Stories
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Clark University researcher asks: Is this the last acceptable prejudice?
As this year’s college graduates go forth into the world, they are entering a society that is in some ways decidedly unfriendly to them. TIME magazine’s recent cover slurring them as “The Me Me Me Generation” is only the latest insult thrown at them by their elders. In the twenty years I have been researching…
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Fiske Guide to Colleges names Clark University a ‘Best Buy’
The 2014 revised and updated Fiske Guide to Colleges includes Clark University as a “Best Buy” among the list of “best and most interesting of the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States.” Clark is one of just 41 institutions — 21 public and 20 private — to receive the Fiske “Best Buy” rating, which identifies…
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Clark University included on Princeton Review’s ranking of Great Schools for Psychology Majors
Clark University is one of three New England schools to offer at least one of the country’s hottest majors for undergraduates, according to The Princeton Review’s The Best 377 Colleges, 2013 edition. The college guide’s “Great Schools for 20 of the Most Popular Undergraduate Majors” list praises Clark for its psychology program. Clark is on the…
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Emerging Adults Living with their Parents
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Ph.D., research professor of psychology and director of the Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults, elaborates on emerging adults moving home.
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults findings released
Emerging adults getting by with a lot of help from their folks; wide majority of parents providing the financial support they didn’t get in their twenties
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Conference at Clark expands global scholarship on consumerism
Scholars from around the world gathered at Clark University (June 12-14) for the international conference of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), The Future of Consumerism and Well-Being in a World of Ecological Constraints. The conference, which drew 117 participants, included presentations by scholars working in the field of sustainable consumption, policy briefings by national and…
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Back to the Arctic: Clark University student researchers embark on polar science expeditions
While basting on a crowded beach or waiting for the AC to cool your sweltering car interior, imagine yourself cutting through Arctic seas aboard an icebreaker or exploring the wilderness from your base aboard a river barge in Siberia. That’s where some intrepid Clark University students and graduate researchers will be as they embark on research missions…
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Clark University honors special alumni at Reunion Weekend events
Clark University honored Allen Glick ’63 with the Distinguished Alumni Award, and Richard Boucher ’03, M.B.A. ’04, and Anthony Colon ’03, M.P.A. ’04, received the Young Alumni Award at the May 17 Reunion Weekend Dinner. Earlier that day, Dr. Lee Gurel ’48 received the Fiat Lux Award for Extraordinary Service by a Legacy Society Member.…
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What is the key to being an adult? Clark releases new poll findings
Parents and their emerging adults rank ‘being responsible for yourself’ before money and marriage as key to becoming an adult
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Seven Clark undergrads to intern in the nonprofit sector this summer
Seven Clark University undergraduates are working as interns in the non-profit sector this summer with support from the Larry Franks ’73, Ellen Berelson and the Theodore H. Barth Foundation. Tara J. Barnes ’15 received funding so that she can serve as an intern at Year Up, a nonprofit organization in Providence, R.I., that provide urban young adults with the…