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Health + Humanities Community Connections: Faculty Grant
Up to three CAS faculty will be awarded Health + Humanities Community Connections Faculty Grants to support courses that include new community partnerships in health + humanities. Applications are open now!
Hiring: Visiting Assistant Professor of Public Health
The Center for Community and Global Health at Lewis & Clark College invites applications for a full-time, visiting position to begin August 2024. Duties include teaching five semester-long undergraduate courses in public health/epidemiology each academic year (in-person) and contributing to the Center for Community and Global Health’s co-curricular programming.
community engagement, inside-outInside-Out Instructor Training: Faculty Grant
We are now taking Inside-Out Instructor Training Faculty Grant Applications for Summer 2024!
narrative scribe trainingListen to This: A Poem
You don’t have to be ready,
but you can be loved…
A poem spoken into collective being by Narrative Scribes at Lewis & Clark College, February 11, 2023 and scribed by Alexis Rehrmann.civic engagement, faculty, History Major, History Minor, human rights, humanities, inside-out, interdisciplinary, law, Political Science Major, research, Sociology and Anthropology MajorFaculty book release: “A Wall Is Just A Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in 20th Century America” by Reiko Hillyer
Please join us in congratulating Professor of History and Department Chair Reiko Hillyer on the upcoming publication of her latest book, A Wall is Just a Wall: The Permeability of the Prison in 20th Century America (Duke University Press, February 16, 2024). Influenced by her work teaching in the Inside-Out program, Hillyer traces the decline of practices that used to connect incarcerated people more regularly to the free world.
Strengthen Narrative Competency with Narrative Scribe Training
With support from the Mellon Foundation, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) is developing Narrative Scribe Training.
The curriculum builds on narrative medicine practices of listening and witnessing. The training develops skills of listening deeply to stories of health, illness, and healing and reflecting on how listening and witnessing can contribute to social change. Narrative Scribe Training will be held in-person on-campus at Lewis & Clark College on Saturday, February, 24 and registration is now open.
inside-outInterning at Inside-Out: Six Questions for Molly Gibbons
With funding from the Mellon Foundation, LC student Molly Gibbons completed the inaugural Inside-Out Internship over Summer and Fall of 2022. Molly is a History major and Hispanic Studies minor from Missoula MT who plans to graduate in Spring ’24.
“This internship was one of the most informative and valuable work and educational experiences I have had,” she said. Read on to find out why.Faculty Learning Sessions: Community Engagement with Campus Compact
Join faculty from across institutions, disciplines, and varying levels of community engagement expertise to participate in an interactive learning community. Drawing on Welch and Plaxton-Moore’s The Craft of Community-Engaged Teaching and Learning (2019), the six Faculty Learning Community meetings will foster faculty learning about integrating community-engaged principles, practices, and pedagogies into their work.
Portland, WAPWrite Around Portland Offers Writing Workshops for First-Years
To foster a greater sense of belonging among first-year students, L&C’s Center for Community and Global Health is partnering with Write Around Portland to offer a series of writing workshops.
inside-outSpring ’24 Prison Exchange Class Performance from the Inside-Out
Inside-Out Prison Exchange ClassTH238 Performance from the Inside/OutFridays 12:45-3:45 pm, Spring 2024Class held at the Columbia River Correctional InstitutionTaught by Associate Professor Rebecca LingafelterThis is a 200-level Theatre class held at Columbia River Correctional Institute exploring the techniques and applications of autobiography to performance. It is an integrated class of 15 undergraduates and 15 incarcerated students who will learn together as peers.Because of the special nature of this class and limited space,
Outside student applications are now closed for the Spring ’24 Inside-Out course.inside-outInside-Out Prison Exchange Piece Performed at Portland Center Stage
Professional actors, in collaboration with faculty and students from Lewis & Clark, presented I Think of You, a variation on the final theatre project of students in the spring Inside-out Prison Exchange course.
inside-out, World Languages MajorCry of Freedom: New Inside-Out Prison Exchange Course
Prof. Molly Robinson will be teaching a new course this Fall at Columbia River Correctional Institution as part of the Lewis & Clark College Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. All interested students should apply! - EVENTSMay 10: All Day
Applications Close Soon! Health + Humanities Summer Internship Funding
Lewis & Clark students who have a Summer ’24 internship in health + humanities are eligible to apply for funding to support their work.
Up to three students will be awarded funding to support internships in health + humanities with organizations that contribute to healing through narrative. We encourage you to think broadly and boldly about this definition!Applications for Summer ’24 internship funding close Wednesday, May 15, 2024. Details and application materials are at the link below.
Support is made possible by the Center for Community and Global Health and a grant from Mellon Foundation.
Community and Global Health is located in room 307 and 309 of JR Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 25
email communityglobalHEAL@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7636
Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell
Director
jerusha@lclark.edu
Carolyn L. Zook
Associate Director and Pre-Health Advisor
carolynzook@lclark.edu
Alexis Rehrmann
Community Engagement Coordinator
alexisr@lclark.edu
Community and Global Health
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 25
Portland OR 97219