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! 

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.

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This updated guidance is effective from Thursday, December 16, 2021 through Friday, January 14, 2022, and provides guidance if you:

• Have COVID symptoms;
• Have been diagnosed with COVID;
• Are concerned about a possible COVID exposure;
• Need to talk with a crisis counselor or advocate; or
• Have other healthcare needs.

While the focus of this guidance is students living on-campus over the break, this guidance also provides resources for other students in Portland.

Read the full story by Aidan D’Anna on the LC Pioneer Log.

This exhibit explores joy and community as forms of resilience for Vietnamese Portlanders by showcasing photographs, writings, and quotes from a diverse range of Vietnamese voices.Curated by L&C students Ben Warner ’22 and Mei Bailey ’22, it is on display on the top floor of Watzek Library through the end of the fall semester and is available to view online.

The LC community will receive an LC Bulletin from the College discussing where we are in terms of COVID cases. There have been a number of COVID notifications recently, and many of you have expressed concern, wondering what the uptick in cases really means.

Click through to read the latest regarding positive COVID cases.

Meet Lori Pompa, Founder and Executive Director or the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program. Find out how L&C is expanding our presence at Columbia River Correctional Institute and get involved.