{"id":14590,"date":"2019-08-26T20:51:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T20:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/26\/the-class-of-2023-embarks-on-its-clark-university-experience\/"},"modified":"2025-04-04T14:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:21:50","slug":"the-class-of-2023-embarks-on-its-clark-university-experience","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/26\/the-class-of-2023-embarks-on-its-clark-university-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Class of 2023 embarks on its Clark University experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n

New faculty, courses greet large first-year class<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n The Class of 2023 began its Clark journey on Move-In Day, Aug. 22, 2019.\n

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What do a trapeze artist, map collector, national swimming champion, and an interpreter for refugees have in common?<\/p>\n

They are all members of the Clark University Class of 2023.<\/p>\n

Clark began the 2019–2020 academic year by welcoming its largest first-year class in a decade. A total of 665 first-year students — 17.5 percent of whom are first-generation college students — from 25 countries, along with 47 transfer students, attended their first Clark classes on Aug. 26.<\/p>\n

The University also welcomes seven tenure-track faculty members to campus this fall, with an eighth arriving in the spring.\n<\/p>\n