ClarkNews
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Clark honored for exemplary community service
University named to President’s Honor Roll for Civic Engagement
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Perkins School president to speak on rights of disabled
Steven Rothstein, president of the Perkins School for the Blind, one of the world’s leading institutions for educating the blind and deaf-blind, will present “Individuals with Disabilities: The Next Civil Rights Movement,” as part of Clark University’s Difficult Dialogues program at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 3, in Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center, 950 Main Street,…
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Clark Model U.N. team excels at Harvard conference
Twenty-four students on the Clark University Model United Nations participated and team delegates earned four awards in the highly competitive, international Harvard National Model United Nations 2010 Conference, Feb. 11 to 14 in Boston. Senior Anna Moran won the Best Delegate Award (top honors in her committee) in the Asian Regional Forum, representing Indonesia. Sarah Richard and Abir Joshi, both…
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Novelist who inspired ‘Precious’ at Clark
Clark University’s Office of Intercultural Affairs will present Sapphire, poet and author of the 1996 novel “Push” (which may be better known by its film adaptation title “Precious”), as part of their Black History month celebration at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22, in Daniels Theater, Atwood Hall on Downing Street, Worcester. Read an article covering Sapphire’s…
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All-American Clark U diver appears in Sports Illustrated
Clark University sophomore All-American diver Eileen Garcia (New York, N.Y.) is featured in the February 22 issue of Sports Illustrated. The issue, which hits newsstands on Thursday (Feb. 18) and has American speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno on the cover, has Garcia in the famed “Faces in the Crowd” section detailing her collegiate diving exploits.…
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Mosakowski Institute director offers political insights on White House Chronicle
James R. Gomes, director of the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise, at Clark University, was the special guest on “Politics in the Age of Obama,” an episode of White House Chronicle, hosted by Llewellyn King. Gomes discussed the role of Clark and other institutions of higher education in influencing lawmakers by putting research into effective practice. The wide-ranging…
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Students in Sierra Leone practice social entrepreneurship
Ten Clark University students and one Clark alumnus recently returned from Bo, Sierra Leone, with David Jordan, president of Seven Hills Foundation, and longtime adjunct professor at Clark University. Many of the students who participated in the trip had completed Jordan’s undergraduate Social Entrepreneurship course. For 11 days, as part of a combined Clark University/Seven Hills Global Outreach (SHGO) initiative, the…
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Clark earns a bronze in social media ‘College Olympics’
Clark University was recently named to CollegeSurfing.com’s list of 50 Social Media Innovators in Higher Education, earning a bronze medal in the “Web 2.0 College Olympics.” Clark landed 41st among the fifty schools that CollegeSurfing said “captivated us with their social media savvy.” On Clark specifically, the online affiliate of the CollegeBound Network writes: “Clark…
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President Bassett becomes Chair of NAICU Board of Directors
WORCESTER, MA—Clark University President John Bassett was installed as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities (NAICU) at the organization’s annual meeting on Feb. 3, in Washington, D.C. President Bassett’s one-year term as chair of NAICU’s board was ratified by member college and university presidents. Vice chair of the board…
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Clark ‘Difficult Dialogues’ conference to focus on higher ed
WORCESTER, MA— Clark University’s Difficult Dialogues Initiative and The Public Conversations Project, a leading dialogue consulting organization based in Watertown, Mass., will host a conference, “Inviting Dialogue; Renewing the Deep Purposes of Higher Education,” on Thursday, February 11 and Friday, February 12. The conference is aimed at examining the role of dialogue in higher education, and…