What marks the beginning of true adulthood? Parents and their 18- to 29-year-old emerging adult children agree that the most important indicator is accepting responsibility for the consequences of your actions and mistakes, according to a new Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults, the definitive national survey of this demographic group. The finding contradicts long-held assumptions that financial independence, completing college or even getting married are the ultimate markers of adulthood.

The new poll of more than 1,000 parents follows on the 2012 Clark University Poll of Emerging Adults.

“The new findings show that parents have mixed feelings about the fact that kids take longer than in the past to reach adulthood,” says Clark University Professor of Psychology and Poll Director Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, Ph.D. “Most parents are fairly confident that eventually their kids will make their way into stable roles of marriage and steady work. Yet, many parents see the longer road to adulthood as negative rather than positive.”   

SOME NEW FINDINGS:

Do parents see their 18-29-year-olds kids as adults?

Not the younger ones, but increasingly as their kids pass through the twenties. In response to the question, “Do you feel that your child has reached adulthood?” only 29% of parents of 18-21-year-olds say “yes,” but this rises to 75% for parents of 26-29-year-olds.

What is the key to becoming an adult?

“Accepting responsibility for yourself” – 50% parents/36% emerging adults
“Becoming financially independent” – 22% parents/30% emerging adults
“Finishing education”– 5% parents/16% emerging adults
“Getting married” – 2% parents/4% emerging adults

Is the longer road to adulthood a good or bad thing?

Mostly negative – 43% parents
Mostly positive – 13% parents
Both positive and negative – 44% parents

Will my emerging adult child ever find a spouse?

“Not at all concerned” – 57% parents
“Very concerned” – 6% parents

Will my emerging adult child ever find a stable job?

“Not at all concerned” – 40% parents
“Very concerned” – 18% parents
(61% of 18-29-year-olds say that “I haven’t been able to find the kind of job I really want.”)

Is my emerging adult child taking too long to become financially independent?

“Not at all concerned” – 50%
“Very concerned – 17%
(89% of emerging adults agree “I am confident that eventually I will get what I want out of life.”)

The 2013 Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults was developed by Arnett, who coined the term “emerging adulthood.” He recently co-authored (with Elisabeth Fishel) “When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up: Loving and Understanding Your Emerging Adult” (Workman; May 2013). The book offers insights into how parents and their emerging adult children can navigate this stage in their relationship/development.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, MA, Clark University (www.clarku.edu) is a small, liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale.

Allen Glick ’63, with his wife Iris and President David Angel, was given the Distinguished Alumni Award.

Clark University honored Allen Glick ’63 with the Distinguished Alumni Award, and Richard Boucher ’03, M.B.A. ’04, and Anthony Colon ’03, M.P.A. ’04, received the Young Alumni Award at the May 17 Reunion Weekend Dinner.

Earlier that day, Dr. Lee Gurel ’48 received the Fiat Lux Award for Extraordinary Service by a Legacy Society Member.

Glick, who built a successful auto dealership business, served on Clark’s Board of Trustees for 14 years, and served on the Audit, Major Gifts, and Investment committees, and as chair of the Audit Committee for several years.

In 1973, he established The Lillian and Selig Glick Scholarship Fund in honor of his parents, followed by the Allen M. Glick Chair in Judaic and Biblical Studies, in 1996. He most recently established the Dr. William E. Topkin ’60, M.A. Ed. ’63, Ed.D. ’67, Scholarship Fund in honor of his cousin, who is a former dean of students at Clark and a Clark trustee emeritus. He is a member of Clark’s Legacy Society and a charter member of the Jonas Clark Fellows.

“At a time in his life when he could have ridden off into the sunset, Allen has remained a steadfast, loyal and totally involved contributor to all facets of Clark,” said Everett Fox, the Allen M. Glick Professor of Judaic and Biblical Studies. “Without Allen’s caring and generosity, I could not do the work that I do, I could not do the research that I do, I could not teach the courses that I do.”

