Education
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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…
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Return on Education website illustrates value of a Clark degree
What is a college education worth? The question is both blunt and pervasive, and it’s at the forefront for many prospective students and their parents, who are weighing the value of a college diploma against the expense of earning it. Families are looking for schools that not only provide an excellent education, but will also…
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Gurel lecturer calls for a ‘data crusade’ in education system
In a world awash with information, where everyone from retailers to online dating services gathers, studies and deploys targeted data to improve performance, it stands to reason that the United States’ education system would make similar strides to boost student achievement. But that hasn’t been so. According to Aimee Rogstad Guidera, executive director of National…
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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.…
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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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$500,000 gift intensifies Clark focus on urban education
Clark alumnus and former Worcester resident Lee Gurel, Ph.D., of Alexandria, Va., has given $500,000 to the University to establish the Endowed Education Fund, aiming to help “share the secret” of Clark’s model of effective urban education. The gift provides for a permanent endowment designed to help close the gap between research and practice, promising…