Connections@Clark Celebration
2025-04-25 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Higgins Lounge, Dana Commons, Dana Commons
Join us in celebrating and honoring the first-year and graduating class of Connections@Clark participants, including mentors. We will have a ceremony for the graduating seniors, a superlative celebration for current first-years, and a mix-and-mingle portion with food for the event.

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Theatre Arts Program Showcase
2025-04-25 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-26 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-27 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Center, Michelson Theater, Charlotte Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, United States
Dance and Devised Theatre students will present their work from the semester with special faculty and student guests.

Arbor Day Festival
2025-04-26 12:00 - 15:00 | Clark University Red Square, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Join the Arboretum Advocates, other student organizations, and members of the local community to celebrate Arbor Day. Refreshments, activities — including invasive plant removal — and free items will be available.

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Multicultural End-of-the-Year Celebration
2025-04-26 13:00 - 16:00 | Alden Quad and Dana Commons, Maywood Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, United States
Please join us for an end-of-the-year celebration of all of the many cultures at Clark. There will be food, music, and alumni engagement.

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Clark University Concert Band
2025-04-26 15:00 - 17:00 | Atwood Hall – Daniels Theater
The Clark University Concert Band will explore symphonic soundtracks from the stage to the big screen in this cinematic tour.

JazzFest
2025-04-27 12:00 - 17:00 | Campus Green, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Jazz Workshop Ensemble and Clark University Jazz Combos under the direction of Jerry Sabatini perform an afternoon festival of music in classic Jazz arrangements and other styles.

Older Jews and the Holocaust Symposium
2025-04-28 13:00 - 16:00 | Rose Library, Strassler Center
28 April 2025 |1 – 4 p.m. | Rose Library
Asher Lecture Series
Older Jews and the Holocaust Symposium
Speakers:Joanna Sliwa (Historian, Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference)
Elizabeth Anthony (Director, Visiting Scholar Programs, Jack Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC)
Michael Geheran (Deputy Director, Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, United States Military Academy at West Point, New York)
Discussant:Glenn Dynner (Carl and Dorothy Bennett Professor of Judaic Studies, Director of the Bennett Center at Fairfield University)
Older Jews and the Holocaust is a project dedicated to uncovering the often-overlooked experiences of elderly Jews during and after the Holocaust. While many were tragically murdered, some survived and rebuilt their lives. This project moves beyond the conventional focus on their vulnerability and loss, instead highlighting the resilience and continuity of their prewar lives through the horrors of Nazi persecution and into the postwar period. It examines how they coped with trauma and how families, communities, and organizations responded to their unique needs.
This project is undertaken with assistance from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, supported by the German Federal Ministry of Finance and the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future, as well as the Ernest Hecht Charitable Foundation. A volume by the same title will be co-published by Wayne State University Press and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in spring 2026.
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Clark Symposium sponsored by the Asher Family Fund

Late-Night Breakfast
2025-04-29 22:30 - 2025-04-30 00:00 | The Table at Higgins (University Center), 950 Main Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610, United States
Come gather in The Table at Higgins for this long-standing tradition where your Clark staff and administrators are there to greet you, wish you good luck as you close out your semester, and serve you a late-night meal! Late Night Breakfast is a part of Wellness Education’s coordinated “Feel Good Finals” and is a joyful time to take a break from working hard and come together for a community study break. Just bring your Clark ID with you and have your event pass ready.

Music Performance Showcase
2025-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Razzo Hall, 92 Downing St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Selected students from the Music Program will perform the final concert of the spring semester.

The Armenian Woman, Minoritarian Agency, and the Making of Iranian Modernity, 1860–1979
2025-05-02 12:00 - 13:00 | Rose Library, Strassler Center
Speakers:
Houri Berberian (Professor of History & Meghrouni Family Presidential Chair in Armenian Studies, School of Humanities. Director of the Center for Armenian Studies)Talinn Grigor (Professor of Art and Architectural History, Modern and Contemporary Global Architecture and Art Critical, Race, Feminist, and (post) Colonial Theory)
Houri Berberian and Talinn Grigor offer the first history of Armenian women in modern Iran. Foregrounding the work of Armenian women’s organizations, the authors trace minoritarian politics and the shifting relationships among doubly minoritized Armenian female subjects, Iran’s central nodes of power, and the Irano-Armenian patriarchal institutions of church and political parties.
Engaging broader considerations around modernization, nationalism, and feminism, this book makes a conceptually rich contribution to how we think about the history of women and minoritized peoples. Berberian and Grigor read archival, textual, visual, and oral history sources together and against one another to challenge conventional notions of “the archive” and transform silences and absences into audible and visual presences. Understanding minoritarian politics as formulated by women through their various forms of public and intellectual activisms, they provide a groundbreaking intervention in Iran’s history of modernization, Armenian diasporic history, and Iranian and Armenian feminist historiography.
Sponsored by the Friends of Robert Aram and Marianne Kaloosdian and Stephen and Marian Mugar Professor in Armenian Genocide Studies

