Year: 2023

Ellie Taylor | Sociology 1130: Student Leadership and Service in Higher Education

Harvard campus in the fall.

52 student interns, many belonging to marginalized groups, are employed through internship programs at four offices under the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion branch of the Harvard College Dean of Students Office. This project explores student perception of the roles, their compensation, and their ability to effect change at both an office-wide and institutional level. Generally,…Continue Reading Ellie Taylor | Sociology 1130: Student Leadership and Service in Higher Education

Student Work Spotlight: Stephanie Tang

A painting featuring a green dragon.

Spanish 59: Spanish and the Community, Spring 2020 This project draws inspiration from the theory and imagery of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza to depict the the idea of los intersticios, a space that individuals living between cultures create for themselves, reflecting on their experiences and forming new possibilities or realities….Continue Reading Student Work Spotlight: Stephanie Tang

Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It.

Two students sit in a table with a backpack in front of them that reads "Join the cause! tinyurl.com/clim8pack"

How can students talk about climate change in a way that sparks action, innovation, and change? This spring, a handful of students in GOV 1318, a new course titled “The Great Food Transformation,” took a fresh approach to climate communications. They used digital backpacks to start conversations about the food system and its impacts on…Continue Reading Student Perspective: The Best Way to Spread a Climate Message? Wear It.

Can prisons be abolished? Look at 1973 Walpole takeover

On 50th anniversary, former prisoners, activists recall when inmates ran prison without incident during guard strike The topic proved painful, even explosive. In fall of 1972, inmates at the state prison in Walpole, Massachusetts, peacefully organized themselves into a labor union called the National Prisoners Reform Association. The following March guards went on strike, and…Continue Reading Can prisons be abolished? Look at 1973 Walpole takeover