Former President David Angel
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Harrington Foundation commits $3M to support Boys and Girls Club
Sometimes a simple, straightforward response is all that’s required. At least that’s what former Clark University Trustee James H. (Jim) Harrington told dozens of city officials and community leaders, board members and past presidents of the Boys & Girls Club of Worcester in the lobby of the 65 Tainter Street facility this morning. It was…
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Presidents lead Difficult Dialogues series on livelihood and career
Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella, Clark President David Angel, faculty and students gathered in Dana Commons Oct. 18 to grapple with the issue of how liberal arts colleges are preparing students for lives of work. The event, titled “Livelihood and Vocation,” was the third symposium in “Educating … for What?” — this semester’s Difficult Dialogues…
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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…
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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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‘A special discipline’: Clark geographers feted in Washington
The setting was as appropriate as a setting could be. The National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C. was the site of a March 15 reception honoring five distinguished geographers with Clark ties who are members of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. Clark boasts more NAS members in the area of geography than any comparable…
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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…
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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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Goulet, Muro receive Lund Community Achievement Awards
Clark University President David Angel presented the 2010 John W. Lund Community Achievement Award to two outstanding members of the Clark community. The recipients are University Police Chief Stephen Goulet and senior student Miranda Muro. Goulet, of North Grafton, Mass., was recognized for going beyond his duties in public safety by working as a member of the Main…
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President Angel formally installed; looks to ‘propel Clark forward’
Under sunny skies, David P. Angel was sworn in as Clark University’s ninth president today, Sept. 24 The ceremony drew hundreds of alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends under a tent set up on the campus green, as well as students who sat on the grass to observe the induction ceremony. Delegates from colleges and…
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Pre-Inauguration events continuing to celebrate, engage, entertain
Clark’s pre-Inauguration ceremony events have enlightened and entertained hundreds of Clark alumni, students, faculty and staff who have participated or attended such events as the Passport Dinner, Blue Man Group performance and formal Inaugural Dinner. An Inaugural Symposium explores some of the most pressing challenges facing society today. It features a series of panel discussions by…