This year, for the first time, the University presented the Young Alumni Award to a Clark couple. Both Boucher and Colon have been class agents, served on their Reunion Committee, been advocates for Clark in the Miami region, and have attended many Clark events.

Anthony Colon ’03, M.P.A. ’04, and Richard Boucher ’03, M.B.A. ’04, offer remarks following the presentation of the Young Alumni Award.

Colon manages a portfolio of real estate investments and remains focused on addressing housing and community economic development issues through nonprofits and philanthropic organizations. Boucher is director of special events for the South East Region of the Macy’s Parade and Entertainment Group.

Colon noted that Clark was always tolerant when “it was not as popular being young and in a relationship with someone of the same gender. Clark never saw it that way. Clark was very embracing; and the spirit of the Clarkie is to challenge convention. We were doing that just by being ourselves.”

“This place is truly transformational,” Boucher said. “You get to explore and learn who you are here. It’s truly an honor to be recognized for the work we do.”

Dr. Gurel’s philanthropic support of Clark has been far-reaching. In 1995, he established The Lee Gurel / John E. Bell Endowed Student / Faculty Achievement Award, for an outstanding psychology student and the professor deemed most critical to his/her success. This was followed in 1999 by the Gurel Asian Studies Prize, which is presented each year at Convocation to an outstanding student in Asian Studies.

Dr. Lee Gurel ’48 received the Fiat Lux Award for Extraordinary Service by a Legacy Society Member.

In 2004, Dr. Gurel endowed a Psychology Enhancement of Teaching fund at Clark to support a partnership with the American Psychological Association. This partnership resulted in an annual workshop for high school teachers, held at Clark, to advance the teaching of psychology at the pre-collegiate level. Most recently, in October 2009, he established the Lee Gurel Endowed Education Fund to help leverage the effectiveness of the Mosakowski Institute. This fund supports The Gurel Speakers Fund, The Gurel Faculty Development Fund and The Gurel Student Research Fellowship Fund.

In accepting his award, Dr. Gurel said his donations to Clark University were “sent as partial payment of the massive debt I owed to schools and to education in general, and to Clark in particular. How else could I have given lectures or published scientific papers? And how else would I have the honor of standing before you today?”

Dr. Gurel noted that the size of one’s contribution to Clark University is of no matter.

“It’s the act of paying off some of your debt, not the amount of payment, that lifts the weight off your shoulders and leaves you feeling very satisfied,” he said.

Tara J. Barnes '15 received funding so that she can serve as an intern at Year Up, a nonprofit organization in Providence, R.I., that provides urban young adults with the skills, experience, and support that will empower them to reach their potential through professional careers and higher education.  Barnes will serve as an admissions intern and will be responsible for the many aspects of the admissions process including interviewing and assessing prospective students for the program; advertising the program through mailings, social media, and outreach visits; managing the admissions calendar and database; and attending weekly debriefing sessions with advisors and students from the program.  Barnes majors in political science.

Tatiana Chunis '14

Tatiana E. Chunis '14 will intern at The Esperanza Project in the Dominican Republic.  As a camp counselor in the rural village of Cabrera in the Dominican Republic, Chunis will be planning and leading daily sports activities and lessons for a group of children throughout the summer.  The Esperanza Project works to provide consistent and quality education to the children in Cabrera that will help them be successful in their village and have the opportunities to travel and work in other communities as well. Chunis is a psychology major.

Deborah Ibonwa '14 will intern in Congresswoman Chellie Pingree’s Office, and work with constituents, elected officials, business and community leaders, and state and federal agencies to address and alleviate the problems of residents of the First District through managing constituent mail, emails, and phone calls. She will write letters ranging from notes of congratulations to well-researched responses to constituent concerns. Ibonwa will also be responsible for various tasks including processing tour and flag requests, performing general office duties, learning a complex Congressional data base, and working on projects as assigned by legislative and constituent staff specializing in specific topic areas.  Ibonwa majors in political science.

