Entrepreneur and Alumna Travels for Service
By Isabel Thottam After graduating from Emerson College, I took a year off to work and travel. I spent the first half working for an Internet music start-up in Boston while also managing my own...
View ArticlePeacemaking at Red Oak After School Program
Photo courtesy of BCNC By Dakota Damschroder Raised voices and strained silences. Pronounced frowns and angry words. These actions, typically associated with conflict, are steadily falling to the...
View ArticleFirst Daffodils of Spring!
Photo by: Suzanne Hinton Last fall, over 40 Emerson students, faculty and staff planted daffodils along the Boston Common. In the past two years, Emerson has helped plant 1,850 bulbs–and with the first...
View ArticleWhat’s in a Name?
The Office of Service Learning and Community Action has changed its name! It is now the Office of Academic Engagement and Community Action (AECA). Civic engagement, global engagement, and academic...
View ArticleNesson’s New Film Inspired by Teaching Service Learning Course
After a career in corporate film-making, Visual Media and Arts Instructor Bob Nesson decided to pursue film opportunities that he truly cared about. He began teaching film-making at Emerson in a way...
View ArticleAlternative Spring Break in its Thirteenth Iteration At Emerson
ASB 15′ participants serve a home-cooked meal to family clients of the Nazareth Hall transitional shelter in El Paso, Texas. Alternative Spring Break(ASB) is a unique year-long service learning and...
View ArticleThe Power of Partnership
Emerson and CHS students work together as a part of the WLP program Emerson is widely known for strong academic programs in visual media arts, creative writing, and sound production, among others....
View ArticleEmersonians Put Children First with Jumpstart
Jumpstart is a national organization that focuses on improving the reading and writing skills of preschool aged children through the work of dedicated college students and community members. Recent...
View ArticleEmerson College Announces Third Annual MLK Week
Save the date! Emerson College will hold its Third Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. week during the third week of January 2016. The week consists of a series of events and service opportunities for all...
View ArticleNew Service Learning Courses Across the Disciplines
Magda Romanska Associate Professor, Performing Arts Digital and Social Media Dramaturgy This is Romanska’s first time incorporating a service learning component in her class. Her students were...
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