Administration
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Clark University Vice President Jack Foley honored by United Way
Jack Foley, the Vice President for Government and Community Affairs and Campus Services for Clark University, was presented with the Orville Harrold Community Leadership Award by the United Way of Central Massachusetts at its Annual Celebration on May 8. The Orville Harrold Award recognizes a person or organization that best embodies the characteristics of Orville…
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Betsy Huang leads Clark University Office of Diversity and Inclusion
Last September, Clark University’s Higgins School of Humanities was awarded a $600,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation following a complex, sometimes grueling application process successfully executed by a team of faculty and staff. Associate Professor of English Betsy Huang spent over a year on the project, and was excited about turning her full attention to teaching and…
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Clark University appoints Julie Dolan new EVP, treasurer
Clark University President David Angel recently announced the appointment of Julie L. Dolan as the next Executive Vice President and Treasurer of the University. Dolan comes to Clark from Fairfield University where she has held the position of Vice President for Finance and Treasurer since 2010. Prior to Fairfield, she was Associate Vice President for Fiscal Affairs at Dartmouth College,…
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Past tense: William Koelsch’s book illuminates Clark history
“Check the Koelsch book.” It’s the standard response to the innumerable questions that arise about Clark’s past. Why was anthropology professor Franz Boas’ research considered revolutionary for its time? Which United States president delivered Clark’s 1905 commencement address? How did Clark students respond during wartime, from the world wars through Vietnam? “Check the Koelsch book.”…
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Clark’s founder and its first president were higher education’s odd couple
Despite the competing visions of Jonas Clark and G. Stanley Hall, a world-class university was born
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Mortimer Appley, Clark’s sixth president, passes away at 90
Mortimer H. Appley, the sixth president of Clark University, died Thursday, March 29, at the age of 90. Appley was inaugurated as Clark president on July 1, 1974, and served for 10 years. “The Clark community is saddened to learn of the death of Mort Appley, an accomplished academician, who also provided a firm hand…
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Mary-Ellen Boyle eager to assume role as dean of the college on June 1
Mary-Ellen Boyle lived in Worcester for many years before she joined the Clark University faculty full time in 1999 as a management professor. She was initially attracted to Clark’s reputation for partnering with the city, and, more specifically, with its Main South neighborhood. Today, she’s determined that a Clark student’s education extends beyond the school…
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Students, dignitaries, neighbors celebrate planting of ‘Traina Tree’
The Worcester Tree Initiative is planting thousands of trees across the city to reclaim the urban forest decimated by the Asian long-horned beetle and the 2008 ice storm, but one white oak taking root in Main South holds special significance for the Clark University community. On April 29, Arbor Day, Congressman James McGovern, state Rep.…
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Clark mourns death of former president Richard P. Traina
Two days after it opened in 1997, the University Park Campus School played host to state dignitaries including Governor Paul Cellucci. Called upon to speak, Clark President Richard P. Traina called the school’s first students forward to the podium with him, positioning the seventh graders in front of the politicians. Donna Rodrigues, who was the principal at the time, remembers the moment well. “He would step right in front with…
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Former President Traina honored by biotech, business leaders
Retired Clark president Richard Traina has been renowned for building partnerships in some of the unlikeliest places. He forged ties between his university and the surrounding neighborhood, whose relationship was often troubled, and between Worcester’s business and academic communities, which regarded each other with suspicion that could border on hostility. Traina seized on those challenges…