• A lesson in politics

    A lesson in politics

    Clark students debate immigration reform during U.S. Senate simulation at Edward M. Kennedy Institute

  • 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…

  • Students in the class of 2018 tell their stories

    There’s an adage in journalism that everybody has a story. The LEEP Center set out to prove it true in a fun and revealing Orientation exercise in which first-year students were asked to compose personal narratives that will help them chart their unique Clark paths. The Aug. 23 session, “Telling Your Story,” held in Atwood Hall, introduced…

  • $600K Mellon Foundation grant backs Clark humanities initiative

    In September 2012, Clark University was awarded $600,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support Humanities Present, a new initiative of the Higgins School of Humanities that promises to have a critical impact on the Clark curriculum and to contribute to Clark’s Liberal Education and Effective Practice (LEEP) initiative. “This generous Mellon Foundation grant allows us to fully explore the role…

  • 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…

  • LEEP Provides a Solid Foundation

    Champo Mapulanga ’12, an economics major from Zambia, talks about LEEP, Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a traditional liberal arts experience with authentic engagement in the world and workplace. This summer she will be an intern at the Institute of Economics and International Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

  • LEEP springs ahead with kickoff celebration and conversation

    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…