ClarkU News

  • Clark’s CDP program partners with Worcester on families, food economy

    Clark’s CDP program partners with Worcester on families, food economy

    The professors and students in Clark’s Community Development and Planning (CDP) program learn from and work alongside members of the very community they want to transform. Their research not only pursues solutions to problems besetting urban neighborhoods, but also helps governments and nonprofits aspire to a more socially just world. Food and the local economy Associate Professor Ramón…

  • Ross’ work highlights experience, ‘sixth sense’ of youth workers

    Ross’ work highlights experience, ‘sixth sense’ of youth workers

    Worcester City Councilor Khrystian King knows teen violence firsthand. By the time he was in his 20s, he had lost three friends to gun violence and served as a pallbearer at two of their funerals. Since then, he has worked to better the lives of youth and families, as a mentor, social worker and the first black…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • For Darius Shirzadi ’94, soccer is the pitch

    Alum uses passion for soccer to promote educational opportunity, help at-risk kids excel

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