Clark University
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Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States, is a private teaching and research institution founded in 1887. It is the smallest research university in the nation and was the second oldest all-graduate institution. Clark is one of only three New England universities, with Harvard and Yale, to be a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Clark withdrew membership from the Association of American Universities in the late 1990s.
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History and Background
Clark's first president was G. Stanley Hall, founder of the American Psychological Association, who earned the first Ph.D. in psychology in the United States at Harvard. Clark has played a prominent role in the development of psychology as a distinguished discipline in the United States. Clark was the location for Sigmund Freud's famous "Clark Lectures" in 1909, introducing psychoanalysis to this country. Franz Boas, founder of American cultural anthropology, taught briefly at Clark between 1888 and 1892 before resigning (in a dispute with Hall over academic freedom) and moving to Columbia University. Albert Abraham Michelson, the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics, served as a professor from 1889 to 1892. In the 1920's Robert Goddard, a pioneer of rocketry, considered one of the founders of space and missile technology, served as chairman of the Physics Department.
Located in an industrial, residential neighborhood ("Main South") of the New England mill town of Worcester, Clark benefited for many years from the patronage of the wealthy factory owner families in the town, who saw the numerous colleges in their city as a cultural endowment that might lift the factory-working population of the city to a more sophisticated level.
Clark has a long history of community involvement and partnering. In 1985, the university engaged in a partnership with community groups and business organizations to revitalize Clark neighborhoods. Clark’s efforts in the University Park Partnership program include refurbishing dilapidated or abandoned homes, reselling them to area residents, and subsidizing mortgages for new home buyers. In 1997, Clark opened a secondary public school, the University Park Campus School (UPCS) that is also a professional development school for Clark’s teacher education program.Because of its long hours and demanding curricula, UPCS has been lauded as a model for collaboration between a university and an urban district. Students are able to attend Clark University free of charge upon graduation, provided they meet certain residency and admissions requirements. In the May 16, 2005 issue of Newsweek, UPCS was named the 68th best high school in the nation.
Recent Developments
In recent years, Clark has received great media coverage for its "fifth-year free" program. Under Clark's BA/MA program with the fifth year free, undergraduates who maintain a B+ average are eligible for tuition-free enrollment into its one year graduate programs, meaning that they can get a master of arts degree for the price of a bachelor's degree.
Clark has flourished, marketing its programs off-campus and accepting a student body largely from out of the city and often from out of the state. Its graduate programs recruit students worldwide. Clark has developed a reputation as a free-thinking institution, where crIn recent years, Clark has been noted especially for its geography and psychology departments, with the latter having a distinctive, if increasingly unfashionable "humanistic" orientation (humanistic psychology).The School of Geography was founded by then President Wallace Attwood in 1921 and is the first institution in the United States established for graduate study in this science. It has granted more doctoral degrees than any other geography program in the country. The geography department is best known for its strength in human-environment geography and for the development of the Idrisi geographic information systems software. It was ranked #1 for undergraduate geography by Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges and has consistently been ranked in the top 10 in the nation by other publications. itical debate flourishes. Its mission is ambitious: "to educate undergraduate and graduate students to be imaginative and contributing citizens of the world, and to advance the frontiers of knowledge and understanding through rigorous scholarship and creative effort."
Notable Alumni
- Adelbert Ames, Jr.
- Jill Beck
- Joseph I. France
- Arnold Gesell
- Robert Goddard
- Solomon Lefschetz
- Margaret Morse Nice
- Paul Pena
- Frederick Madison Smith
- Lewis Madison Terman
- Alexander Francis Chamberlain
- Blue Man Group (Matt Goldman)
- John Heard, Actor
- Jeffrey Lurie - Owner of Philadelphia Eagles
- Ronald Shaich - CEO of Panera Bread; Founder of Au Bon Pain
- Robert Hurst - Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs Group
- Sam Draper - Draper Inc.
- William Mosakowski - President, Public Consulting Group, Inc.
Commencement Speakers
- 2005: David S. Broder
- 2004: Hon.Margaret H. Marshall
- 2003: Mark Shields
- 2002: Amartya Sen
- 2001: Phyllis Franklin
- 2000: Kurt L. Schmoke
- 1999: Deval Patrick
- 1998: Mark Gearan
- 1997: Charles MacCormack
- 1996: Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
- 1995: Timothy E. Wirth
- 1994: Robert MacNeil
- 1985: John Kerry
- 1905: Theodore Roosevelt
Trivia
- Its students are referred to as Clarkies.
- Research at Clark led to the birth control pill.
- The first breakthrough in understanding how brain tissue regenerates itself was at Clark.
- The Sigmund Freud statue in Red Square is regularly humped by drunk students late at night.