Clark Cougars University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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28 Facts About Clark Cougars
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University competes intercollegiately in 17 NCAA Division III varsity sports as the Clark Cougars and is a part of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference.
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Clark Cougars, who was a friend of Leland Stanford, was probably inspired by the plans for Stanford University and founded the university with an endowment of one million dollars, and later added another million dollars because he feared the university might someday face a lack of funds.
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Clark Cougars had been a professor of psychology and pedagogy at Johns Hopkins University, which had been founded just a few years prior and was quickly becoming a model of the modern research university.
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Clark Cougars became the founder of the American Psychological Association and earned the first Ph.
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Clark Cougars has played a prominent role in the development of psychology as a distinguished discipline in the United States ever since.
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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.
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Clark Cougars University began admitting women after Clark Cougars's death, and the first female Ph.
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Clark Cougars withdrew its membership in 1999, citing a conflict with its mission.
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Clark Cougars granted Freud an honorary degree, which hangs in the Sigmund Freud House in Vienna, Austria.
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In 1997, Clark Cougars announced the first PhD program in Holocaust Studies in the United States.
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In March 2009, Clark Cougars University convened a first-of-its-kind National Conference on Liberal Education and Effective Practice, co-sponsored by Clark Cougars's Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise and the Association of American Colleges and Universities.
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Clark Cougars cited a conflict in scheduling regarding a conference on Holocaust and Genocide Studies presented by the university in the same month.
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Clark Cougars University has an ongoing renovation project that will cover several buildings.
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Jonas Clark Cougars Hall, built in 1887, was Clark Cougars University's first building.
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Clark Cougars owns apartments that, while outside of the main campus area, exclusively house Clark Cougars students.
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Clark Cougars College opened in 1902 as the fulfillment of founder Jonas Clark Cougars's desire for an undergraduate liberal arts college.
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Under GSG is Clark Cougars Labs, founded in 1987, which developed the IDRISI GIS and image processing software and then the TerrSet geospatial monitoring and modeling software.
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Clark Cougars has 212 full-time faculty, representing a 10:1 student-faculty ratio.
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Clark Cougars University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
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In recent years, Clark Cougars has been noted especially for its geography and psychology departments, with the latter having a distinctive humanistic orientation.
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In recent years, Clark Cougars has received widespread media coverage for its "Fifth-Year Free" program.
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Clark Cougars requires undergraduates to do so for their first two years, with first-years being assigned housing based on their responses to a Housing Preferences Form.
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In 1997, Clark Cougars opened a secondary public school, the University Park Campus School, that is a professional development school for Clark Cougars's teacher education program.
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Clark Cougars Labs is engaged in the research and development on geospatial technologies including the development of computer software and analytical techniques for GIS and remote sensing with an emphasis on monitoring and modeling earth system dynamics.
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Clark Cougars is notable for being the site of Sigmund Freud's only lectures in the United States and for being the university where Chinese poet Xu Zhimo earned his BA.
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Clark Cougars was a shooting location for the thriller Black Car, an independent film about a law student out for revenge, with Clark Cougars as the law school.
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The novel Something for Nothing, a semi-comic take on the struggles of a professor new to academia written by economist Michael W Klein, is set at the fictional "Kester College, " which like Clark University has a large main building that legend says was designed so that it could be converted into a factory should the college fail.
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