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‘Kids these days’ redux: Clark Professor Jeffrey Arnett joins media’s ‘Millennial pledge’ debate

Traditional and new media alike love to opine about Millennials, and in many cases a generational divide, whether real or manufactured, rears its head. Recently, the Los Angeles Times‘ Chris Erskine, who writes the aptly named “Middle Ages” column, ignited the Twitterverse with his provocative piece, “Millennials, you literally cannot call yourselves adults until you…
Clark University playwrights take work from page to stage

There’s a certain thrill to watching one of your ideas come to life. For six young playwrights in Clark University’s Theater Arts Program that excitement will reach its peak during the program’s New Play Festival, running from November 3 to 22. During the process of bringing their plays to the stage, the playwrights – in collaboration with other…
Kim Dougherty ’98 brought law to the lab

Clark University alumna sought justice for victims of the New England Compounding Center contamination outbreak
Transgender rights activist Janet Mock advises: ‘Listen to yourself’

When Janet Mock sat down to write her memoir, she initially thought she’d do it for an audience of one: herself. But during the writing process, Mock came out in Marie Claire magazine as a transgender woman. The disclosure turned her into an “instant activist and advocate,” and not only expanded her audience but prompted her to use her…
Big Oil monopoly fuels the film ‘Pump’

It’s Saturday, and you have errands. First stop is the supermarket, where you browse shelves teeming with enough options to satisfy any culinary desire. Next stop, the mall, to find clothes for your new job. If you don’t find what you need there, an endless variety is only a couple of taps away on your…
Is college worth it? Clark Poll of Emerging Adults hears resounding ‘Yes!’

As stressed-out college students hunker down in labs and libraries or pull all-nighters writing papers or prepping for exams, they may find themselves wondering, “Is all this worth it?” And they’re not alone. Over the past decade and around the country, students, parents and the institutions themselves have been reexamining the value of higher education.…
Higgins School welcomes author, transgender rights activist Janet Mock

New York Times bestselling author and advocate for trans women’s rights Janet Mock will engage in a conversation about her memoir, Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More (Atria Books, 2014), at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 27, in room 320 of the Jefferson Academic Center. Feminist critic bell hooks…
C-SPAN Cities Tour visits Worcester, will feature Goddard legacy and Clark

Interview at Goddard Library archives and exhibit destined for December broadcast; Clark faculty authors to be part of literary culture segment
Carroll Wright, first president of Clark College and first U.S. Commissioner of Labor, inducted into Labor Hall of Honor

Carroll D. Wright, the first president of Clark University’s undergraduate college, enjoyed a renowned career as the first U.S. Commissioner of Labor and laid the foundation for the fledgling Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Clark professor’s ‘Sex, Politics, and Putin’ receives two prestigious book prizes

Clark University professor and chair of the political science department Valerie Sperling’s recently published book, “Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia,” has received the Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies from the Association for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) and also the Heldt Prize for Best Book in Slavic…