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Clark University application numbers hit record high
A record 7,291 students applied to become members of Clark University’s Class of 2018, representing a 31 percent increase over last year’s numbers and an astounding 70 percent rise over two years. The Office of Admissions called in all hands — and some pinch hitters — to handle the massive workload, spending long days, nights, and weekends ensuring that…
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April 21: ‘Live Long, Die Short’ author to speak at Clark University about successful aging
Former Air Force flight surgeon, dynamic speaker, and author of “Live Long, Die Short: A Guide for Aging Successfully,” Dr. Roger Landry will address one of the fundamental social and public policy issues of our time, in a public lecture titled “The Imperative of Successful Aging: Implications for Policy,” beginning at 4 p.m. Monday, April 21, in the Grace…
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Clark University geography program earns prestigious Sussman Foundation support for Ph.D. student researchers
The Clark University Graduate School of Geography has been selected to join a prestigious group of institutions that receive funding from the Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation for U.S.-based environmental science Ph.D. student research. Over the last several years, the Edna Bailey Sussman Foundation has supported students enrolled in a select number of graduate degree programs, contributing to the scientific…
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On the Air: In 1964, Clark students brought a bigger vision to WCUW
Alumni celebrate ‘station with a mission’
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The Kids are All Right (Their Parents, too)
Two magazine covers, appearing more than five years apart, make Jeffrey Jensen Arnett alternately cringe and smile. The first, from the Jan. 24, 2005, TIME magazine, shows a man in his twenties, dressed in business-casual attire, sitting in a sandbox and looking wistfully into the distance. The accompanying spring 2014 headline reads: “Meet the Twixters, young adults…
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Chaison’s book explores the impact of globalization on unions
Will the rise of the global economy be the death of unions and collective bargaining? How can unions safeguard employee wages, benefits and workplace conditions when companies can hire workers in countries where they have no bargaining power or legal protection? Can unions deal with globalization by using their traditional approaches to representing workers, or…
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Adam Institute hosts Urban Teacher Educator Conference
Clark University’s Adam Institute for Urban Teaching and School Practice hosted the seventh annual meeting of the Urban Teacher Education Consortium, March 5-7. In attendance were more than 50 participants from colleges and universities from the Northeast, Midwest and California. The consortium was coordinated by the Adam Institute, the University of Chicago Urban Teacher Education Program, Mills…
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Clark University students learn lobbying how-to’s during Advocacy Day conference in Washington
A group of Clark University students are back on campus after participating in Advocacy Day, a conference held by the Association of International Educators in Washington, D.C., from March 17-19. Associate Director of the Office of Intercultural Affairs Patricia Doherty and Associate Director of Study Abroad Programs Connie Whitehead Hanks, who accompanied the student group, wrote: “Advocacy Day gave us, as NAFSA members, the…
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Panera founder Ron Shaich ’76 to speak at commencement, May 18
Clark University will hold its 110th Commencement on Sunday, May 18, on the Jefferson Academic Center Green. The processional will begin at noon followed by a University-wide ceremony. At approximately 1:30 p.m., graduate students and their guests will move to the Kneller Athletic Center for a graduate school commencement, while the undergraduate program will continue…
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April 17 lecture to commemorate anniversary of Armenian Genocide
Historian Taner Akçam delves into controversial memoir by Armenian soldier