Clark university

Sporting affiliations Mascot Jonas Website .clarku .edu Clark University is a The university now offers 46 majors, minors, and concentrations in the The university competes intercollegiately in 17 Clark faculty, alumni, and affiliates have included business executives and inventors of the History [ ] Founding, Cornell University model, and early history [ ] On January 17, 1887, successful American businessman Clark, who was a friend of Jonas G. Clark died in 1900, leaving gifts to the university and campus library, but reserving half of his estate for the foundation of an undergraduate college. This had been strongly opposed by President Hall in years past, but Clark College opened in 1902, managed independently of Clark University. Clark College and Clark University had different presidents until Hall's retirement in 1920. Clark University began admitting women after Clark's death, and the first female PhD in psychology was awarded in 1908. Early PhD students in psychology were ethnically diverse, with several early graduates being Japanese. In 1920, Clark University, along with Stanford and Johns Hopkins, was one of the fourteen founding members of the Clark Lectures [ ] In order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Clark's opening, President Hall invited a number of leading thinkers to the university. Later history [ ] In the 1920s The Graduate School of Management (GSOM) was founded in 1982. In 1997, Clark announced the first PhD program in Holocaust Studies in the Uni...