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Clark’s curricular innovations garner $620,000 Mellon Foundation grant

Support to help propel Clark’s developments in humanities education
Forbes names Clark a ‘top college’ with strong ROI for grads

Clark University appears in Forbes’ annual guide to America’s Top Colleges, ranked at no. 188 on the list of 660 schools recognized for “quality of teaching, great career prospects, high graduation rates and low debt levels.” Besides the overall ranking, Clark is listed at No. 86 in Research Universities, No. 83 in the Northeast, and No. 141 among Private Colleges. In…
Studying in China, learning about herself

Clark student adopted from China returns to study abroad experience, reconnect with heritage
2017 Fiske Guide cites Clark University’s LEEP model, caring community, global outlook

“The Fiske Guide to Colleges,” revised and updated for 2017, again includes Clark University in its annual “selective, subjective, and systematic look at three-hundred-plus colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, and the U.K.” The guide covers a broad range of topics, including academic quality, student body, social life, financial aid, campus setting, housing, food, and…
Clark undergrads receive funding for summer internships at Facing History and Ourselves

Spencer Cronin ’18 and Hannah King ’19 are spending the summer interning for Facing History and Ourselves in Brookline, continuing their studies and conducting research with the help of stipends they received from Clark’s Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program. Cronin, a history major, is developing programs of Holocaust and genocide studies education for secondary schools across the country while at…
Clark professor signs petition requesting WHO, IOC postpone or move Olympic Games due to Zika

Philosophy Department Chair Patrick Derr likens response to Zika to early years of AIDS pandemic
Alumna cooking up a recipe for women’s success

After conducting field work in Haiti, Lelani Williams, MBA/MA '16 crafted the idea for Sun Top Solar Cookers to help women in developing countries learn new skills
The Christian Science Monitor: ‘The brewing liberal labor revolution’

The growing effort toward raising the minimum wage in the United States to $15 an hour — which has already happened in several locations — is leading to an examination of labor laws that date back nearly a century, according to a Christian Science Monitor article. Drawing upon the social contract established by those labor laws, Clark University’s Gary N. Chaison,…
Close-ups from far away

Free, high-resolution satellite imagery soon to be available to Clark faculty and students
All the world’s a classroom to Jude Fernando

Clark IDSC professor shows his students how fieldwork abroad helps them learn about themselves and what they're researching