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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Headwaters of leadership
Sam Robinson ’83 learned lessons at Clark that help him lead the Chinook Indian Nation today Clark does more than launch new careers. In Sam Robinson’s case, Clark helped prepare him for a different kind of purpose. 4-minute read Robinson ’83 was elected in June 2022 to his eighth term on tribal council as vice… Read More
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Leveling the welding field
Clark’s welding instructor Tatum Parsley ’13 aims to prove that welding is a trade for all people 4-minute read Sparks shot out from a flame that melted and fused two metals. Holding a welding torch and wearing a welding helmet and heat-resistant gloves, Tatum Parsley ’13 showed her students how it’s done. Parsley is a full-time… Read More
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Clearer path boosts confidence, completion
Clark College adjusts enrollment process with guided pathways 3-minute read Sarah Mendoza-Alvarado was a student at Evergreen High School in Vancouver, Wash., when she tried to apply for Clark College for Running Start, a tuition-free college credit program. It was 2020, early in the pandemic, and the college had moved its operations online. But instead… Read More
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Clark Partners magazine summer 2022
A new advocate for Clark College Calen D. B. Ouellette returned to the Pacific Northwest to become Clark College Foundation’s new chief executive officer and chief advancement officer, where he looks to include new faces and new voices in support of Clark. The idea about advocacy Student by student From supporting programs popular with students to… Read More
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A new advocate for Clark College
5 minute read Welcoming new voices, expanding messages to heighten awareness of Clark are priorities For Calen Ouellette, coming back to the Pacific Northwest is a return home to the comforts of nature and family, and a chance to build new partnerships. “One of the things I love about the Northwest is the hiking, kayaking… Read More
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Student by student: thinking outside the scholarship
6 minute read Facing a national decline in college enrollment, donors are finding creative ways to help students get back, and stay, in the classroom Across the nation, colleges faced an unprecedented enrollment and retention crisis even before the COVID-19 pandemic. In the 2008-2009 academic year, 471,145 students—the highest number ever recorded—were enrolled in Washington’s… Read More
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Keeping student debt in check
3 minute read Clark students borrow less than most community college students, thanks largely to scholarships A reasonable price tag is what led Maddie Hennerty ’22 to Clark College. Hennerty was 16 when she looked up the cost of attending state universities and felt discouraged. Her parents hadn’t attended college but encouraged her to go…. Read More
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Teachers + Clark = a better education
5 minute read Educators passionate about supporting Clark For 36 years, Ed Bedecarrax worked at City College of San Francisco, teaching anatomy and physiology and environmental sciences and then serving as a dean of instruction before retiring to Camas, Wash. with his husband, Hal Kauffman. About 48 hours after they moved into their new home,… Read More
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‘The guru of old growth’ has roots in Clark College
6 minute read World renowned forest ecologist Jerry Franklin launches his career at Clark College, learning from Dr. Anna Pechanec, the namesake of one of Clark’s science buildings Jerry Franklin ’55 grew up in Camas in the 1940s and 50s when it was a blue-collar mill town of fewer than 5,000 people, and the behemoth… Read More
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Precious memories of a family’s legacy
5 minute read Boschma family reflects on their past as Clark College breaks ground on future satellite campus As the ceremonial gold shovels cut into the warm June earth on a once active dairy farm in Ridgefield, Wash., a new chapter for the storied land began. The 70 acres, which had traditionally been cultivated by… Read More