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Making Black Lives Matter on Earth: Teach-in dialogue looks at race and climate activism

Session Two of the March 23 Climate Change Teach-in at Clark University was organized around the question, How do we choose to respond? The session comprised nine conversation groups or panels. One panel, Making Black Lives Matter on Earth, examined racial justice and environmental movements, revealing connections and disconnections between them. More than 50 attendees filled concentric seating, facing panelists and…
Clark University leads the way on Innovation Schools partnership

A unique group of schools in the Main South neighborhood, in close partnership with Clark University, is drawing attention for its laser-sharp focus on student needs. The Innovation Schools neighborhood partnership, the first such cluster in Massachusetts, offers a new approach that allows schools to operate with both more freedom and personalization. “This is a pre-K-16,…
Clark alum named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list

Rebecca Liebman is shining a light in what some consider to be a most confusing place — financial literacy for 20-somethings — and the world is taking notice. The 2015 Clark graduate co-founded LearnLux, a free website that teaches millennials personal finance skills, with her brother Michael two years ago. Just this week, Forbes magazine named her to…
A reality show that’s actually real

Award-winning Clark professor helps city students tell their stories through film
Clark U. grad receives Fulbright, heads to Taiwan to teach English

Sara B. Goldstein B.A. ’14/M.A. ’15 has received a 2015-2016 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Taiwan. Goldstein will participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program, a program that places recent college graduates and young professionals as English teaching assistants in primary and secondary schools or universities overseas. Goldstein will represent the U.S. as a cultural…
Clark professor, alumnus examines slavery’s depiction in contemporary children’s books

The legacy of slavery might be discussed widely in the Caribbean, but here in the United States we struggle with how to teach the past to our children. So noted Raphael Rogers ’94, assistant professor of education at Clark University, in his Nov. 13 Higgins School lecture, “Slavery on their Minds: Representing the ‘Peculiar Institution’ in Contemporary Children’s Picture…
LEEP: Clark Leads an Education Movement

The following remarks were delivered by Clark University Trustee Richard M. Freeland (above), former Commissioner of Higher Education for Massachusetts and former president of Northeastern University, at the Jonas Clark Fellows Dinner in Washington, D.C. LEEP: Where tradition meets transformation For some years Clark University has represented itself to the world through a phrase: “Challenge Convention. Change…
Clark senior helps Worcester schoolchildren combat ‘summer slide’

Sadie Hazelkorn ’15 started working with the Worcester Education Collaborative (WEC) last September to fulfill an internship requirement for her capstone in Urban Politics and she’s been working with them ever since. Hazelkorn spent the past few months in Worcester creating literacy programs for local students. Hazelkorn recently held workshops where area schoolchildren created cookbooks…
Claremont Academy awarded state Innovation Schools Fellowship

In partnership with Clark University, city high school will focus on college readiness
President Angel, as Higher Ed Consortium Board Chair, opens new offices in downtown Worcester

Clark University President David P. Angel, as Board Chair of the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA), speaks at the grand opening of new offices in downtown Worcester. Clark University President David P. Angel, in his role as Board Chair of the Higher Education Consortium of Central Massachusetts (HECCMA), led a grand opening and ribbon cutting…