How do you keep a broad, disparate, and diverse group of on-the-ground development professionals—governmental, non-governmental, and affiliated—informed about the major challenges they face on a daily basis? How do you create connections so they can learn from each other and leaders in the field, in order to build effective strategies to overcome those challenges? This…
IDCE hosted it’s fall semester potluck September 2. The event is part of the kickoff events for the start of the semester and is an opportunity for students to get to know one another as well as sample foods from their classmates native countries.
Clark’s International Development, Community, and Environment (IDCE) Department began the new year with an annual tradition — the IDCE Fall Retreat. This year’s retreat was held in North Scituate, RI, and gave new and returning students an opportunity to meet one another, reunite with classmates, and participate in activities intended to strengthen the bond of our unique community. Here’s…
The IDCE community organized a departmental ceremony to celebrate the graduation of the 2015 class and to recognize the journey they have accomplished together. Initiated by students and supported by faculty and staff, the celebration was held on Saturday, May 2, 2015, at Tilton Hall with Professor Halina Brown as keynote speaker, student speakers representing…
Dr. Ellen Foley, Associate Professor of International Development and Social Change, first went to Senegal in 1992 as an undergraduate. Since then, much of her work has focused on health concerns facing populations in West Africa, with a primary interest in reproductive and sexual health. Most recently she has teamed up with researchers from Senegal,…
For the students who enroll in the International Development and Social Change program (IDSC), offered by the International Development, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE), the phenomena of social change plays an important role throughout the development theory and practice that the curriculum is founded upon. However, many students and professors agree that there is lacking…
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…
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.…
The International Develoment, Community, and Environment Department (IDCE) is pleased to announce six new Signature Fellowships. IDCE Signatures encompass issues of pressing global and local concern and are areas where the department is investing significant energy in deepening its teaching, research, advocacy, practice, and activism. Students whose prior experiences and research interests exemplify these signature…
Lisa Anderberg from Clark University will be the first graduate student to conduct gender analysis directly with a biological scientist working in the Roots, Tubers, and Bananas (RTB) Research Program as part of a new partnership between RTB and various US universities.
