ore.)—Amid national and international strife, at a time when cultural divisions and personal differences dominate the public consciousness, Paul Merchant’s Some Business of Affinity offers perspectives about the human experience that supersede those boundaries. Nominated for an Oregon Book Award, Merchant’s collection of poems, translations, and collaborations with visual artists explores the stories of [...]