Jim Keogh
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LEEP springs ahead with kickoff celebration and conversation
Students streamed into Tilton Hall yesterday to launch themselves off a platform, strike mid-air poses, and land in the welcome padding of a high-jump mat, their indoor flights caught on camera for posterity. These aerial acrobatics — executed, appropriately, on Leap Day — heralded the official announcement of LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), Clark…
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Difficult Dialogues event melds poetry, resilience and LEEP
“People have been trying to kill me since I was born.” The line opens “Immigrant Blues,” the autobiographical poem by Li-Young Lee that illuminates his family’s history of traumatization, assimilation and survival. China’s Cultural Revolution led to the torture and murder of Lee family members, and Li-Young’s father, once a personal physician to Mao Zedong,…
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Gurel lecturer calls for a ‘data crusade’ in education system
In a world awash with information, where everyone from retailers to online dating services gathers, studies and deploys targeted data to improve performance, it stands to reason that the United States’ education system would make similar strides to boost student achievement. But that hasn’t been so. According to Aimee Rogstad Guidera, executive director of National…
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‘Clark-itecture’ brought to life through course, student exhibit
The buildings at Clark University tell stories that are steeped in history, touched by drama and even contain a dash of surprise. Did you know, for instance, that the gothic buildings framing the campus green on three sides were at one time meant to be joined by a fourth building that would have sealed off…
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‘The fight is on’: Hayden, Ross lead talk on engagement and citizenry
The year was 1961, and Tom Hayden had been in jail in the South for participating in civil rights protests when he put pen to paper. What began as a letter to his friends in Students for a Democratic Society blossomed into the blueprint for the Port Huron Statement, the manifesto that helped launch the…
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Presidents lead Difficult Dialogues series on livelihood and career
Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella, Clark President David Angel, faculty and students gathered in Dana Commons Oct. 18 to grapple with the issue of how liberal arts colleges are preparing students for lives of work. The event, titled “Livelihood and Vocation,” was the third symposium in “Educating … for What?” — this semester’s Difficult Dialogues…
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Luxembourg ambassador touts European economy in visit to Clark
The nation of Luxembourg is small — about the size of Rhode Island — but its economy has remained robust, even while some of its European partners stagger beneath historic debt and struggle to weather the global recession. Jean-Paul Senninger, ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the United States, delivered that message of…
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Clark senior Lembitz is at the heart of Occupy Wall Street movement
Each night, Breanna “Bre” Lembitz ’12 sleeps on a mat in New York’s Zuccotti Park, covered only by a tarp. She can’t imagine sleeping anywhere else. The political science and economics major has assumed a central role in the Occupy Wall Street movement, working 16- to 20-hour days to ensure that each financial contribution to…
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A Man of Impact
Watch a tribute to Richard Traina. Richard Traina arrived on campus in 1984 prepared to make changes. Today, his tenure is seen as a transformative time in the University’s history, and in the neighborhood that Clark calls home. Memories, even recent ones, often enough exist on the far side of hazy vistas and in the echoes of…
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Make ’em Laugh
Wendi Trilling’s rise from temp to executive vice president of comedy at CBS is the stuff of… well …TV Wendi Trilling ’86 knows something about long shots. As the executive vice president of comedy development at CBS, she is pitched 400 sitcom ideas every year, and of those perhaps two will ever make it to…