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Clark opportunities extolled, alumni feted at Reunion dinner

The world opened up for Michael Ross ’93 the day he arrived in Hughes Hall as a first-year student in 1989. The kid from a working-class Boston family found himself becoming fast friends with students who hailed from Pakistan, Jamaica, and that most exotic of locales, New York. Ross also discovered that Clark was a…
Clark holds 108th Commencement

Clark University celebrated its 108th Commencement on Sunday, May 20. Degrees were granted to 1,092 graduates: 546 baccalaureate, 520 masters, and 26 doctoral. Carol Geary Schneider, the president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), delivered the Commencement address. AAC&U is the leading national organization devoted to advancing and strengthening undergraduate liberal education. Schneider talked about the AAC&U’s Liberal…
Anthropologist’s new book looks at plight of indigenous Maya group

Liza Grandia, assistant professor at Clark University, finds it difficult to look at the coffee, bananas or sausage on her breakfast table without thinking about the territorial plight of the nearly one million people that make up Q’eqchi’ Maya, Guatemala’s second largest indigenous group, a group she has followed for nearly 18 years. Grandia’s latest book,…
Clark Recycling Partnership

Learn about a Clark fifth-year master’s in education student and her work launching a joint recycling program between Clark University and Woodland Academy.(Video by Mae Beerman ’14) Read more about the project.
New Clark survey of emerging adults reveals views on education

The “Now” generation says “Wait” – New Clark poll reveals fast-moving emerging adults won’t skip college and view it as ultimate success ticket.
Frost on the pumpkin

Originally published in Clark magazine, spring 2012 Alumni of a certain vintage still wax nostalgic over the Blizzard of ’78, which left much of the Northeast without power for days, forced the cancellation of classes, and produced snowdrifts that rose to the third floor of Wright Hall. Clark students who were on campus in…
Clark New Play Festival

Hear from one undergraduate playwright about Clark University’s New Play Festival. (Video by Mae Beerman ’14).
The man in the glass: In 1912, Louis Tyree broke the color barrier at Clark

In 1912, he was the first African American to graduate from Clark College
Westing: A Documentary

LEEP Pioneer and screen studies major Alison Mayer ’13 shot a road-trip documentary that addresses issues about American identity and the myth of the West. Alison’s research addresses the following questions: In an increasingly globalized and visibly multicultural world, how do Americans reinvent the myth of the West to work with—rather than against—other nations? How do Americans find…
Peace Corps partners with IDCE in graduate fellowship program

The Peace Corps has welcomed Clark University’s International Development, Community & Environment (IDCE) department to its Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program, a graduate fellowship that offers financial assistance to returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs) and places them in degree-related, professional internships in underserved American communities. Through the program, RPCVs admitted to Clark’s IDCE graduate programs…