{"id":25493,"date":"2025-10-21T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/?post_type=story&p=25493"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:56:13","slug":"a-clark-education-is-powerfully-different","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2025\/10\/21\/a-clark-education-is-powerfully-different\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Clark education is powerfully different\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Ron Shaich \u201976, L.H.D. \u201914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ron Shaich \u201976, L.H.D. \u201914, came to Clark to study government and assumed he would go on to earn a degree in law. But like many Clarkies, his time on campus exposed him to new and unexpected experiences, fresh perspectives, and alternative pathways toward personal transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI came to Clark in 1972. There was intellectual energy. … It struck me as a place with powerful guidance, and it ended up being probably the most formative experience of my life,\u201d he once told The Worcester Telegram & Gazette<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While a sophomore at Clark, Shaich was tossed out of a local convenience store. \u201cI came back and said, \u2018This is ridiculous, putting up with this nonsense. We should have our own student-run community store.\u2019 \u201d Clark students raised the money, and in the summer between his sophomore and junior years, Shaich led the effort to convert a triple-decker on Downing Street into the General Store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n