Clark University

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Clark University
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motto Fiat Lux
founding 1887
Sponsorship Private
place Worcester, Massachusetts
president David Angel
Students 3,300 (2014)
Website www.clarku.edu

The Clark University in Worcester , Massachusetts , USA is a private university, which in 1887 was founded by industrialist Jonas Clark. It is one of the founding New England universities of the Association of American Universities . However, the university left this association in 1999 to specialize in undergraduate education . It was known by the invitation of its founding president, the Experimental psychologist G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924), of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) in December 1908. Here met in 1909 on the occasion of the award of an honorary doctorate to Freud and Carl Gustav Jung and William Stern together .

Heinz Werner , like Stern and Ernst Cassirer, emigrated from Hamburg in 1933 and took over the Stanley Hall professorship in 1946.

A memorial commemorates Freud's visit in 1908/1909, and two commemorative rooms to the work of Stanley Hall and Heinz Werner.

history

Group photo taken in front of Clark University in 1909. Front: Sigmund Freud , Granville Stanley Hall , Carl Gustav Jung . Back: Abraham A. Brill , Ernest Jones , Sandor Ferenczi .

The first president of Clark University was Granville Stanley Hall , founder of the American Psychological Association . Out of this tradition, Clark University was and is particularly known for its psychological faculty. In 1909 Sigmund Freud gave his only series of lectures in the USA at the Clark, which is still regarded as the starting point for psychoanalytic research in the USA, and received from the Clark the only honorary doctorate awarded to him in his life . To this day, a statue in front of the main entrance reminds of Freud's visit. Franz Boas , founder of American cultural anthropology, was a professor at Clark University from 1888 to 1892. Albert Abraham Michelson , the first American to receive a Nobel Prize in physics, was a professor at Clark University from 1889 to 1892. In the 1920s, Robert Goddard , one of the founders of modern rocket technology and space travel, was the dean of the physics department. The Clark University library, designed by John M. Johansen, was named after him.

When President Wallace W. Atwood took office in 1920, the Clark Graduate School of Geography was established, the first of its kind in the United States. Economic Geography has been published at the university since 1925 .

Presidents of Clark University and Clark College

(Clark University and Clark College merged in 1920)

  • G. Stanley Hall, 1888-1920 (University)
  • Carroll D. Wright, 1902-1909 (College)
  • Edmund C. Sanford, 1909-1920 (College)
  • Wallace W. Atwood, 1920-1946
  • Howard B. Jefferson, 1946-1967
  • Frederick H. Jackson, 1967-1970
  • Glenn W. Ferguson, 1970-1973
  • Mortimer H. Appley, 1974-1984
  • Richard P. Traina, 1984-2000
  • John E. Bassett, 2000-2010
  • David P. Angel, 2010-to date

Research Centers at Clark

There are eight research centers at Clark University.

  • The William and Jane Mosakowski Institute deals with the optimization of political processes. The center mainly focuses on education, the environment, health care and globalization.
  • The George Perkins Marsh Institute focuses its research on the interdisciplinary consideration of the human-environment problem.
  • The Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is an interdisciplinary center made up of professors from the fields of history, psychology, sociology and literature. It deals with the causes of the Holocaust as well as genocides.
  • The Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education deals with possible transformations of the American education system.
  • The Center for Risk and Security (CRS) at the George Perkins Marsh Institute deals with national security issues.
  • The Center for Technology, Environment and Development (CENTED) researches environmental disasters and their consequences.
  • The Center for Community-Based Development (CCBD) focuses on development aid .
  • Clark Labs for Cartographic Technologies and Geographic Analysis develops computer software that helps record and understand environmental changes.

literature

  • William A. Koelsch: Incredible Day-Dream: Freud and Jung at Clark. 1909

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Author: W. Carson Ryan Publication: New York: The Carnegie Foundation, 1939. Clark University, 1887-1987: A Narrative History, Author: William A. Koelsch Publication: Worcester: Clark University Press, 1987.
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  3. ↑ George B. Cressey: Wallace W. Atwood, 1872-1949 . In: Annals of the Association of American Geographers . tape 39 , no. 4 , 1949, pp. 296-306 , doi : 10.1080 / 00045604909352015 .
  4. ↑ on this and the sequence of presidents since the foundation, see Presidents
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Coordinates: 42 ° 15 '3.5 "  N , 71 ° 49' 23.4"  W.