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.
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Immersive Learning
How Migrant Stories Are Told
A new course, Playing at the Border: Migration and Art, examines how migrant and refugee stories are told in film, theatre, and visual art, providing students with opportunities to engage directly with Portland’s immigrant communities.
Come to Narrative Medicine Skills Training!
With support from the Mellon Foundation, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) is developing Narrative Medicine Skills Training.
Narrative Medicine Skills Training introduces the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation, and affiliation and develops participant skills of listening and witnessing. We will reflect on how listening and witnessing can be applied to stories of health, illness and healing in diverse healthcare settings to improve care and support healing.
Training is open to students, health professionals, faculty, staff and community members– anyone curious about the practice of narrative medicine.
Narrative Medicine Skills Training
Saturday, February, 22
8:45-3:30
in-person and on-campus
Smith Hall
Lewis & Clark College
Register Here
Health Coverage: How Potential Providence Strike Impacts Patients
Carolyn Zook, Associate Director at the L&C Center for Community and Global Health is featured in this KGW8 story on the possibility of healthcare strikes in Oregon. She shares her expertise alongside L&C Law School Prof. Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
WATCH HERE
Experiential Learning
Health + Humanities Internships = Impact
The Center for Community and Global Health offers funding for health and humanities internships with Portland-area partners. Whether over the summer or during the school year, L&C students benefit from paid internships that turn career exploration into action.