On Friday, February 13, 2015 USAID sponsored a panel discussion on the topic: Land Tenure and Disasters. The event highlighted the important linkages that exist between land tenure and disaster planning and recovery. Among the key takeaways from the event were the importance of proactively addressing land tenure as a part of disaster risk reduction…
International Development Community and Environment
Reflections on International Development, Community, and Environment
Student Contributor Sean McCartney (Geographic Information Systems for Development and Environment ’15) There are more times than I can count that I have either been at the IDCE Department, at a party hosted by IDCE students, or walking between classes, and my interactions with fellow students have always left me feeling like the “lone citizen”…
International Development Community and Environment
Lessons in Solidarity: A Journey from Saint Louis to Worcester
Student Contributor Jim Lochhead (International Development and Social Change ’16) shares how his first semester at Clark University came with a sense of detachment between graduate school in Worcester and his home city of St. Louis during the fall out of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. It was particularly trying to leave my home city of…
Graduate School of Management
Course Profile: “Corporate Social Responsibility” – Providing Real Companies with Real Solutions
They are students seeking careers in finance and accounting, in the public and private realms, in large and small companies; but they share an understanding that corporate social responsibility is a business necessity. The Graduate School of Management’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) course, taught by GSOM’s Executive in Residence professor Will O’Brien, provides an overview…
Graduate School of Management, International Development Community and Environment
Clark innovators offer novel transportation solutions at Worcester incubator event
Several Clark University graduate students took part in a special Worcester Incubator for Innovation Launch event on Jan. 22, at Union Station in Worcester. As Fellows in the Art of Science Learning program, the presenting teams offered novel solutions for some of Worcester’s transportation challenges.
International Development Community and Environment
Clark Launches Year-Long Initiative on UN’s Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals
Clark University’s International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) program is embarking on a year-long initiative assessing the effectiveness of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) adopted by the United Nations in 2000. The initiative will include opportunities for engagement among the university, the community at large, and noted scholars focused on specific aspects of the MDGs.…