Write Around Portland
Fostering First Year Belonging
A Center for Community and Global Health Colloquium
“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
The writing workshop objectives were 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 2023 Colloquium Details
The Write Around Portland Fostering First Year Belonging Workshops have concluded for Fall ’23.
Read below for program summaries and student feedback from past years and we will share findings from this year’s workshops on this page in the coming months.
Program Development
- “It made me so happy... to be able to do this.”–First Year LC student and Write Around Portland workshop participant, Fall 2021
- “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
- “People opened up
... It was a setting that fostered creativity, trust.”
–First Year LC student and Write Around Portland workshop participant, Fall 2021
- “I had an amazing time.”
–First Year student participant in Write Around Portland workshops, Fall 2022.
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Workshop participants in Year 2 who reported feeling more connected to their classmates.
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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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
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Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell
Director
jerusha@lclark.edu
Carolyn L. Zook
Associate Director and Pre-Health Advisor
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Alexis Rehrmann
Community Engagement Coordinator
alexisr@lclark.edu
Community and Global Health
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road MSC 25
Portland OR 97219