March 9, 2026

Spring Edition—Issue 21

Student feedback and input has been vital to a number of recent efforts.

Below are some examples of changes made in the last few years because L&C students (maybe even you) shared their thoughts and experiences:

   - Deciding to change the mascot and selecting the River Otter in response to direct student             feedback and community voting

   - Modifying the costs used in the financial aid process to better reflect what students actually         spend for things like books, transportation, and personal expenses

   - Modernizing the student digital experience via the creation of the HIVE and launching student       self-service registration

   - Allowing meal swipes to be used in the Trail Room until it closes, helping expand meal plan           usage AND an addition of healthier options in the Trail Room throughout dinner hours

   - Developing new academic programs in Data Science, Education and Health Studies 

   - Creating the New Student Peer Mentor Program (NSPM) and changing NSO to focus on               small groups, offer more student-choice options, and provide better connections with the LC         Community including a more robust introduction to available academic resources 

Tell us -> Do you think we “otter” survey you:
          - more
          - less
          - the same amount

On behalf of,
The Committee of Student Success

Lewis & Clark has officially transitioned all remaining WebAdvisor functionality to Self-Service. To help you navigate these changes and their impact on course registration, step-by-step instructions are available on the Registrar’s website. You can also find helpful how-to videos in the College Advising Center's Video Library. Be sure to meet with your advisor to obtain registration permission starting today and as a reminder, registration begins the week of April 7.

Kick off the Peer Collective Leadership Summit with an evening of connection, mocktails, and heavy appetizers. Join fellow student leaders and campus mentors for a high-energy networking mixer designed to sharpen your professional social skills before we dive into Saturday’s workshops.

Kick-Off: March 13, 5 - 6:30 p.m., Stamm, Fowler Student Center
Summit: March 14, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Stamm, Fowler Student Center

Here are the upcoming home athletic events! For more details, visit lcpioneers.com/calendar

March 12, Women's Lacrosse vs Aurora University, 6 p.m., Huston Field.

March 14, Men's Tennis vs George Fox University, 10 a.m., Tennis Dome.

March 14, Women's Lacrosse vs Occidental College, 1 p.m., Huston Field.

March 15, Women's Lacrosse vs Pacific Lutheran University, 1 p.m., Huston Field.

Join the on campus L&C Days of Giving Celebration on March 11! Stop by the CAS campus from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. for a day of community impact and fun. Enjoy live music from student bands, free treats like stroopwafels and popcorn, and games like bingo and cornhole.

Your participation, at every level, will help us in fundraising for scholarships, programs and student organizations that define what it is to be part of L&C. Open to the entire L&C community! 

This year’s symposium explores dimensions of resistance, activism, and solidarity in relation to gender and sexuality. The symposium takes place March 11-13, 2026. Times, locations, and additional details can be found on the schedule. Events are free and open to the public.

Join the IME team in a night of celebration during our annual IME Banquet! This year’s event is inspired by the quote: “Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.” – Wilma Rudolph

Date of Event: Thursday, April 16, 2026
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Location: Stamm Hall, Fowler Student Center, CAS Campus
Graduates: Last day to RSVP: Monday, March 16
General Attendees: Last day to RSVP is Friday, April 10

Lewis & Clark’s Theatre Department Presents: When We Slept in Trees, on March 12-14, at 7:30 p.m.

When We Slept in Trees is a devised dance/theatre piece led by faculty members Rebecca Lingafelter (director) and Tiffany Mills (movement director), along with designers Jenny Ampersand (costume) and Miranda Hardy (set and lights), this piece is devised by the company. The source material is rooted in the relationship between human beings and the natural world and draws from numerous sources including poetry, movement, music, storytelling and visual art.

Mar. 9
5:30 - 7 p.m.

Frank Manor House

Cracking the Code: Data Science and Analytics Networking Mixer

Cracking the Code: Data Science & Analytics Networking Mixer brings together students, alumni, and faculty to explore the new Data Science major and the many career paths it can open.

Mar. 10
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

Fowler Student Center - Room 350

Work Smarter, Not Harder: The Two-Hour Job Search Method (1-Hour Workshop)

Whether you are looking for a shortcut or game-changing efficiencies, this one hour workshop will give you a template when you are looking for an internship, your first job, or your future jobs (after you invariably quit your first job). This is based on Steve Dalton’s book The Two Hour Job Search. Chrys Hutchings, Managing Director of the Bates Center, will spare you the time to read it and just teach it to you in the comfort of your leafy campus.

Mar. 11
7 - 8 p.m.

Miller 106

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt, A Career Retrospective

Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt is an American historian and diplomat. Join us for a curated journey through a distinguished career, as Ambassador Deborah Lipstadt pulls back the curtain on her work before, during, and after serving as an Ambassador in the Biden Presidential Administration.

Mar. 12
4:30 - 6 p.m.

Miller 207

Sexual Health & Consent (SHAC) Workshop

Calling all first year students: Sign up and attend one of our upcoming Sexual Health and Consent workshops to learn about healthy relationships, contraception, STI prevention, consent, and resources to help support you! You must sign up in advance to attend.

Mar. 12
5 - 6 p.m.

Miller 102

Documentary Screening: Helpers by Kelly Clendenon

Join the Center of Social Change in collaboration with an emerging local Portland nonprofit organization ‘Common Lens’ to learn about houselessness in our local community. We will be watching a short film on houselessness in Portland and it’s overlap with substance abuse. Kelly Clendenon, the director of the film and founder of Common Lens, will be providing a Q & A session after the film.

Mar. 12
6 - 7 p.m.

Armstrong Lounge, Frank Manor House

2025-2026 Visiting Writers Series: Elizabeth Willis

L&C English welcomes Elizabeth Willis as the last of six authors in our 2025-2026 Visiting Writers Series.

Mar. 13
5 - 6:30 p.m.

Hoffman Gallery

Transgressors Exhibit and Symposium Closing Reception

Join us for a closing reception to celebrate Lewis & Clark’s 45th Annual Gender Studies Symposium and Transgressors, an exhibition of now and future Indigiqueer ancestors who move beyond boundaries in life and art.

Mar. 19
11 - 12 a.m.

1st Floor Lobby, J.R. Howard 

VPSL Pop-Up - March Spring-Board

Join us for our monthly pop-up! Come reset for the Spring Break with some sweet treats, coffee, and more.

The Himes & Duniway Society generously supports an annual book collecting competition to recognize and encourage undergraduates and graduate students at Lewis & Clark College who collect printed works to enable them to continue building their own libraries, to appreciate the special qualities of the printed word, and to read and collect for pleasure and education.

The Book Collecting Prize will be awarded to two students for outstanding book collections and essays explaining their collection choices. Each prize will be $500 to be spent on further bibliographic acquisitions. Read more.

Is living in this time A LOT? Let’s set aside our saturated thinking brains for 90 minutes and move into our body’s wisdom. Students, staff, and faculty, as well as community members, are invited to join Hilary, facilitator of InterPlay and Chaplain, as she leads 90 minutes of an embodied spirituality practice called InterPlay.  

Come and join us on March 15, from 2 - 3:30 p.m. @ Gregg Pavilion!

Office of the Vice President of Student Life and Dean of Students

East Hall 101

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