CUSB: Beta Alpha Psi Series on Financial Literacy
2025-05-02 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Massachusetts
Join our special guest, Nancy Rosedale, business community officer at Bank of America, for an insightful Financial Literacy Workshop Series. Learn essential financial skills that will help you manage your money, protect against fraud, and build a secure financial future.
Session 1 (Oct. 25): Banking Basics and Income and Paychecks
Session 2 (Nov. 1): Financial Safety and Spending and Saving
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Public History Walking Tour
2025-05-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Woodland, May, and Main streets
REGISTRATION CLOSED — TOUR FULL

Musicians, manufacturers, a laundress and a Swedish immigrant — the history of this neighborhood is remarkable not just because of its many examples of distinctive architecture, but because of the colorful stories of the men and women who initially shaped it. Join students in Clark’s Public History course for a walking tour that takes us back in time to the Gilded Age of the late 19th century. Hear about the homes, their inhabitants, and the community’s change over time!

The tour is part of Preservation Worcester’s Jane Week programming. Jane Week — named for Jane Jacobs, an urban theorist and activist who championed a community-based approach to city building — gives Worcester residents and visitors a chance to connect to each other, explore Worcester by foot and participate in interesting discussions on how we can enhance the design and function of our city.

CUSB Honors & Awards Ceremony
2025-05-07 16:00 - 18:00 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Come celebrate the members of the Clark University School of Business community that have received the year’s prestigious honors and awards, including induction into the Beta Gamma Sigma and Beta Alpha Psi Honor Societies.

International Student Graduation Celebration
2025-05-13 16:00 - 18:00 | Massachusetts
Join us in Tilton Hall to honor our graduating international students at our International Graduation Ceremony! We look forward to celebrating this big milestone with our international students.
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Lavender Graduation
2025-05-17 13:30 - 15:00 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Honoring and celebrating LGBTQIA+ members of the 2025 graduating class.

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First-Gen Pinning Ceremony
2025-05-18 11:00 - 12:30 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
The First-Gen Pinning Ceremony honors the achievements of our first-generation* college students and first-generation 1.5** students at Clark University.

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*At Clark University, a first-generation college student (or first-gen) is defined as an individual whose parents/guardians did not complete a bachelor’s degree. This does not include siblings.

**The student is not necessarily the first in their family to go to college as defined above, but typically navigates college like many other first-generation college students due to self-identifying as not having prior exposure to or knowledge of navigating higher education.

Multicultural Graduation Ceremony
2025-05-18 14:00 - 15:30 | Higgins University Center, Tilton Hall
Multicultural Graduation honors the experiences and accomplishments of graduating multicultural students.

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Commencement
2025-05-19 10:00 - 17:00 | Massachusetts
Family and friends are invited to join us in celebrating the Class of 2025 at two ceremonies:

10 a.m. – Bachelor’s degree recipients
3 p.m. – Master’s and doctoral degree recipients

Visit our Commencement site to learn more about the schedule and to read information for ceremony participants and visitors.

Art Talks Series with Ria Brodell
2025-06-22 19:00 - 20:00 | Razzo Hall, 92 Downing St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Brought to you by Clark Mfa in visual arts

Ria Brodell

Ria Brodell is a non-binary trans artist, educator and author based in Boston, and is the Visiting Faculty for our June 2025 MFA residency.

Brodell has had solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States, is a recipient of an Artadia Award, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship and an SMFA Traveling Fellowship. Brodell’s book, Butch Heroes, was released in 2018 via MIT Press and was featured in a solo exhibition at the Fitchburg Museum in 2024.

