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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...

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Peacemaking 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...

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First 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...

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What’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...

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Nesson’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...

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Alternative 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...

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The 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....

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Emersonians 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...

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Emerson 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...

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New 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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