John Preston '14

John J. Preston '14 will intern at COIN: Centro de Orientación e Investigación Integral, a non-profit public health organization that works with the vulnerable and marginalized groups in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to prevent HIV infection and to raise awareness about and provide access to personal health solutions.  Preston will be working as the Translation and Public Relations intern for two projects within the COIN organization: COTRAVETD, which serves the trans sex workers in the city, and actitUD, which serves injection drug users. He will be translating email, documents and any relevant articles from journalistic and academic publications which would serve the purposes of COIN. He will also translate the website and COIN’s web-based materials into English so that they can expand their network and create an international image.  Preston majors in comparative literature.

Lillian Schley '15

Lillian B. Schley '15 will intern at the Apollinaire Theatre Company, in Chelsea, Mass.  In her position as an administrative intern, she will be assisting the stage manager with organizational tasks for their summer production of “The Caucasian Chalk Circle.” Schley will help with research and dramaturgy for the play and will be involved in marketing and outreach; she will also serve as an usher during the play performances. Schley majors in theater.

Rachel A. Spera '14 received funds to support her internship at Cure Violence, in Washington, D.C.  There she will be creating projects, setting up meetings, and putting programs in place for offices to use as a means to find a cure of violence in Latin American communities.  She will be involved in all aspects of the organization and its day-to-day operation and work closely with the head of the branch to get this one-year-old branch of Cure Violence in motion. Working on projects in Latin America will allow Spera to develop and refine her Spanish. Spera is a psychology major.

Matthew Thompson '14

Matthew F. Thompson '14 will intern at the Center for Comparative NeuroImaging (CCNI), UMass. Thompson will conduct independent research to further investigate the complex interaction between addiction and ADHD in the brain. Studies conducted by the CCNI have demonstrated that adolescent smokers with ADHD tend to be more addicted to cigarettes and crave them more than adolescents without the disorder. He will further evaluate this connection in relations to brain functioning, cognition, and behavior in both rats and human models. Thompson majors in biology and psychology.

Tyler Dahlberg, GISDE ’14

Azavea, an award-winning geospatial analysis (GIS) software development company, has announced that Tyler Dahlberg (GISDE ’14) is one of three students named winners of its second Summer of Maps. Inspired by the Google Summer of Code, Azavea Summer of Maps is a program that offers $5,000 stipends to student GIS analysts to perform pro bono geospatial data analysis projects for nonprofit organizations during the summer of 2013. Azavea received applications from students and nonprofits from across the United States.

Dahlberg will be working with the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia on the analysis and visualization of bicycle activity in Philadelphia; and with the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger on the visualization of high-need residents and underserved areas in the city.

Like the first Summer of Maps in 2012, this year both national and regional nonprofit organizations applied with a wide array of potential spatial analysis projects that spanned domains as varied as arts and culture, environment, community and economic development, public health and food, elections and politics, transportation, and family services.

The majority of the student applications came from students at regional Philadelphia universities like Temple University, University of Pennsylvania and Bryn Mawr, but a significant number were submitted from as far away as Middlebury College, Harvard University, The New School University, University of California Davis, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

From June to August, the fellows will:

• Work on a spatial analysis project that supports the social mission of two nonprofit organizations
• Work with Azavea mentors to improve their GIS and project-management skills
• Receive a monthly stipend
• Gain work experience implementing real-world GIS projects.

“The quality of the applications we received from both the nonprofit organizations and students was outstanding,” said Robert Cheetham, Azavea CEO and president. “Competition was fierce, which made it challenging for us to select winning organizations and students. What this showed us, though, is that a lot of nonprofits are asking very sophisticated spatial data analysis questions in support of their missions. I am very excited that Azavea will have a chance to work with these top students implementing projects with social and civic value.”

Dahlberg graduated from Iowa State University and currently works as research assistant for Professor Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger and as a writing tutor in the International Development, Community, and Environment Department at Clark. He is primarily interested in GIS as it applies to issues of public health and environmental exposure, as well as water conservation issues. Prior to coming to Clark, he worked as a GIS analyst for the New York State Department of Health’s Center for Environmental Health, and for the NYSDOH Bureau for HIV/AIDS Epidemiology. Dahlberg recently won a Geller Grant from Clark University to travel to Uganda and perform GIS research on sustainable microgrid development in 2013.

