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A Year of Service
I usually agree when people suggest that I have the best job on campus. Emersonians are highly engaged in service across the disciplines and in many capacities. We contribute to community-based...
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WR121-34 Publishes “Heritage | Origenes”
Photo credit: Ryan Catalani You can order a printed version of this anthology for $10. Click here for more information. Orders will close on Sunday, May 6, 2012. Students in Tamera Marko‘s WR 121-34...
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Documentary for Social Action Students Partner with Haley House
Documentary for Social Action is a hands-on learning course taught by award-winning independent filmmaker Bob Nesson. Students work with nonprofits to produce documentary videos used for educational...
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Courses Connect with St. Francis House
This semester, 65 students in service learning courses served at St. Francis House, a nearby organization that supports people experiencing homelessness. Students in Claudia Castañeda’s Power and...
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Alternative Spring Break Program Gains Momentum
All spring breaks are not created equal. Each year since 2001, groups of Emerson College students have decided to spend their break serving communities around Boston and across the country through the...
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Work of 1000 Screening and Talk
Joel Wool ’10, Susan Edwards, Marion Stoddart, and Bob Nesson after the screening.Photo credit: Claude Bartholomew The Nashua River was once one of the ten most-polluted rivers in America. “Marion...
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Departments and Student Organizations Partner to Promote Sustainability
Photo credit: Suzanne Hinton Hydration stations are water fountains designed to eliminate the use of bottled water by accommodating reusable water containers. Since phasing out bottled water in March...
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Students Premiere Haley House Documentary
Four seniors enrolled in VM 420 Documentary for Social Action, a service learning course in the Department of Visual and Media Arts, partnered with Haley House this fall to produce a documentary about...
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Two Professors Receive Innovation Grants for Fall 2012 Semester
The Office of Service Learning and Community Action supports community-based creative projects through Service Learning Innovation Grants. Innovation grants are intended to enrich the liberal arts...
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Service Learning: Looking Back, Moving Forward
Emerson is the only four-year private US college devoted to teaching communication and the arts through the liberal arts. This distinct identity informs all of our endeavors, including service and...
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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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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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