Clark University greets every new academic year with excitement and news about changes on campus. This fall, students, faculty and the entire campus community formally set out under the banner of LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), Clark’s pioneering model for higher education. LEEP builds upon the historic and distinctive strengths of Clark and fully integrates…

Forget those TV ads where parents gleefully anticipate “alone time” as they wave goodbye to their college-bound children. For most parents of emerging adults, back-to-school time means missing their best friends. The 2013 Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults  finds that parents and their emerging adults get along well, much better than they did when…

The Princeton Review has again recognized Clark University as one of the country’s best institutions for undergraduate education. Clark is included in the education services company’s 2014 annual college guide, “The Best 378 Colleges,” released August 6. Only about 15 percent of America’s 2,500 four-year colleges, and four colleges outside the United States, are profiled…

Clark University has been ranked a top college in Massachusetts for return on investment. AffordableCollegesOnline.org (AC Online) recently launched a new ranking: “AC Online: Highest Return on Investment Colleges in Massachusetts,” which identifies the 51 colleges in Massachusetts where degrees pay off the most. Graduates from these schools enjoy the largest earnings gap between non-degree holders…

Clark University appears in Forbes’ annual “America’s Top Colleges” report; it is #150 on the list of 650 schools recognized this year. Besides the overall ranking, Clark appears as #112 in Private Colleges, #76 in Research Universities, and #71 in the Northeast. This is the sixth year Forbes has partnered exclusively with the Washington, D.C.-based Center for College Affordability and…

How can teachers make room in their busy working lives to develop their practice together? The answer may be waiting right within their classrooms, or in a colleague’s just down the hall. In “Teacher Rounds: A Guide to Collaborative Learning in and From Practice” (Sage Publications May 2013), Thomas Del Prete, director of the Adam…

The new Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults contradicts the long-held notion that adult children living with their parents are a source of stress and disruption in the household. The Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults reveals that the majority of parents of 18- to 29-year-olds insists their lives are not compromised by…

Student, three others killed in Haiti crash

The 2014 revised and updated Fiske Guide to Colleges includes Clark University as a “Best Buy” among the list of  “best and most interesting of the more than 2,200 four-year colleges in the United States.” Clark is one of just 41 institutions — 21 public and 20 private — to receive the Fiske “Best Buy” rating, which identifies…