Updates

This spring, the Boston Mayor’s Office issued an official commendation to the Clemente Course at Codman Square, celebrating 25 years of free, college-level humanities education for adults in Boston. Linda Dolan, herself a graduate of the program, prompted the mayor's office to consider the honor, and they did. The Boston Clemente Course in Dorchester is supported by Mass Humanities along with several other sites across Massachusetts.

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!

The Clemente Course in the Humanities is proud to announce writer and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay as the first recipient of the Public Humanities Prize.

Elizabeth serves as the coordinator of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, Worcester.

After almost 10 years, Lela Hilton is stepping down as Clemente's Executive Director in Summer 2023. Lela has guided and supported the...

The grant will fund documentary programming in our new Oakland, CA Clemente Course

The Clemente Course in the Humanities mourns the passing of our supporter and friend Grace Glueck. An early advocate of Clemente, Grace...

Shakespeare famously said “all the world’s a stage,” and for the Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative, so is the classroom. Thanks to...