CLARK UNIVERSITY

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CLARK UNIVERSITY
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ESTABLISHED IN 1887

• Clark was the second university to be dedicated
  exclusively to graduate education
• Others included Johns Hopkins University
  (established in 1876) and University of Chicago
  (established in 1890)

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Clark A Pioneering Institution from the
Beginning

• G. Stanley Hall, founding president, also founded
  the American Psychological Association and the
  American Journal of Psychology
• Sigmund Freud visited Clark in 1909, his only
  visit to the US, and introduced Psychoanalysis to
  the US through his famous Clark Lectures

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Clark A Pioneering International Institution
from the Beginning

• The Journal of International Relations was
  started at Clark in 1910 by George Blakeslee, a
  US diplomat and an Asian historian
• Franz Boaz, the Father of American Anthropology
  began his teaching career at Clark University in
  1888

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Clark A Pioneering Research Institution from
the Beginning

• Robert Goddard, Father of the Space Age,
  launched the worlds first liquid-fuel rocket in
  1926 during his 34 year career as a Physics
  Professor at Clark
• In 1967 the first Geographic Information Software
  for the PC was developed at Clark as part of the
  Idrisi Project. Now more than 20,000 users in
  130 countries

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Clark Continues as a Pioneer in Providing Quality
Education

• US News and World Report identified Clark as
  fifth in the US of national colleges and
  universities with the largest proportion of
  international students
• They also reported in the same study that Clark
  University was ranked 24 in the US for being the
  best value for students ( as defined as highest
  quality education at affordable tuition )

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Clark Continues as a Pioneer in Providing Quality
Education

• USA Today in their national survey of US
  universities ranked Clark in the top 25 for
  highest quality education
• US News and World Report in August of 2003
  ranked Clark in the first tier of US national
  Universities. Clark ranked 73 out of top 248
  national universities (total study included over
  900 institutions)

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Clark Continues as a Pioneer in Providing Quality
Education

• According to the 2004 edition of the Princeton
  Review Clark ranks 18 out of 900 liberal arts
  colleges in students that continue to the PhD
  level and 8 in the US for student diversity.
• Jay Matthews, author of Getting Beyond the Ivy
  League to Go to College ranks Clark 3 out of 100
  schools in the US that are outstanding but under
  appreciated.

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Clark Continues as a Pioneer in Providing Quality
Education

• Clark is one of the forty colleges written about
  by Lauren Pope in her book, Colleges that Change
  Lives.
• The New Media Consortium ranks Clark as one of
  the top fifty universities in the world for
  innovative approaches to the use of technology.

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1953 Clark Moves to Bring Quality Education to
Adults

• In an effort to provide a quality college
  education to adults and part-time students the
  Clark Evening College was established
• In 1957 Clark University Evening College
  graduated its first class

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College Of Professional And Continuing Education
COPACE

• 1975 COPACE was established as a full
  degree-granting college of the university with
  undergraduate and graduate degree programs
• The mission of COPACE is to serve adult and
  part-time students with the same quality
  education that has made Clark University famous
• Same standards delivered in the evening to a
  different audience

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COPACE One College with Four Divisions

• 1. Undergraduate and Community Programs
• 2. American Language and Culture Institute
• 3. Graduate and International Programs
• 4. Training Programs EDF, EMC

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Undergraduate and Community Programs

• 18 Undergraduate majors leading to BA/BS degrees
• 100 Adult, Part-time student enrollment
• Serving culturally diverse population of central
  Massachusetts
• All courses approved by the dean of the university

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American Language and Culture Institute(ALCI)

• English-As-A-Second-Language Programs
• Michigan Test Administrator
• High-level of Predictability of Training Outcomes
• Graduate Students admitted to Clark from abroad
  with less than 530 TOEFL attend here

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Graduate and International Programs

• Master of Public Administration (MPA)
• Master of Science in Professional Communication
  (MSPC)
• Master of Science in Information Technology
• Locations
• Worcester, Boston Massachusetts
• Graduate Management Center in Framingham, MA
• Tel Aviv,Haifa and Jerusalem Israel
• Lodz and Warsaw Poland

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Master of Public Administration (MPA)

• Directed to public-sector management
• Two tracks government management and non-profit,
  non-government management
• Develop competency to strategically manage in a
  fiscally constricted environment
• Focus on both policy and management competencies
• Learn how to effectively manage people in a
  twenty-first century firm human resources,
  conflict management, budget management,
  information technology, strategic planning and
  application to a competitive market

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Master of Science in Professional Communication
(MSPC)

• Many study how to manage an organization--few
  study how to manage people effectively
• Focus on managerial communication excellence
• How to communication effectively with internal
  and external audiences
• Develop competency organizational communication,
  intercultural communication, effective
  presentations,both written and oral, fiscal
  responsibility, integrate information technology,
  manage conflict and leverage human capital, and
  marketing and advertising

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Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT)

• Focus of this degree the point at which
  technology and business intersect
• The challenge of the modern firm is to make
  intelligent decisions about technology--not just
  to have the latest invention
• How to manage engineers and information
  technology workers effectively
• How to manage networks, database systems,
  web-based technologies, operating systems, new
  technologies like wifi,
• In a rapidly changing market, how does one
  develop skill security rather than job-security

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COPACE Core Competencies

• 1. Adult education expertise
• 2. Intercultural communication expertise
• with diverse populations from within the US
• with diverse populations from outside the US
• in bilingual teaching environments

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Teaching Methods

• Lectures/Oral Presentations to provide new
  theoretical and research perspectives
• Concrete Experience grounded in real life of
  trainers and students through cases and real-life
  application
• Reflective Process no meaning outside of its
  application to the work life what do these ideas
  mean to me and my ability to do my job better?
• Proactive Process Must leave with an immediate
  plan of action or application to real life
  setting student should be immediately able to
  apply to their job

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Welcome to contact us

• Contact Max Hess
• Assistant Dean and
• Director of Graduate Programs
• Clark University
• COPACE
• 950 Main St.
• Worcester, MA 01610, USA
• email mhess_at_clarku.edu