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Lewis & Clark is a private institution with a public conscience, a residential campus with global reach. Students and faculty throughout all three of Lewis & Clark’s schools—the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the Law School—pursue new ways of knowing by combining classic liberal learning with pioneering collaboration. Our students represent the next generation of global thinkers and leaders, unafraid to discard conventional thinking, civic complacency, and outmoded preconceptions. Yet they value what Lewis & Clark offers: an education built from the time-tested elements of careful study, original research, and spirited debate. So what makes the experience of our students unique? How about the inspiring beauty of our natural setting, on 137 wooded acres in Portland’s southwest hills. Or our rich history and our diverse, multicultural present. Or our commitment to interdisciplinary academic learning, as well as community engagement here in Portland and around the world. Add to this our well-stocked libraries, award-winning green buildings, outstanding athletic facilities, our implementation of technology and the innovative research it allows, and above all, our committed and engaged students, teachers, mentors, staff, alumni, donors, and friends. It all adds up to Lewis & Clark, a place where agile minds come to learn, to explore, and to work together. At Lewis & Clark, we believe that people learn best and flourish the most when encountering perspectives, people, backgrounds, and experiences other than their own. The mission of Lewis & Clark is to know the traditions of the liberal arts, to test their boundaries through ongoing exploration, and to hand on to successive generations the tools and discoveries of this quest. By these means, the institution pursues all liberal learning aims: to seek knowledge for its own sake and to prepare for civic leadership. Lewis & Clark carries out this mission through undergraduate programs in the arts and sciences and postgraduate programs in the closely related professions of education, counseling, and law. Lewis & Clark mounts these programs as both separately valid and mutually supportive enterprises. In all its endeavors, it seeks to be a community of scholars who are alive to the inquiry, open to diversity, and disciplined to work in an interdependent world. Lewis & Clark is a private college with a public conscience and global reach. Here you will work with some of the world’s most fascinating people and learn more about yourself in the process. But do not just take our word for it: See what student bloggers have to say. Check out our challenging academic programs. Schedule a visit. Explore for yourself what we have to offer. Here is nothing like the feel of a college campus and few environments compare to ours! See what makes the L&C community special. Oregon Private College Week is a great time to visit this summer. Our students prize their relationships with nationally recognized professors, graduate-level research opportunities, and life-changing overseas programs. With abundant options and personal support, our students pursue their academic interests in Portland and worldwide. Lewis & Clark offers 29 majors and 27 minors and ideal preparation for careers in engineering, law, medicine, business, entrepreneurship, and teaching, among other professions. We also offer 30 overseas and off-campus programs, which have been recognized in U.S. News and World Report as among the best in the nation. The foundation for a Lewis & Clark education is Exploration and Discovery, our unique first-year core course. Through this two-semester experience, our students establish a common foundation in the world’s enduring questions and modern methods of analysis and discovery. Lewis & Clark’s journey from pioneer vision to higher education's premier institution began in 1867, 60 miles south of present-day Portland. In that year, the Presbytery of Oregon secured a charter from the state legislature. The church partnered with Albany's town to fund and build a two-story building on the town’s College Square site, and a school was born. In 1966, almost 100 years after Albany Collegiate Institute was chartered, Lewis & Clark and the Synod of Oregon agreed to sever their formal bonds. While affirming its historical ties to the Presbyterian Church, Lewis & Clark became an independent institution with a self-perpetuating board of trustees. Today, as global thinkers and leaders, Lewis & Clark students, faculty, alumni, and staff thrive as they explore new ways of knowing, develop innovative collaborations, and strengthen civic leadership. In doing this, they embrace and promote the shared objectives that draw the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education and Counseling, and the School of Law to a joint endeavor, and that form Lewis & Clark’s official motto: Explorer, Discere, Sociare (to explore, to learn, to work together). Lewis & Clark College honors the liberal arts tradition as a learning community committed to diversity and inclusion. The Office of the Dean of Diversity and Inclusion educates, advocates, promotes, and engages the Lewis & Clark community in diversity, equity, and inclusion to foster and support a multicultural, multi-religious, multi-identity college community where all feel challenged to venture from their comfort zone, feeling supported and a part of the college community, as they grow and learn. View full university

