Topic: economic development
Slideshow: Student creates artisan collective for India’s City of Widows
18 May 2009
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- Engaging our World
With support from a prestigious grant program, Katie Walter ’09 will devote her summer to promoting peace in a small community in India. The international affairs major, who has long revered Indian culture and Hindu philosophy, traveled to India independently and through a Lewis & Clark overseas program during the past few years. Inspired by [...]
Blog: Professor of Education helps normalize conditions in Afghanistan
2 April 2009
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- Engaging our World
Education Professor Zaher Wahab splits his time between Lewis & Clark and Afghanistan, devoting six months of service each year to the Afghan Ministry of Higher Education. He is dedicated to helping normalize conditions in Afghanistan, and he believes “quality, equal and universal education is the key to establishing peace, security, democracy, harmony, and a [...]
Slideshow: Lewis & Clark professor creates first master’s degree program in war-torn Afghanistan
25 November 2008
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- 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 [...]
Conference addresses economic development challenges facing indigenous communities
18 April 2008
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—On April 4, Lewis & Clark hosted Indigenous Economic Development: Sustainability, Culture and Business, a conference for professionals and leaders from the economic development and legal communities. Economic development for Indian tribes and their citizens is one of the most important topics in Indian law and policy today. Indian gaming gets all the headlines [...]