Dolan comes to Clark from Fairfield University where she has held the position of Vice President for Finance and Treasurer since 2010. Prior to Fairfield, she was Associate Vice President for Fiscal Affairs at Dartmouth College, and held positions at Vanderbilt University and Harvard University. Dolan completed her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University and holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dolan will begin work at Clark on August 19, providing oversight of the University’s financial affairs, strategic leadership over facilities and capital projects, human resources, and legal affairs.

Dolan will take the post held previously by James E. Collins, who is retiring after providing exemplary leadership and stewardship of the resources of the University for 33 years. Collins will continue to oversee Clark’s investment portfolio on a part-time basis through the 2013-14 fiscal year.

“We are very pleased to be welcoming an experienced and successful financial leader to Clark. Julie Dolan brings a wealth of relevant experience at excellent higher education institutions, which will be most valuable to Clark in the years ahead,” President Angel said.

“I am very excited about joining President Angel’s leadership team,” Dolan said.  “Clark is a dynamic institution on the move and I look forward to helping the University achieve its ambitious and important agenda.”

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a small, liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice) is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to contemporary challenges in the areas of psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world. www.clarku.edu

Adriane van Gils-Pierce (second from left) accepts the Outstanding Service and Support award on behalf of Clark University's Study Abroad and Away Office. Also pictured are, from left: David Fougere, CIEE Chief Operating Officer; Amy Dwyer, CIEE Director of Institutional Relations; and Constance Whitehead Hanks, Assistant Director of Clark’s Study Abroad and Away Programs.

The Clark University Office of Study Abroad and Away Programs was honored at the CIEE (Council on International Educational Exchange) annual Academic Consortium breakfast during the 65^th NAFSA Annual Conference & Expo in St. Louis, Missouri, May 26-31. The conference theme was “Ideals and Impact in International Education.”

Adriane van Gils-Pierce, director of the Study Abroad and Away Programs, accepted the Outstanding Service and Support award on behalf of Clark University. Her office also will receive a $1,000 scholarship to be awarded to a Clark student studying abroad on a CIEE program during 2013-14.

There are more than 50 Clark-affiliated semester and year-long study abroad programs around the globe. They offer opportunities to increase language proficiency as well as active learning programs with internships, research, or service components.

Clark is one of 300 institutional partners in the CIEE consortium, which provides meaningful and enriching educational experiences across the globe. Two other U.S. schools received honors as well: Northeastern and Penn State.

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a small, liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice) is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to contemporary challenges in the areas of psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world. www.clarku.edu

Jeffrey Lurie '73 speaks at the Reunion Weekend Friday Night Dinner.

The day after he’d bought the Philadelphia Eagles football franchise in 1994, Jeffrey Lurie ’73 sat at his desk in a windowless office in a dilapidated building and wondered if he’d made the biggest mistake of his life. The rat he watched skitter across the carpet amplified those concerns.

His state of mind wasn’t helped by a front-page Wall Street Journal story that appeared the next morning, taking Lurie to task for making an “emotional” purchase that would never see a good return on investment.

But his instincts and analysis told him differently. While the National Football League was not quite the juggernaut it is today, Lurie saw the potential for it to become “an incredible hit-maker.”

“The rest is history,” Lurie told his fellow Clarkies at the May 17 Clark University Reunion Weekend Dinner, noting that the NFL not only dominates the television landscape but dwarfs all other sports in the United States in popularity.

“If you reach for things and people tell you that’s not the way to go, trust your own analysis, have confidence, and empower yourself,” he said. “I learned some of that at Clark.”

Lurie, in his keynote address in Tilton Hall, recalled that he came to Clark after attending a “rigid all-boys high school in Cambridge.” He discovered the University valued “independent thinking, critical thinking, emotional intelligence. All the things we now know drive success.”

