Updates

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!
Black and white headshot of author Phil Klay
By Taylor Sims August 8, 2025
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.
By Aaron Rosen August 17, 2023
Elizabeth serves as the coordinator of the Clemente Course in the Humanities, Worcester.
By Vive Griffith February 28, 2023
After almost 10 years, Lela Hilton is stepping down as Clemente's Executive Director in Summer 2023. Lela has guided and supported the...
By Linnea Lannazzone October 13, 2022
The grant will fund documentary programming in our new Oakland, CA Clemente Course
By Linnea Iannazzone October 12, 2022
The Clemente Course in the Humanities mourns the passing of our supporter and friend Grace Glueck. An early advocate of Clemente, Grace...
By Linnea Iannazzone September 6, 2022
Shakespeare famously said “all the world’s a stage,” and for the Providence Clemente Veterans’ Initiative, so is the classroom. Thanks to...
By Linnea Iannazzone September 6, 2022
Most of the time, students learn art history through books and images projected on a screen. But thanks to an innovative local...
By Vive Griffith September 6, 2022
This summer’s launch of the Inflection Points Seminar, “Time, Memory, and Transformation: Restoring the Salish Sea,” offered through...
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