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Leading expert on campus rape, sexual assault speaks at Clark
The Clark Anti-Violence Education (CAVE) program brought David Lisak, the pre-eminent expert on rape and sexual assault on college campuses, to Clark University on November 16. “Let’s stop using the term date rape,” Lisak urged an audience in Tilton Hall, pointing out how connotations “hint at acquiescence.” Fifteen percent of American women have been raped sometime in…
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Prominent education historian to deliver lecture at Clark on Dec. 1
One of the nation’s pre-eminent critics of high stakes testing, historian and author Diane Ravitch, will deliver the inaugural Dr. Lee Gurel ’48 Lecture at Clark University, “How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education,” at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 1, in Tilton Hall at the Higgins University Center. Ravitch will talk about where the movement to reform…
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Clark’s got talent: Critical MASS wins Consortium competition
Critical MASS, a student dance group from Clark University, won the top prize at “Consortium’s Got Talent,” a contest sponsored by the Colleges of Worcester Consortium, held Nov. 12 at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts. Chosen by audience vote, the winners received bragging rights and $1,000 from the evening’s cosponsor, Foley’s Collision Center. Critical MASS,…
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Clark partners with Chapman University for innovative graduate fellowship in Holocaust history
Clark University and Chapman University, in Orange, Calif., will partner to create a new graduate fellowship in Holocaust history, the two universities announced today (Nov. 10). The fellowship will be offered as a “unique and innovative academic collaboration” between the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman and the Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark. The…
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Princeton Review ‘Best 300 Business Schools’ recommends GSOM as strong, smart, innovative
The Graduate School of Management at Clark University is listed among the nation’s best in The Princeton Review’s 2011 edition of “The Best 300 Business Schools.” The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) is a diverse community of learners, researchers, and business professionals that prepares future leaders to think critically, manage collaboratively and contribute to their organizations and…
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Clark students, faculty plan return to Haiti over Thanksgiving break
Twenty-two Clark University students will spend their Thanksgiving break in a distinctly non-Norman Rockwell setting as they engage in a field course to help develop sustainable agriculture projects with staff and students from the University of Notre Dame d’Haiti (UNDH) school of agronomy in Les Cayes. The course, part of Clark’s Haiti Relief Initiative, serves as…
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Autumn brilliance: Students share their research at annual Fall Fest
More than 50 students occupied the Goddard Library on Wednesday, Nov. 3, crowding the Academic Commons main corridor and spilling into the second-floor circulation lobby – all in the name of research. The students were participating in Clark’s annual Fall Fest, where they explained and showcased their academic research projects, with accompanying posters and interactive…
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‘Black Arts to Hip Hop’ at Clark, with poet/activist Sonia Sanchez
Internationally renowned, award-winning poet and activist/scholar Sonia Sanchez will share her dynamic work about the evolution of revolutionary black art and politics in “From Black Arts to Hip Hop: Implications for the 21st Century,” a free, public lecture presented by the Higgins School for Humanities at Clark University, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in Razzo Hall, Traina Center for the Arts, 92 Downing St. Sanchez, formerly professor of English and Women’s Studies at Temple University, is the recipient of both the Robert…
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Clark names new athletics director
Sean Sullivan, the Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for Athletics and Recreation at York (Pa.) College for the past seven years, has been named the Director of Athletics and Recreation at Clark University, President David P. Angel announced on Wednesday. “I am deeply honored to be asked to join the Clark family and support the…
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Clark University cited by Kiplinger’s as top-50 ‘Best Value’
Clark University is among the top 50 institutions named as the nation’s Best Values in Private Colleges for 2010-2011 by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine, a ranking of the “top schools that exemplify excellent academics while keeping their costs to a minimum.” * To read more about Clark University in the current rankings, click here. * Clark stands…