He described how Clark empowers its students to be bold and pursue passions that may defy the norm. When he attended the University in the late 1960s and early 1970s, students were finding their way in a social and political milieu that included the Vietnam War, the rise of feminism and academic innovation. “There was a lot going on in America. You were encouraged to be a participant and not an observer. That mode of being a participant energized me throughout my career.”

Lurie identified his passions as sports and movies, and he has found success in both.

The Eagles are one of the premier NFL franchises, blessed with a rabidly loyal fan base (as memorably illustrated in films like “Invincible” and “Silver Linings Playbook”). But it wasn’t always so: Lurie turned a downtrodden franchise into a powerhouse team.

“It harkens back to one of the lessons I learned at Clark, which is that people matter,” he said. “We built a team around high-character people willing to make hard choices because they were the right choices.” Lurie noted that the Eagles staff worked to transform the culture into one that emphasizes not only victories on the field, but community stewardship off it. The franchise plays in an environmentally friendly stadium that Lurie describes as the “greenest” in professional sports, and places high value on its philanthropic work, particularly in some of Philadelphia’s roughest neighborhoods. He pointed out that the Eagles’ training facility features the Hall of Heroes, which is adorned with portraits — not of football players, but of great scientists, humanitarians and activists whose accomplishments shook the world, like Jonas Salk, Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks.

About five years ago Lurie, who has produced feature films, launched a documentary company, Screen Pass Pictures. Two films on which he served as executive producer, “Inside Job” (2010) and “Inocente” (2012), have earned Academy Awards. Lurie told the Clark audience that the films are a way to address the contemporary issues — “Inside Job” deals with the United States’ economic meltdown and “Inocente” with the plight of a young undocumented immigrant — while a variety of distribution vehicles are employed to get the documentaries seen.

“You can now create real visions through documentaries,” he said. “At Clark in the late ’60s and early ’70s we learned we can confront issues head on. There’s still an opportunity to do that.”

Following his talk, Lurie fielded questions from the audience, several of them posed by fellow alumni from the Class of 1973. One questioner noted the irony that Lurie, the owner of an NFL team, graduated from a university that has no football. Lurie said that while he was an avid fan during his college years, he never wanted to attend a college “that elevated football to something important.”

“To me, college is a time to explore oneself, to learn how to deal with people. It’s not a time to join in a feverish obsession with something like football. Even in sports the best teammates are the ones who are emotionally intelligent. You can have 4.4 speed in the 40, and you can have the strength to lift 400 pounds. But if you can’t maximize your teammates’ level of ability, you’re going to have very little value to the franchise.”

Asked about his influences at Clark, Lurie was quick to note that the University’s environment, in which each class invited student opinion and interaction, was a boon.

“At Clark, it wasn’t just a professor determining what the paradigms of the moment were,” he said. “I didn’t want to hear the paradigms as they existed; a lot of us wanted to hear the paradigms of what could be. That notion infused me with a lot of energy to go after things that others would say were conventionally unrealistic.”

In its rankings, Best Delegate noted, “Clark rebounded nicely this year compared to last year, and that was in spite of a significant upgrade in competitiveness to its travel schedule. The team continued to demonstrate its ability to compete with the best by finishing sixth among North American delegations at HNMUN behind only UPenn, UChicago, Yale, FIU, and West Point. Clark also received the Outstanding Small Delegation at SCSY and won awards at UPMUNC, ChoMUN, NCSC, and FCMUN. Samer Said [’13] and Elena Stocchiero [’13] led the Clark team.”

Srini Sitaraman, Clark’s Model U.N. adviser and associate professor of Political Science, said, “Clark University's Model U.N. Team continues to hold it spot among the top-20 elite schools. This is a true testament to the amazing group of students we have in our team. Clark Model UN students are highly motivated, deeply interested in international politics, and care a lot about social issues with global relevance. Our team has also shown enormous resolve and focus despite encountering tough competition in all the major conferences. My hope is that they will continue to shine and keep the flag flying.”

