Faculty

The Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life provides resources for faculty scholarship, teaching, and engagement in community collaborations.

We supply funding for faculty initiatives:

• University Lectures, on topics and in disciplines across the curriculum;
• Research Networks, to support collaborative interaction by faculty over an extended period of time;
• Collaborative Projects, to support collaborative scholarly and curricular projects.

We supply funding for your students:

• Davenport Grants, awarded to sophomores and juniors who have “demonstrated intellectual and moral excellence and a concern for public affairs.” Senior theses projects receive priority;
• The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship offers a variety of grants to support student community engagement initiatives.

We host courses of Wesleyan faculty and visitors:

• Community-Engaged Learning supports the creation and maintenance of service learning courses;
• The Koeppel Fellow in Journalism brings to campus each year one or two distinguished journalists to teach a full semester course;
• We fund and support ad hoc visitor arrangements related to issues of public life.

We host the Civic Engagement Minor.

We sponsor panels and forums:

• The Right Now! series, forums and panels which respond to immediate issues.
• The Hugo L. Black Lecture on Freedom of Expression, annual lecture on topics related to the First Amendment.

We collaborate on a regular basis with the other “Engagement” centers to make connections for faculty with community groups:

• The Jewett Center for Community Partnerships (including the Office of Community Service, and WESU FM Radio);
• Community-Engaged Learning;
• The Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship.