Write Around Portland
Fostering First Year Belonging
A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium
The writing workshop objectives are to:
- Foster a sense of belonging in First Year students
- Share Write Around Portland’s values of respect, writing, and community
- Support Write Around Portland in expanding their institutional impact
Fall 2022 Colloquium Details
-
Tues, Sept. 20th 3:30-5:30
-
Fri, Sept. 23rd 3:00-5:00
-
Tues, Sept. 27th 3:30-5:30
-
Fri, Sept. 30th 3:00-5:00
Student Registration: will open at the start of the Fall semester. Please check back here for more information.
Program Development
91%
Workshop participants who shared that the experience improved their ability to listen to others.
It made me happy
“It made me so happy to be able to do this.”–First Year LC student and Write Around Portland workshop participant, Fall 202194%
Workshop participants who reported feeling more connected to their classmates.
Feel less alone
“The transition to college is really hard. A workshop in the first weeks of college could help kids feel less alone. They could see that other people in their classes are feeling the same way.”–First Year LC student and Write Around Portland workshop participant, Fall 2021In my own words
I learned that I don’t have to write like everyone else. My own writing and my own voice is good enough, I don’t have to compare myself to others or how they express themselves.”
-–First Year LC student and Write Around Portland workshop participant, Fall 2021
VIDEO: How the Humanities Can Save Humanity
In celebration of National Arts and Humanities Month (#NAHM), Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation, moderated a wide-ranging discussion with artists Mel Chin and Allison Janae Hamilton and writer-photographer Emily Raboteau about how the humanities are tackling the interconnected challenges of climate change, public health, and racial injustice, among other pressing social justice issues.
The Lewis & Clark College Center for Community and Global Health is supported in part by a Mellon Foundation grant, Healing Social Suffering Through Narrative. VIDEO: A Community Partner in Write Around Portland
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