Topic: faith
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 [...]
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, [...]
Lewis & Clark takes center stage in faith-and-culture dialogue
31 March 2008
- Engaging our World
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—In February, Lewis & Clark hosted the first college-campus screening of a forthcoming documentary exploring the collision of faith and culture in America, titled “Lord, Save Us from Your Followers.” Sponsored by the chapel office and the Christian student group Agape, the special event welcomed secular and religious students to a discussion with producer-director [...]