Topic: public service
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 & [...]
Video: Lewis & Clark Law School expands loan repayment program for public service lawyers
27 February 2009
- Living Portland
The Lewis & Clark Law School has one of the highest rates of public-service participation in the country, with more than one out of three graduates choosing to work in the public service sector. A number of programs and projects at the law school, such as legal clinics, externships, and the Public Interest Law Project [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Video: Law student prepares for career in public service
3 September 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Living Portland
(Portland, Ore.)—After devoting a decade of her life to volunteering at homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and libraries, Lewis & Clark law student Ginger Beck realized that practicing public interest law was the best possible expression of her commitment to community service. Toward that goal, Beck spent her summer researching legal cases for the Oregon Law Center [...]
Dean Klonoff collaborates on initiative to reform class-action lawsuits
15 July 2008
- Advancing Knowledge
- Engaging our World
(Portland, Ore.)—For four years, Robert Klonoff, dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, has been working with a handful of top legal scholars, judges and practitioners from across the country on a project designed to improve the legal process of class action lawsuits. When the project is finished, it could dramatically change the way class-action [...]