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.

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Pathway through trees on the Lewis & Clark campus.

Inside-Out Instructor Training: Faculty Grant

We are now taking Inside-Out Instructor Training Faculty Grant Applications for Summer 2024! 

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Image of a sea shell and the word Listen.

Listen 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 Major

Faculty 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. 

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Molly Gibbons, LC student

Interning 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, WAP
Brown journal with the words respect. writing. community in a green circle on the cover.

Write 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.

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Image from Spring '23 Inside-Out class performance

Spring ’24 Prison Exchange Class Performance from the Inside-Out

Inside-Out Prison Exchange Class
TH238 Performance from the Inside/Out
Fridays 12:45-3:45 pm, Spring 2024
Class held at the Columbia River Correctional Institution
Taught by Associate Professor Rebecca Lingafelter
This 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. 
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I Think of You performance at Portland Center Stage.

Inside-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.

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Molly Robinson, Associate Professor of French

Cry 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!
L&C's Intent to Apply Program is a resource for current L&C students and alumni who are seeking to apply to medical school w...

Taking the Pain Out of Medical School Applications

Lewis & Clark’s Intent to Apply Program helps students and alumni submit competitive applications for medical school.

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Roosevelt High School students with Lewis & Clark mentors and Professor Mitch Reyes during the inaugural College Success Program in J...

Helping Roosevelt High Schoolers Visualize College

Over the summer, Lewis & Clark undergraduates mentored Roosevelt High School students in the first year of the College Success Program, founded by Professor Mitch Reyes and supported by the Mellon Foundation.

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Molly Robinson, Associate Professor of French

From the Inside-Out: 5 Questions for Molly Robinson

In Summer 2022, Molly Robinson, associate professor of French, completed Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program’s Instructor Training thanks to a faculty grant from the Mellon Foundation and the Center for Community and Global Health.

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Learning to Listen to Patient’s Stories

Narrative medicine programs teach doctors and other caregivers “sensitive interviewing skills” and the art of “radical listening” to improve patient care. The New York Times reports in this story that narrative medicine is now taught in some form at roughly 80 percent of medical schools in the United States.
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Can You Spot Skin Cancer? L&C Psychologists Bring Their Expertise to Public Health Campaign

In collaboration with Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Oregon, psychology professors Jerusha and Brian Detweiler-Bedell conduct research to help Oregonians identify and respond to the risk of melanoma.

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   Dr. Pamela Schaff discusses narrative medicine at USC's Keck School of Medicine as Chioma Moneme, a student in the class of 2020, look...

How Doctors Use stories to Cope with COVID

Narrative Medicine is a discipline in which doctors and nurses use the principles of literature and art to better understand patients’ stories and incorporate them into their practices, by asking many questions and carefully listening to their patient’s answers. 

In Los Angeles, Narrative Medicine is now being taught at USC Keck School of Medicine and at the new Kaiser Permanente medical school.

Read the LA Times coverage
Four students, in jackets and backpacks, standing outside on campus and chatting.

Consent Conversations Workshops

We are inviting you to join in on discussions about various topics on consent education! We have three exciting workshops to get excited about.

Come see student fiber artists at work on the Exquisite Gorge project!

Come see students in Studio Art/Art History and Environmental Studies working with fiber arts on a collaborative project with artist Amanda Triplett. The studio space is Fields 206 and is open Mondays/Wednesdays, 11:30-2:30.  Project encompasses collection of climate data from the Columbia Gorge.

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Stacks of journals for Narrative Scribe Training participants.

Bringing Empathy to Health Care Through Narrative Scribe Training

L&C’s Center for Community and Global Health offers Narrative Scribe Training, which emphasizes the importance of listening and storytelling to health care teams.
Original art by Maria Blaszkiw, current art therapy student

Art Therapy Hosts Second Open Studio for Ukrainian Community on May 1

Art therapists will be present at the event on Sunday, May 1, 2022 to facilitate the process as we set our hearts and wishes in motion by creating art inspired by Ukrainian traditions. All art supplies will be provided and interpreters will be available.
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Tiny House Club members

Tiny House Emerges From Big Vision

L&C’s student-led Tiny House Club is building a sustainable dwelling for a Portland-area nonprofit.

CAS Campus Mask-Optional Policy Effective April 2

Mask wearing on the CAS campus will be optional beginning Saturday, April 2, in most circumstances.
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