Art Talks with Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
2025-06-23 19:00 - 20:00 | via Zoom
Brought to you by Clark Mfa in visual arts

Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons

Cuban born mixed media artist, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons describes her work as telling “stories of forgotten people in order to foster a dialogue to better understand and propose a poetic, compassionatereading of our time.” Her survey, Behold opened at the Brooklyn Museum in 2023, and traveled to the Nasher Museum at Duke, the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In 2023 she was awarded the MacArthur genius grant.

Art Talks Series with Cathy Lu
2025-06-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Razzo Hall, 92 Downing St, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Brought to you by Clark Mfa in visual arts

Cathy Lu

Cathy Lu is a ceramics based artist that manipulates traditional Chinese art imagery and presentation as a way to explore how experiences of immigration, cultural hybridity, and cultural assimilation become part of American identity.

Cathy’s work has been exhibited at SMoMA, Prospect 6 New Orleans, Johansson Projects, Aggregate Space, Jessica Silverman Gallery and the Chinese Culture Center SF.

Art Talks Series with Jeffrey De Blois
2025-06-25 19:00 - 20:00 | CMACD 002, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Brought to you by Clark Mfa in visual arts

Jeffrey De Blois

De Blois is the Mannion Family Curator at the ICA Boston and has curated the first U.S. solo museum exhibitions of artists Caitlin Keogh, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, Tau Lewis, and Tammy Nguyen.

He has also organized solo shows with artists Charles Atlas, Rose B. Simpson, Carolina Caycedo, William Kentridge, Raúl de Nieves, and been part of the organization of over 30 shows and 10 books at the ICA.

Art Talks Series with Danni Shen
2025-06-26 19:00 - 20:00 | CMACD 002, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Brought to you by Clark Mfa in visual arts

Danni Shen

Senior curatorial and public programs assistant at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Danni has held curatorial positions at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong; The Kitchen, NYC, Residency Unlimited Inc, NYC; Wave Hill, NYC, and the Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.

She has written on art for BOMB, Art in America, Heichi, Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Rhizome, and OnScreen Today.

Art Talks Series with Lauren Luloff
2025-06-27 19:00 - 20:00 | CMACD 002, 7 Hawthorne Street, Worcester, MA, 01610, United States
Brought to you by Clark Mfa in visual arts

Lauren Luloff

Lauren Luloff’s paintings are constructed, layered and torn, coalescing into moody evocations of color, time and place.

Luloff’s work has been included in the notable exhibitions at the Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY;Bronx River Arts Center, New York;Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn;Galeria Marlborough, Madrid; CB1Gallery, Los Angeles; Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Luxembourg and Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY.

MPA Senior Leadership Program Panel Discussion
2025-08-08 14:30 - 16:00 | ASEC 202
In a panel discussion moderated by Joe O’Brien, the MPA Senior Leadership Program will examine the effects of recent federal budget cuts on core social safety net programs, including SNAP, Medicaid, fuel assistance, and others.

Panelists include elected officials and community leaders, three of whom are alumni of our MPA-SLP program:

Caitlin Hodgkins, Office of Congressman Jim McGovern

State Representative Dan Donahue, MPA-SLP ’21

Susan Sleigh, MPA-SLP ’22, Family Health Center of Worceste

Kelly Dolan, MPA-SLP ’23, Assistant Town Manager of Holden, Mass.

Immunization Clinic for Required State Vaccines
2025-08-19 09:30 - 16:30 | Grace Conference Room, Higgins University Center
Student only vaccine clinic sponsored by Health Services in collaboration with Walgreen’s Pharmacy. This clinic is for students who are missing required immunizations, which are mandatory to attend school. Please bring a form of ID, your health insurance card and wear a short sleeve shirt. Failure to comply will result in a hold being placed on your registration account. Once again this clinic is ONLY if you are missing the state required vaccines to attend school. If you have any questions email healthservices@clarku.edu or call 508-793-7467.

Orientation Events for Early Arrivals
2025-08-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Lurie Conference Room
Undergraduate Orientation: Join your Peer Mentors for a fun evening with board games, card games, and more. We have a wide variety of games to choose from, or feel free to bring your own! Whether you’re more casual or competitive, it’s sure to be fun!
