June 27, 2005
Clark University appears in "Colleges with a Conscience" Guidebook
WORCESTER, MA - A profile of Clark University is included in a new college guidebook, "COLLEGES WITH A CONSCIENCE: 81 Great Schools with Outstanding Community Involvement" (Random House/Princeton Review, $16.95) that became available in major bookstores and online booksellers last week.
Highlighting socially responsible colleges and universities, the book helps high school students incorporate service and involvement opportunities into their college selection process and profiles campuses that have made an institutional commitment to engagement in their communities.
Clark's profile on page 56 of the guidebook includes quotes from students about the institution's commitment to community service.
"I knew about how strong Clark was with volunteerism and activism the second I stepped on campus and even previously when I visited the school as a prospective," said one student. "There are always events and programs, followed by flyers and posters, that let us all know what's going on in the school, the community, the country, and even the world."
"Being in a large city like Worcester, there are a lot of people and programs out there that need help, and we're just a campus waiting to serve," said another student.
"A college with a conscience," says Robert Franek, Princeton Review VP-Publishing, "has both an administration committed to social responsibility and a student body actively engaged in serving society. Education at these schools isn't only about private gain: it's about the public good."
The Princeton Review and Campus Compact selected the schools in the book from a pool of over 900 institutions they considered for it. The book's editors also invited organizations with expertise in campus community service to nominate colleges for inclusion based on criteria covering three major areas: 1/ the college's admissions practices and scholarships rewarding community service, 2/ the level of social engagement of the school's student body, and 3/ the college's support for service-learning programs, student activism, and student voice in school governance. At 96 schools considered for the final cut for the book, The Princeton Review collected extensive data about their service programs and policies through surveys of their students and faculty/staff.
A list of the colleges profiled in the book is posted at www.princetonreview.com. They represent a diverse range of four-year institutions across the country.
Campus Compact is a coalition of more than 900 college and university presidents committed to the civic purposes of higher education. To support its civic mission, Campus Compact promotes community service that develops students' citizenship skills and values, encourages partnerships between campuses and communities, and assists faculty who seek to integrate public and community engagement into their teaching and research. For more information visit: Campus Compact at www.compact.org or Massachusetts Campus Compact at www.tufts.edu/as/macc.
Clark University is a private, co-educational liberal-arts research university with 2,000 undergraduate and 600 graduate students. Since its founding in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the United States, Clark has challenged convention with innovative programs such as the International Studies Stream, the Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the five-year BA/MA programs with the fifth year tuition free for eligible students.
Angela M. Bazydlo
Associate Director of Media Relations
Clark University
Worcester, Mass.
phone: 508-793-7635
email: abazydlo@clarku.edu
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