Clark Atlanta University is a comprehensive, private, urban, coeducational institution of higher education with predominantly African-American heritage. It offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees and certificate programs to students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The University was established in 1988 through the consolidation of its two parent institutions, Atlanta University (1865), the nation's first institution to award graduate degrees to African Americans, and Clark College (1869), the nation's first four-year liberal arts college to serve a primarily African-American student population. The first President of Clark Atlanta University was Dr. Thomas W. Cole, Jr., who served concurrently as the President of both Atlanta University and Clark College before the 1988 consolidation. In November 1987, after more than a year of discussion, the Boards of Trustees of Atlanta University and Clark College authorized an exploration of the potential advantages of closer working arrangements between the two institutions, including their consolidation into one University. In April 1988, the joint committee delivered its report entitled Charting A Bold New Future: Proposed Combination of Clark College and Atlanta University to the Boards for ratification. The report recommended that the two schools be consolidated into a single institution. On June 24, 1988, the Boards of both Clark College and Atlanta University made the historic decision to consolidate the two institutions, creating Clark Atlanta University. The new and historic University inherits the rich traditions of two independent institutions connected over the years by a common heritage and commitment by personal, corporate, and consortia relationships and by location. Clark Atlanta University will accomplish its mission and achieve its vision by adhering to a practical, university-wide strategic plan developed to facilitate institutional growth, expand institutional capacity, and optimize fiscal, organizational, and human resources. The A.U.C. Woodruff Library is also home to the Archives Research Center, which is noted for its extensive and unique holdings of materials on the African American experience, including the John Henrik Clarke Africana and African American Collection, the Henry P. Slaughter and Countee Cullen Memorial Collection, and the Tupac Amaru Shakur Collection. Also, at the request of Morehouse College, the library serves as custodian of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection. At Clark Atlanta University, we offer an ideal learning environment that produces recognized leaders empowered to change their communities, the nation, and the world. It is time for you to become part of the tradition that spans nearly three centuries to begin creating solutions for the next century. Clark Atlanta University offers 38 different graduate and non-degree certificate programs through our four schools: Arts & Sciences, Business Administration, Education, and Social Work. These schools are focused on leadership development, professional ethics, and the highest caliber of instruction and research excellence. Be empowered and prepared with a graduate degree from C.A.U. for today's global economy. The mission of the Division of Research and Sponsored Programs (R.S.P.) is to provide leadership in the establishment of partnerships between the faculty, the institution, and its constituents, the facilitation of technology transfer and commercialization, and the development and implementation of the operational processes and policies of the research enterprise at C.A.U. Including the delivery of pre- and post-award services. This mission is realized by delivering value-added, "one-stop" support and management throughout the research and sponsored programs process through the collaboration of research administration, C.A.U. Research enterprise and technology transfer and commercialization efforts. At Clark Atlanta University, we believe that research and education cannot be decoupled. Research and scholarly activity at C.A.U. are essential in providing a world-class educational experience for our students. The Division of Research and Sponsored Programs seeks to leverage the diverse skills and expertise of our students, faculty, researchers, and staff to foster the growth of the research enterprise, provide exceptional research and educational experiences for our students, and make significant discoveries and contributions to the knowledge of humankind. Atlanta University, founded in 1865 by the American Missionary Association, with subsequent assistance from the Freedman's Bureau, was, before consolidation, the nation's oldest graduate institution serving a predominantly African-American student body. By the late 1870s, Atlanta University had begun granting bachelor's degrees and supplying black teachers and librarians to public schools across the South. In 1929-1930, the institution began offering graduate education exclusively in various liberal arts areas, and the social and natural sciences. It gradually added professional programs in social work, library science, and business administration. During this period, the institution was associated with Spelman and Morehouse colleges in a university plan known as the Atlanta University System. The campus was moved to its present site, and the modern organization of the Atlanta University Center emerged. The story of the Atlanta University Center over the next 20 years includes significant developments. The schools of library science, education, and business administration were established in 1941, 1944, and 1946. The Atlanta School of Social Work, long associated with the University, gave up its charter in 1947, to officially become part of the University. One of the founding faculty in the School of Social Work was W.E.B. Du Bois, who wrote his most influential works during the 23 years he spent at Atlanta University, from 1897-1910 on the faculty of the history and economics departments, and later, from 1934-1944 as chair of the sociology department. Clark College was founded in 1869 as Clark University by the Freedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which later would become the United Methodist Church. The University today celebrates its historical bond with the denomination. Clark University was named for Bishop Davis W. Clark, the first president of the Freedmen's Aid Society, and became bishop in 1864. The first Clark College class was housed in a sparsely furnished room in Clark Chapel, a Methodist Episcopal Church in Atlanta's Summer Hill section. In 1871, the school relocated to a newly purchased property at Whitehall and McDaniel streets. In 1877, the school was chartered as Clark University. View full university

