Clark In the News

President David Angel’s blog featured on The Huffington Post - Wed, 16 May 2012
Clark University President David Angel has entered the blogosphere, writing about the issues affecting higher education, on the national news site The Huffington Post. His first blog makes the case for the value of a college education in a challenging and fluid economy, and he notes how universities are helping their students and recent graduates [...]

New Clark survey of emerging adults reveals views on education - Tue, 15 May 2012
The “Now” generation says “Wait” - New Clark poll reveals fast-moving emerging adults won’t skip college and view it as ultimate success ticket. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s top CEOs all skipped college.  PayPal’s CEO and Co-Founder Peter Thiel is paying $100,000 to young inventors to drop out of college and get [...]

Peace Corps partners with IDCE in graduate fellowship program - Thu, 10 May 2012
The Peace Corps has welcomed Clark University’s International Development, Community & Environment (IDCE) department to its Paul D. Coverdell Fellows program, a graduate fellowship that offers financial assistance to returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs) and places them in degree-related, professional internships in underserved American communities. Through the program, RPCVs admitted to Clark’s IDCE graduate programs [...]

Clark students recognized, present at Ethnic Studies Conference - Thu, 10 May 2012
Five Clark University students and two faculty members attended and presented at the 40th annual conference of the National Association for Ethnic Studies (NAES), held April 4-7 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Elizabeth Guarino ’13, an English major, won the Cortland Auser Undergraduate Student Paper Competition for “The Impacts of the ‘Ethnic Studies’ Law on the K-12 [...]

Clark undergraduates receive Steinbrecher Fellowships to support creative research - Wed, 09 May 2012
Ten Clark University undergraduate students were recently named Steinbrecher Fellows; all will undertake projects this summer and during the 2012-2013 academic year.  The Steinbrecher Fellowship Program was established in 2006 to encourage and support Clark undergraduates’ pursuit of original ideas, creative research, and community service projects. The 2012-2013 Steinbrecher Fellows and their projects are: Alison [...]