Click here to learn more about the Clark team’s outstanding appearance at the Harvard National Model UN Conference (HNMUN) earlier this year.

The 2,200-square-foot space will have new life this fall, when National Grid opens the Sustainability Hub, which will offer innovative energy solutions through hands-on demonstrations of “smart” meters, interactive displays on smart grid technologies and tips for how consumers can manage and reduce energy use. Clark University is donating the space.

National Grid President Marcy Reed, Clark University President David Angel, Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs Richard K. Sullivan Jr. and city officials came together at a May 16 press conference to announce the Hub’s arrival in the neighborhood. Read more.

Clark University will host the annual international conference of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), The Future of Consumerism and Well-Being in a World of Ecological Constraints,  from June 12 to 14. The conference will include presentations by scholars working in the field of sustainable consumption, policy briefings by national and international experts, keynote lectures, and plenary dialogues.

In the wealthy countries of the global North there is growing recognition that technology alone—in the form of efficiency gains, new products, and energy sources—will not bring about necessary drastic reductions in resource utilization and ecological impacts. In addition to technological changes, fundamental shifts will have to take place in how people satisfy their needs and wants through material and energy consumption, conference organizers acknowledge.

The SCORAI conference at Clark aims to improve understanding of the driving forces behind consumerist lifestyles in the wealthiest parts of the world; to generate insights about moving toward individual and societal well-being in a society aware of ecological limits; and to build on recent developments to establish a vibrant, global research community focused on sustainable consumption.

Conference organizers are Clark University Professor of Environmental Science and Policy Halina Brown,  and Clark Senior Research Scientist Philip Vergragt, with Professor Maurie Cohen of New Jersey Institute of Technology, John Stutz, vice president of Tellus Institute of Boston, and Jeffrey Barber, president of Integrated Strategies Forum in Washington, D.C.  Brown, Vergragt and Cohen also are co-editors of “Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices” (Edward Elgar Publishing, April 2013). Clark President David Angel will also address the conference attendees.

“Beyond a certain level of national wealth, economic growth in itself does not improve life or sustain the Earth,” says Professor Brown. “We are working to figure out how to grow and in what areas—not to continue feeding a frenzied consumer society, but facilitate a transition to   sustainable, equitable prosperity and societal well-being.”

More information about the conference and a schedule of its events can be found here.

Keynote speakers include:

• John Fullerton, former Managing Director of JP Morgan and Founder of the Capital Institute, an online collaborative space for exploring the effect of economic transition to a more just, resilient, and sustainable way of living through the transformation of finance.
• Sheldon Garon, the Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton University and the author of “Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves” (Princeton University Press, 2012).
• Carol Graham, the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow in Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution and College Park Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and the author of “The Pursuit of Happiness: An Economy of Well-Being” (Brookings Institution Press, 2011) and “Happiness Around the World: The Paradox of Happy Peasants and Miserable Millionaires” (Oxford University Press, 2010).

The conference’s plenary speakers include Juliet Schor, professor of sociology at Boston College and the author of “Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth,” the national best-seller “The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure,” and “The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need”;  John de Graaf, the national coordinator of Take Back Your Time, an organization challenging time poverty and overwork in the United States and Canada,  and the co-author of the best-selling “Affluenza: the All-Consuming Epidemic, and What is the Economy for, Anyway”; and Bob Massie, President of the New Economics Institute based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a leader in the new economy movement, former head of Ceres and co-founder of the Global Reporting Initiative and the Investor Network on Climate Risk.

Approximately 120 participants are expected to attend the conference, hailing from the United States, Europe, Canada, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

In April, Clark University students, with support from the New Economics Foundation, organized and hosted a New Economics Summit titled “Connecting the Dots: Pathways to a New Economy.”  

Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University is a small, liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice) is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a robust liberal arts curriculum with life-changing world and workplace experiences. Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to contemporary challenges in the areas of psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the University’s motto: Challenge convention. Change our world. www.clarku.edu