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Clark President David Angel discusses LEEP

President David Angel Clark discusses how a Clark education prepares students for life, career and citizenship. Thirty guidance counselors and consultants from across the country spent March 18 and 19 at Clark to learn about the University and engage in dialogue about how the needs of young adults will be met by higher education. Read more…
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…
Architect John Johansen recalls Goddard Library’s opening chapter

John M. Johansen considered the audience seated before him inside the Robert Hutchings Goddard Library’s Rare Book Room, and offered a humble assessment of the building he designed 43 years ago. “Architects think of their most recent work as being their best,” he said. “But they can come back to earlier work and they…
LEEP springs ahead with kickoff celebration and conversation

Students streamed into Tilton Hall yesterday to launch themselves off a platform, strike mid-air poses, and land in the welcome padding of a high-jump mat, their indoor flights caught on camera for posterity. These aerial acrobatics — executed, appropriately, on Leap Day — heralded the official announcement of LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), Clark…
Clark Admissions slated to go SAT/ACT optional for fall 2013

Clark University will make the submission of standardized test scores an optional part of the admissions process, beginning with the class enrolling in Fall 2013. Clark’s decision to institute a test-optional policy follows an extensive study by the Office of Admissions and the Clark faculty. “By taking a holistic view of a student’s capabilities, character and promise, we…
Class of 2011 ‘leading already’ in time of ‘great transformation’

Clark University celebrated its 107th Commencement—the first under the stewardship of Clark’s ninth President, David P. Angel—on Sunday, May 22. Degrees were granted to 1,045 Clark graduates: 524 baccalaureate, 486 masters, and 35 doctoral. Alan Khazei, the founder and chief executive officer of Be the Change Inc. and City Year co-founder, delivered the Commencement address. Khazei recalled his journey as an unemployed graduate to someone who has created a nationwide national service…
Clark, city announce Main South field complex, park revitalization

City, state and federal officials joined President David Angel last week to celebrate two initiatives that will perpetuate what one legislator described as “the Main South Miracle.” On March 23, local leaders gathered in a vacant lot on Kilby Street, just beyond the Clark campus, to announce that the Main South Community Development Corporation had…
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…
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…
Clark gets $260K Davis Foundation grant to support LEEP initiative

Clark University has received a $260,338 grant to support key components of its Liberal Education and Effective Practice Initiative (LEEP), a multi-year, campus-wide program that aims to re-invent traditional, undergraduate liberal education. The grant was received from the Davis Educational Foundation, established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis’s retirement as chairman of Shaw’s Supermarkets, Inc.…