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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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