Dr. Roberto Anitori discusses rock-eating microbes in Antarctica at the Faculty Speaker Series From one-celled organisms to imaginary elephants, we have much to learn from the non-human life forms around us. That is the theme of this year’s season of Clark College’s Faculty Speaker Series, “Microbes, Pets, and Puppets: What Animals Can Teach…
Bright Talents, Dark Tales
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Clark College Columbia Writers Series hosts two rising stars this fall quarter Clark College will host award-winning authors Benjamin Percy and Wells Tower in two separate installments of the college’s renowned Columbia Writers Series. Percy will read from his work and discuss his writing process on October 21; Tower, on November 3. This…
Connect the Numbers on 9/30
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The community is invited to help Clark College celebrate the successful completion of the “Ensuring a Bright Future” fundraising campaign on September 30 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Andersen Fountain on the main campus of Clark College. The family-friendly celebration will include carnival-inspired games and food, as well as presentations by Clark students…
Exceptional Classfied Staff Awards
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Awards announced on Opening Day Opening Day is traditionally the occasion for announcing the yearly Exceptional Classified Staff Awards, which recognize two classified employees for their contributions to Clark College. Recipients receive a glass plaque and $1,000, funded through an anonymous donor’s contributions to the Clark College Foundation. For their “exemplary work performance,…
Presidential Coins
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Five outstanding members of the Clark College community receive recognition In 2007, Clark College President Bob Knight introduced a new honor at Clark College: the presidential coin. The coin is given to faculty and staff members who provide exemplary service to Clark students, the college and the community. The honorees are decided by…
Exceptional Faculty, Exceptional Stories
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Learn more about this year’s Exceptional Faculty Award winners A professor who never planned on going to college, A Web-savvy wiz who stays in touch with students on Twitter, an aspiring academic who turned his back on the ivory tower in favor of more hands-on teaching, and an experienced clinician who takes the…
Exceptional Faculty Award spotlight: The technophile with human feeling
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Chris Martin has gathered the students from his Web Video Production class in the hallway outside their classroom to demonstrate how to set up an interview shot. One student—a burly guy with a baseball cap and gray beard—has affably agreed to stand in front of the camera as the “interviewee.” “Now let’s think about camera…
Exceptional Faculty Award spotlight: The accidental professor
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We’ve all heard the cliché that kids say the darndest things. But people rarely point out its corollary: So do adults. As an Early Childhood Education professor, Sarah Theberge says she is often just as surprised by what her students express in the classroom as she is by what children in the college’s Child &…
Exceptional Faculty Award spotlight: The book-lover gone digital
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Exceptional Faculty Award recipient Jim Wilkins-Luton can tell you the exact moment when the course of his career changed. He was in his final year of graduate studies at Gonzaga University, listening to an English professor discuss Milton in pedantic detail. At the time, Wilkins-Luton was well on his way to following that professor’s path.…
Exceptional Faculty Award spotlight: The voice of experience
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Psychology professor Kelly Fielding has spent decades demystifying the human brain “I believe in psychology,” says psychology instructor Kelly Fielding. “I believe it has value and purpose, and if I can affect a few students who want to make a dent in all the psychological distress in this world, then that’s a…