Partners is Clark College Foundation’s biannual magazine that’s a celebration of Clark College, its events and programs, history, future, alumni, and the greater Vancouver community at large. Published in the spring and fall terms, Partners features in-depth articles on a variety of topics.
You can browse recent articles from Partners below or scroll to the bottom of the page for links to downloadable PDFs of full issues.
Recent Articles in Partners
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This is for the Students
Earlier this fall, I attended our annual scholarship reception, a standing-room only event that connects our donors with the students for whom they provide financial support. As I walked around the room greeting guests, I heard snippets of heartening conversations. Young and eager students spoke of their aspirations to be biomedical engineers studying cancer treatments,… Read More
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Para Mi Hijo y Para Mi Vida
Single mother with chronic illness remains upbeat, determined to finish her Clark degree by Rhonda Morin Story updated 7/10/19 She wakes with a pounding headache. She slept fitfully, awakened every few hours by strange dreams and a gnawing in her belly from a hunger she’s been unable to satisfy because whole food hasn’t gone down… Read More
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Exodus for Jobs and Opportunity Builds Multi-cultural Vancouver
by Van Forsyth Captains Lewis and Clark led a multi-national, multi-racial group across the continental divide and back. Outside Fort Vancouver was a cottage industry—people from Scotland, French Canada, Ireland, England, Hawaii and more than 30 different regional Native American tribes. It was World War II that formally brought this region into the modern, industrial… Read More
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How Does That Work?
Bruce Elgort is a tech geek and entrepreneur. Though his formal education is in electrical engineering, he morphed into a tech guy early in his career. He also likes to talk. Mix his experiences together and you get an information technology wiz and software creator who likes to teach. Elgort, 50, is used to training… Read More
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The Life of Bread
Doug Rountree ’72 makes baking a labor of love by Stephen Meuse Contributor to The Boston Globe Along the Vermont-New York line, the turn off Route 313 onto Murray Hollow Road is well-marked, but it isn’t long before we’re wondering whether we’re lost. As dusk approaches, the sun is dipping behind heavily wooded mountains and… Read More
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Going International
Like the city of Vancouver, Clark College has a history of welcoming people of various cultures, socio-economic status and ethnic diversity. Nationally, the number of international students enrolled at U.S. college campuses has increased 39.5 percent since 2000—to a record high of 764,495, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Clark College is poised… Read More
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Summer 2013 Edition
Our progress The life of bread Exodus for jobs and opportunity builds a multi-cultural Vancouver How does that work? Para mi hijo y para mi vida Going international Read More
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Our Progress
Well-educated and hard-working citizens give rise to a vigorous economy. Wondering how things work and committing oneself to finishing a degree no matter the obstacles, are characteristics of a Clark student. The following pages contain a handful of the hundreds of stories of exploration, determination, success and stumbles at Clark. Our community—with a past steeped… Read More
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Last Glance
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What’s it Like to be 50?
[quote style=”boxed”]”Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” ~ Marian Wright Edelman[/quote] In 2023, Clark College Foundation will turn 50. What does 50 years old look like? It’s a sound reputation for philanthropic excellence in our community. It’s having rock-solid partnerships with… Read More