Year in Review
2024: A Year to Remember
As the calendar year draws to a close, we’ve compiled a sampling of top stories from the undergraduate college, the graduate school, and the law school.
Top Stories
Place-Based Learning
From Trash to Treasure: Creating Art From Waste
Cara Tomlinson’s Art and Ecology class uses waste materials from around Portland to create beautiful and meaningful works of art. This course offers a fresh approach to creative practice, merging art and ecology to help students respond to the climate crisis, explore the agency of materials, and build connections to place.
Belonging and Connection
First-Year Experience Positions Students for Success
Transitioning into college can be an emotional, busy time for students and their families. Lewis & Clark’s First-Year Experience team aims to create a smooth transition by laying the groundwork for a successful first semester.
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.
Community Connections
“Art at the Center”
The Lewis & Clark Art Therapy program has released a documentary film exploring its expansion into the Community Counseling Center and discussing the benefits that the new space has to offer to both graduate students and community members alike.
Spotlight: Mental Health and Well-Being
Lewis & Clark Graduate School’s newly expanded Community Counseling Center serves as a training ground for counseling students and a thriving mental health resource for Portland.
The nearly $2 million Oregon Health Authority grant will support graduate students pursuing degrees in counseling, therapy, and school psychology over the next two years.
In a Seattle Times opinion piece, Robin Holmes-Sullivan, president of Lewis & Clark and a clinical psychologist, addresses how parents and caregivers can prepare their students for the“monumental transition” to college while supporting their autonomy and growth.
L&C’s hybrid school psychology graduate program increases access to a fully accredited program, specifically in rural Oregon districts where the school psychologist shortage is felt most acutely.
Lewis & Clark’s Graduate School of Education and Counseling received a $1.1 million federal grant to train school psychologists to effectively support students in high-need rural and urban districts.
Lewis & Clark’s Mental Health Validation Program (MVP) brings counseling services, mental health workshops, student-athlete peer support groups, and more to the college’s student-athletes.
For first-year students interested in public interest law, 1LIFE is a valuable opportunity to gain hands-on legal experience, receive mentorship from experienced professionals, and establish a network of connections.
At a recent campus event, community members learned how to practice the 3-Minute Mental Makeover, a quick writing exercise designed to reduce stress and improve communication and connection with others.
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Student Engagement
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From the Magazine
Advantage: Lewis & Clark
The first phase of Lewis & Clark’s strategic planning effort sets the stage for institutional distinction. The new process is iterative and dynamic— responsive to a world that won’t stand still.
Data Processors
In a cross-school collaboration, Professors Greta Binford and Liza Finkel prepare middle and high school teachers to weave real-world data science into their environmental curricula.
Shifting Gears
After a remarkable 51-year career in politics, Rep. Earl Blumenauer BA ’70, JD ’76 prepares to retire, leaving behind a sprawling legacy reflecting his commitment to livable communities, transportation, the environment, cannabis legalization, animal rights, health care, and more.