Why Communities need For-impact Organizations

Date: Thursday March 20, 2014

Time: 12pm to 1:15pm

Place: Sustainability Hub, 912 Main Street

Join Net Impact on a discussion with leaders of socially-minded non-profit and for-profit organizations. Lunch will be provided following discussion

Panelists: Dr. David Jordan (CEO, Seven Hills Foundation), Eileen Fisher (CEO WomenLEAD), Liz Barney (Recruitment Manager, City Year)

Moderator: Professor Donna Gallo

 

Navigating Precarity: Geography, Gender, and Development by IDCE

Date: Saturday, March 22, 2014

Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m

Place: Fish Bowl at Dana Commons, Clark University

Registration is now open for the IDCE Graduate Student Conference, Navigating Precarity: Geography, Gender, and Development. The conference will address the topic of any situation of potential exploitation or marginalization at the Clark, Worcester, and global levels. Presenters include Clark faculty and graduate students along with community leaders and graduate students from other universities. The schedule for the day is listed below.

Registration is free and available for individual sessions or the whole day. Please register by next Wednesday, March 19.
Information on the conference: http://journalofssj.com/navigating-precarity-geography-gender-and-development/

Registration: http://journalofssj.com/navigating-precarity-conference-registration/

Schedule
9:00 – Registration and light breakfast
9:30 – Welcome
9:45 – Panel: Precarity at Clark

 

Learning from Failure: The Case of Cheating in Higher Education

A talk by James M. Lang

Date: Thursday, March 20

Time: 7pm

Place: Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

According to some educational theorists, our deepest learning experiences are driven by failure. When our current knowledge or skills lead us into failure — and we care about that failure — we become motivated to learn something new. Young children are engaged in a constant cycle of testing their minds against the world, failing, and learning from the experience. Hence, we can envision almost any failure as a possibility for new learning. Professor James M. Lang (Assumption College) suggests cheating in higher education is a failure of the teaching and learning transaction that should open pathways to new learning for students, faculty, and administrators at America’s colleges and universities.