ClarkNews
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Clark joins Scholars at Risk network for academic freedom
Clark University recently became a member of the Scholars at Risk network, an international network of institutions and individuals working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. A launch event, titled “Academic Freedom in the Middle East and Beyond: Supporting Scholars at Risk,” will feature a panel discussion, from 5…
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Clark students receive funding to turn one rooftop on campus ‘green’
An innovative student-sponsored idea to turn one of the rooftops of an existing building on the Clark University campus “green” has been chosen as the winner of this year’s U-Reka: The Big Idea Contest, an annual contest sponsored by Clark’s Innovation & Entrepreneurship (I&E) program. Other ideas that received funding include an after school program…
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Students in Sustainable University course present research projects
Clark University students completing a fall semester course titled “The Sustainable University” recently made a public presentation of their final research projects, revealing issues and posing solutions to Clark’s role in sustainable practices on campus and beyond. This course, which includes undergraduates and also graduate students enrolled in a graduate-level course called “Sustainability and the…
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Clark gets $260K Davis Foundation grant to support LEEP initiative
Clark University has received a $260,338 grant to support key components of its Liberal Education and Effective Practice Initiative (LEEP), a multi-year, campus-wide program that aims to re-invent traditional, undergraduate liberal education. The grant was received from the Davis Educational Foundation, established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.…
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Clark group travels to Global Alternative Forum in Mexico
From December 4-11, Professor Dianne Rocheleau of the School of Geography at Clark University is traveling with a group of students, each actively engaged in issues of environment, development, social movements and climate change, to attend the Global Alternative Forum for Life & Environmental & Social Justice in Cancun, Mexico. The group will attend and participate in…
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Three Clark students spending the year abroad with Fulbright Awards
Clark University graduate students Jody Russell Manning, Elizabeth P. Anthony and recent graduate Angela L. Woodmansee are spending the 2010-11 academic year studying abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. The three scholars were selected on the basis of academic or professional achievements, as well as for their demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Jody Russell Manning spent the summer performing research…
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Clark Labs to unveil forest-saving tools at COP16 event in Cancun
New forest-saving geographic information system (GIS) tools implemented by Clark Labs will be unveiled at Forest Day 4, on Dec. 5 at COP16, the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change 16th Conference of the Parties, in Cancun, Mexico. REDD – Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation — is a climate change mitigation strategy first proposed at the…
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Leading expert on campus rape, sexual assault speaks at Clark
The Clark Anti-Violence Education (CAVE) program brought David Lisak, the pre-eminent expert on rape and sexual assault on college campuses, to Clark University on November 16. “Let’s stop using the term date rape,” Lisak urged an audience in Tilton Hall, pointing out how connotations “hint at acquiescence.” Fifteen percent of American women have been raped sometime in…
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Prominent education historian to deliver lecture at Clark on Dec. 1
One of the nation’s pre-eminent critics of high stakes testing, historian and author Diane Ravitch, will deliver the inaugural Dr. Lee Gurel ’48 Lecture at Clark University, “How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, in Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center. Ravitch will talk about where the movement to reform…
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Clark’s got talent: Critical MASS wins Consortium competition
Critical MASS, a student dance group from Clark University, won the top prize at “Consortium’s Got Talent,” a contest sponsored by the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, held Nov. 12 at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts. Chosen by audience vote, the winners received bragging rights and $1,000 from the evening’s cosponsor, Foley’s Collision Center. Critical MASS,…