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…
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Clark prof. receives grant to provide Marriage Checkups to military
James V. Córdova, associate professor of psychology and director of Clinical Training and The Marriage Checkup Project at Clark University, has been awarded a $56,156 grant from the Department of Defense’s Defense Health Program to support his project, “Disseminating the marriage checkup in Air Force primary care settings.” Professor Córdova will work with Lt. Col.…
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Clark University scholar-educator’s new book guides teachers in collaborative learning
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…
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Clark University researcher asks: Is this the last acceptable prejudice?
COMMENTARY As this year’s college graduates go forth into the world, they are entering a society that is in some ways decidedly unfriendly to them. TIME magazine’s recent cover slurring them as “The Me Me Me Generation” is only the latest insult thrown at them by their elders. In the twenty years I have been…
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Clark University included on Princeton Review’s ranking of Great Schools for Psychology Majors
Clark University is one of three New England schools to offer at least one of the country’s hottest majors for undergraduates, according to The Princeton Review’s The Best 377 Colleges, 2013 edition. The college guide’s “Great Schools for 20 of the Most Popular Undergraduate Majors” list praises Clark for its psychology program. Clark is on…
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Clark University Poll of Parents of Emerging Adults findings released
Emerging adults getting by with a lot of help from their folks; wide majority of parents providing the financial support they didn’t get in their twenties A vast majority of parents of today’s emerging adults (74%) say they provide financial support to their 18- to 29-year-old children, even as they report getting little or no…
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Conference at Clark expands global scholarship on consumerism
Scholars from around the world gathered at Clark University (June 12-14) for the international conference of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI), The Future of Consumerism and Well-Being in a World of Ecological Constraints. The conference, which drew 117 participants, included presentations by scholars working in the field of sustainable consumption, policy briefings…
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Clark students research habitats of African elephants and Guanaco
Clark undergraduates Michelle Andrews ’14 and Christina Geller ’13 and a group of graduate students enrolled in the Wildlife Conservation GIS Research Seminar taught by Associate Professor of Geography John Rogan and Research Assistant Professor Florencia Sangermano, recently traveled to the Bronx Zoo, the headquarters of the Wildlife Conservation Society, to present policy recommendations to…
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Clark holds 109th Commencement
Clark University held its 109th Commencement on Sunday, May 19. Degrees were granted to 1,096 graduates: 523 baccalaureate, 541 masters, and 32 doctoral. Carolyn Mugar, executive director of Farm Aid, and founder of the Armenia Tree Project, delivered the Commencement address and imparted lessons from the early days of both organizations. Mugar was married to…
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Clark professor studies glacier contributions to sea level rise
Ninety-nine percent of all of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the massive Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. However, according to a new study led by Alex Gardner, assistant professor in the Clark University Graduate School of Geography, “the world’s other land ice stored in glaciers—humble repositories of the remaining 1 percent of land…
