For Clark University

Ways to Engage

We will update this list of opportunities regularly, over time. We also will provide recaps and other follow-ups to keep conversations going.

Current

Provide Input on Nine Emerging Themes

We are shaping our strategy around nine emerging themes that have been driven by vigorous community input and which are reflected within the framework’s priority areas for new programs, investments, and partnerships. The four identified academic themes leverage our existing strengths while also citing additional areas of focus around which Clark can build robust thought leadership and inspire innovation and meaningful change. Undergirding these key academic areas are five foundational themes that will help us continue to establish priorities and craft the strategies needed to support them.

To explore these organizing principles in detail, comment on them, and suggest the initiatives and goals you believe will bring them to life, visit our new engagement platform to submit comments and questions.

Caucusing

As part of the campuswide visioning process, we are incorporating a new tool for engagement: caucusing. We invite members of the community to engage their peers in generating more focused ideas to advance through the strategic framework vetting process.

We invite you to explore these key documents to get started:

As always, we encourage you to submit your ideas for potential new programs, investments, or partnerships that target Clark’s five strategic areas of focus. Your ideas will be forwarded to the Steering Committee for consideration.

Completed

Sept. 29, 2021

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Update for Faculty

Clark faculty heard an update on the development of our new strategic framework. David Chearo, vice president for planning and strategic initiatives, shared an overview of the process and opportunities for engagement, and President David Fithian and Provost Sebastián Royo discussed the themes that are emerging from community input.

Sept. 27, 2021

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Update for Staff

Clark staff heard an update on the development of our new strategic framework. David Chearo, vice president for planning and strategic initiatives, shared an overview of the process and opportunities for engagement, and President David Fithian and Provost Sebastián Royo discussed the themes that are emerging from community input.

Sept. 21, 2021

Share Your Thoughts on the Campus of the Future

Representatives from the Campus Design Initiative (CDI) planning team held an informal open house to share information about the initiative — which is focused on the future of our physical campus — and to hear community members’ thoughts about the Clark campus of the future.

April 15, 2021

Student Meet and Greet

We asked students to reflect on what they envision for Clark’s future, posing these questions: What do you wish happened at Clark? What do you wish existed at Clark? What does a diverse, inclusive, equitable Clark look, taste, smell, feel like? What should never change about Clark?

Below is a snapshot of the themes and ideas that emerged.