Tag Archive for International Programs

A remarkable journey

Evans Kaame stands smiling in front of Clark's Chime Tower

This year’s recipient of the Community College President’s Award in Honor of Val Ogden is Evans Kaame, a student who has been through much and traveled far to pursue his educational dreams. About Evans Kaame Evans Kaame was born and raised in a small community in northwestern Kenya. After his father died, the family was thrown into hardship and…

Clark College hosts sand mandala construction

Tibetan monks making sand mandala

Tibetan monks will create spiritual artwork in college’s library Jan. 13-17      Clark College will host a group of four Tibetan Buddhist monks from South India from Monday, January 13, through Friday, January 17, as they construct a sand mandala in Cannell Library on the college’s main campus. All events are free and open…

Global dreams converge at Clark

Ruixuan Bai and Meghan Jackson

This year’s All-Washington Academic Team nominees show diversity of the Clark experience      One student plans to spend her career overseas; the other traveled across an ocean to study here. But on March 23, the stories of Meghan Jackson and Ruixuan Bai will converge when they represent Clark College at the 22nd annual All-Washington…

Indy earns awards

2017 Independent staff group photo

Online, print, and bilingual editions gain recognition at national conference          Clark College student journalists brought home first- and fourth-place honors from the annual Associated Collegiate Press’ midwinter conference, held March 2-5 in San Francisco. The Clark College Independent website outpaced 14 other two- and four-year colleges to win first place in…

International Education Week

International Education Week stock photo

Clark College is celebrating International Education Week, a program of the U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, with events on Thursday, November 17, and Friday, November 18. Highlights include: Thursday, November 17 11 a.m.  – 12 p.m., PUB 161: International Employers Panel. Discover what it takes to operate in a global economy from representatives…

Faculty Speaker Series presents Dave Kosloski

Study abroad in Florence with Prof. Kosloski

Professor describes making study abroad work for community college students      On February 11 at 4:00 p.m. in the Ellis Dunn Community Room (Gaiser Hall room 213), the Teaching and Learning Center hosts “Square Pegs in Round Holes: Making the Study Abroad Experience Meaningful for Community College Students,” the 2016 winter quarter installment of…

The Roots of Friendship Grow Stronger

Clark College hosts its 10th annual Sakura celebration        On an unseasonably warm April day, John Kageyama, president of America Kotobuki Electronics, stood on Clark College’s main campus below one of the 100 shirofugen cherry trees he had donated to the City of Vancouver 25 years earlier. After a quarter-century, those trees had…

Clark College Goes Global

international students

College celebrates International Education Week with its largest number of international students yet      On November 17, Clark College hosts its seventh celebration of International Education Week. But in many ways, Clark’s celebration began months earlier, with the launching of its new Intensive English Language Program (IELP) at the beginning of this fall quarter.…

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