We aim to be a relentless force for positive change in the world.
We seek to unleash human promise and potential, inspire curiosity and an eagerness to learn, develop passionate leaders, and help them succeed.
We will fulfill our vision and position Clark as a University of distinction by following a roadmap that inspires steady and persistent progress.
We call this roadmap
Clark Inspired.
Clark Inspired directs and prioritizes investment in our people, programs, and campus.
Clark Inspired is the framework that guides how Clark University grows, adapts, and advances its mission.
We created Clark Inspired with a simple belief: the most important challenges facing our world do not fit neatly within disciplines, institutions, or borders. They require curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and a willingness to challenge convention.
Rather than a fixed strategic plan, Clark Inspired was designed to be adaptable and to evolve, allowing us to build on our strengths, respond to emerging opportunities, and focus our resources where we can make the greatest impact. Today, it guides initiatives that strengthen academic excellence, enhance the student experience, deepen community engagement, and build the institutional capacity needed to ensure Clark’s long-term success.
What matters most
Everything we do is guided by five enduring commitments:
Where Clark leads
Clark has always been at its best when bringing different perspectives together to tackle important questions and urgent challenges.
Today, we are building on that tradition through distinctive areas of strength:
Always evolving
Clark Inspired is designed to move forward. From new academic programs and schools to advances in student success, interdisciplinary collaboration, and institutional transformation, the framework continues to evolve alongside the University itself. Because the future will belong to institutions that are willing to learn, adapt, and focus on where they can make the greatest difference. And that is what Clark has always done best.
Clark helps people understand the world and improve it. Clark Inspired helps Clark improve itself.
Clark Inspired progress
Since 2022 we have:
- Opened the Center for Media Arts, Computing, and Design
- Introduced a four-year Honors Program
- Launched the School of Climate, Environment, and Society
- Implemented Clark Core reforms
- Introduced The Clark Experience (ClarkE)
- Enhanced student success infrastructure and services
- Advanced campus housing and dining improvements
- Built an Experimental Plant Investigation Center as an addition to the Lasry Biosciences building.
- Begun implementing a new academic structure built around schools and interdisciplinary areas of distinction
- Achieved Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement
- Continued in Accreditation until 2036 by the New England Commission on Higher Education
- Launched Plan and Purpose: Our Campaign for What Matters Most
Current Priorities 2026-27
- The Clark Experience and Honors Program
- Enrollment growth, student success and outcomes
- Academic reorganization
- School of Climate, Environment, and Society
- School of Media, Arts Computing, and Design
- School of Science, Health, and Human Development
- School of Civic and Global Engagement
- Institutional sustainability
- Plan and Purpose: Our Campaign for What Matters Most
- Partnerships
