Catalog 2007-2008
Graduate School of Education and Counseling

Please Note: This is the 2007-2008 catalog. It is now out of date, and included here only for archival purposes. Please use the current edition. Thank you.

Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation

The Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation advocates for the actualization of community ideas. Our programs support clear identification of questions facing local and global communities, and engagement with these issues by members of those communities with the assistance of professionals and scholars. Our hope is that such interaction will reveal fresh, innovative, and useful responses to challenges.

For more information about the Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation, please visit graduate.lclark.edu/org/orcenter.

The Indigenous Ways of Knowing Project

In the fall of 2005, the Ford Foundation awarded Lewis & Clark College funding to support the development of an innovative Native American studies program. An initiative of the graduate school's Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation and designed in collaboration with its academic departments, this project seeks to increase representation for historically marginalized people among professional educators and counselors.

In an increasingly multicultural and complex world, the Indigenous Ways of Knowing Project will help prepare native and nonnative teachers, counselors, and related community leaders for positive and informed leadership roles. Options will include advanced studies in indigenous life in the new millennium, supervised field experiences, Core classes (including CORE 506, CORE 507, and a course on great tribal leaders), and topical seminars related to degree specializations.

For more information about this project, please contact the Oregon Center for Inquiry and Social Innovation at 503-768-6099 or center director Mary Clare at clare@lclark.edu.