The weather is turning colder but our learning is heating up! Our final weeks have included visits with two high-ranking White House leaders, an advisor to six Secretaries of State, and our social entrepreneurship coach.
How do you learn to testify before Congress? Argue before the Supreme Court? Defend your PhD thesis? The answer? Come to SEGL and complete the capstone collaborative policy document experience!
Santiago Mendoza (S’12): For about two months I worked as an organizer with NextGen America, a progressive youth voter outreach organization, on their Maine field team.
Just months ago, the Trump Administration brought the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict back into the American limelight by unveiling a controversial peace plan.
Over 300 guests joined us by videoconference this past weekend to celebrate Family/Homecoming Weekend 2020!
Our festivities included:
Friday
“Live look-in” to Ethics and Leadership class featuring a conversation with 2015 Golden Mug Award winner Ghaith al-Omari (recording here ), introduced by Amaani Jetley, DC Fall 2020 student.
The SEGL “Master Class” is perhaps our most challenging and rewarding academic tradition. Several times a term, students present and defend a “deliverable” in front of a distinguished expert who grills, mentors, and evaluates their effort.
In a week dominated by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett, we also took time to focus on what many believe is the defining issue of our generation: climate change.
One of SEGL’s great traditions is Ghosts of Rwanda Night. It’s an early and sober turning point each semester. More important, it provokes some of the term’s most meaningful reflection.
On May 25, 2020, eight minutes and 46 seconds changed history.
Or did they?
The answer to that question depends, in large part, on the actions our leaders take.
How do we know something is true? How do we know something is right? Answering these questions, especially in 2020, requires a special kind of perseverance.
After a summer of anticipation and preparation, our fall 2020 cohort is here!
On arrival day we braved a bit of thunder and lightning with high spirits.
A free online course for the SEGL community 8PM Eastern on Wednesdays in June and July
Course description: George Floyd is dead and America is convulsing.
Will you be ready when you testify before Congress? Argue before the Supreme Court? Defend your PhD thesis? After the past few weeks, each of our students is more prepared for these challenges.
Each semester we leave room for speakers who do not fit neatly into one of our weekly case studies. Some of these sessions blossom into popular new case studies (our Spring 2010 meeting with Lissa Muscatine, for example), and some become the stuff of SEGL legend (President Barack Obama in Summer 2017).
No part of our Constitution has generated more emotion than the Second Amendment. From school shootings to Charlton Heston’s famous rallying cry (“From my cold, dead hands!
In the coming weeks, we will feature blog posts written by current SEGL at ALA students, offering their perspective on what they are learning and living here in Johannesburg.
Three long whistle tweets, four stretched-out syllables (“TOES–ON–THE–LINE!”), and dozens of scurrying first and second grade feet: it’s 4:30pm Wednesday at Thomson Public Elementary School and time for another “Books and Basketball” session!
