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By Taylor Sims • December 17, 2025
25 years ago, The Clemente Course partnered with Illinois Humanities to offer free college-level humanities courses to low-income adults in Chicago through The Odyssey Project and Proyecto Odisea . Clemente Executive Director, Dr. Aaron Rosen, recently joined Dulce Maria Diaz (Odyssey Project alumna and founder of the SHE Gallery ) and Dr. Rebecca Amato (Director of Teaching and Learning, Illinois Humanities) on the Federation of State Humanities podcast Humanities= . In this episode, hear how this transformative program changes lives!
By Aaron Rosen • March 5, 2025
Clemente Receives Largest Grant in its History
By Aaron Rosen • February 16, 2024
Calvin University launches new free humanities course inspired by Clemente
By Aaron Rosen • September 22, 2023
Bard’s Clemente Course offers free humanities classes, new chances By Maria M. Silva , Times Union, Sept 19, 2023
By Aaron Rosen • July 7, 2023
"Graduates hail the mind-opening values of the Clemente Course in the Humanities; Codman Square Health Center hosts cultural programming"
By Linnea Lannazzone • October 13, 2022
The grant will fund documentary programming in our new Oakland, CA Clemente Course
Photo of Judity Foster by Sophia Paffenroth
By Linnea Iannazzone • May 19, 2022
Writer Sophia Paffenroth charts the impact of Dorchester Clemente on students and teachers alike
By Linnea Iannazzone • April 11, 2022
When documentary filmmaker Hal Jacobs first heard about Common Good Atlanta, the program that offers Clemente courses to people who have...
By Vive Griffith • February 1, 2022
"From ancient philosophy to modern-day Boston, the search for wisdom and justice finds expression in a gritty new film," the article asserts
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