Located in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark is a university on the cutting edge of higher education. A liberal arts-based research university with a distinguished academic and research pedigree, Clark is redefining higher education for the 21st century — forging robust partnerships that break down boundaries between academia and society and more deeply attuning students' learning experiences to the profound changes taking place in the world today. We're a national leader in cultivating an educational environment characterized by collaboration, creativity, intellectual daring, and the capacity and determination to bring about real, transformative global change. Capturing the essence of a place that transforms intellectual inquiry into real-world impact can be difficult, like defining an instinct or emotion. The words are there, but Clark University is changing the vocabulary. The rapidly shifting and increasingly interconnected world of the 21st century demands citizens who are innovative, resilient, and unafraid to tackle complex problems on a global scale — from climate change to the fracturing of civil institutions. Clark ensures that its graduates not only thrive in but contribute to this dynamic environment by building careers and lives of meaning while deploying their talents, skills, and compassion in a society that sorely needs them. To accomplish this, Clark University has forged a new model that is a powerful synthesis of research, community partnerships, and undergraduate and graduate education. We cultivate the kind of intellectual dissent and forward-thinking that erupts into bold ideas and spurs action that is both thoughtful and fearless. Clark is a university of consequence, where research excellence empowers action on critical human concerns, and where students pursue their passions with a singular purpose: to become a relentless force for positive change. A Clark education reflects our belief in the enduring value of liberal education and our efforts to more deeply attuning students' learning experiences to the profound changes underway in our economy, society, and democracy. Clark's legacy of taking the bold, unconventional approach is exemplified in LEEP (Liberal Education and Effective Practice), our undergraduate experience that combines a comprehensive liberal arts-based curriculum with experiential learning opportunities in highly integrated and life-changing ways. Through this unique model, we make the development of "capacities of effective practice," an explicit learning requirement for our undergraduates. Critical to success in today's world, these capacities include imagination, self-directedness, resilience, and managing diversity and uncertainty. Founded in 1887 as the first all-graduate school in the country, Clark offers a graduate education that is focused and comprehensive and trail-blazing. Our innovative model of engaged scholarship connects rigorous research methodologies and clear academic objectives with pressing societal needs, allowing students to work with scholars, practitioners, and citizens to effect positive change. Our graduate students master the skills to advance in their fields, think critically and creatively, challenge the status quo, and place their world globally. Clark's education begins in the classroom, but it does not stay there. We believe in showing students that they each have the power to effect positive change in the world — and that their connections to others can impel even more profound transformation. Clark forges powerful connections with universities, educators, researchers, and business and community leaders at home and abroad, providing students with countless opportunities to conduct in-depth research and work collaboratively to address global concerns. Our diverse community of educators, researchers, and scholars challenge and inspire each other with their unconventional perspectives, cutting-edge ideas, and determination. Clark University students benefit from close ties to alumni, who hire them as interns, provide mentorship and help enable their transitions from college to career, proving that the Clark experience is continuously unfolding. As a high-caliber research university, we have a responsibility to pursue fundamental truths and develop solutions to society's most pressing problems. Our faculty, students, and alumni conduct research that opens new avenues of thought, improves lives, and informs the way people view the world — and one another. We think broadly and deeply and act collaboratively. Clark University is known for intellectually daring research that engages the outside community and impacts people's lives and livelihoods throughout the world. To help ensure an environment where consequential research is fostered, Clark gives faculty and students the freedom and flexibility to pursue projects that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries, resulting in a much greater volume of high-quality research than at universities of comparable size. We are committed to action-based learning, providing students with excellent research opportunities, and reframing traditional research questions to regard problems from fresh angles and different prisms. The world demands that people of intelligence, compassion, and creativity come together to address its most pressing challenges. This is where Clark University steps up. We lay claim to what we call Passion With a Purpose: those shared places within the human experience that are hungry for transformation. Here, our faculty, students, and alumni tirelessly expand the frontiers of knowledge, defying conventional wisdom to devise inventive solutions to complex problems and then roll up their sleeves to get things done because it is the right thing to do. View full university