By Juli Kloza At our student association, SEISA, we currently have four active projects that are looking for a few more students to join to assist in various activities. Impacto – Chiapas, Mexico Impacto is a group that works to empower indigenous artisan women in Chiapas, Mexico to produce textiles Read more…
By Dennis Shaughnessy It’s our tenth year for the SEI Newsletter, and we continue to be so impressed with the ideas and writing of our students. We’re grateful for all of the student work that goes into producing each edition of the Newsletter, and especially for Natascha Elbech and Eleanor Read more…
By Natascha Elbech The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reports that Americans generally have a skewed perception of their financial security. Nearly 10 million households (7.7%) do not have a bank account, and another 25 million (20%) are “underbanked”, meaning they hold a primary bank account but manage finances outside Read more…
By Eleanor Patten Nearly a quarter of the poverty within the United States is located in inner cities. The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) is a Boston based research organization making strides to address poverty in the inner city through economic development. The ICIC was founded by Harvard Read more…
By Samuel Leadley It is widely known that the cost of attending college in the United States has dramatically increased in the past few decades. Presently, the average cost of attending college ranges from $25,890 for a public four-year college to $52,500 for a private non-profit four-year college. This represents Read more…
By Mason Fitzpatrick Recent reports from climate panels and experts have painted a harrowing picture of the future of our climate. A recent IPCC report stated that, “limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” Humans are inevitably slow to make Read more…