Penguin Chats Podcast

Download the magazine Clark’s Crystal Ball Clark is drafting a strategic plan to guide the college in the face of economic and demographic uncertainty. Story coming April 26. Campus treasures Clark’s campus has been the backdrop of college memories for 90 years and counting. Revisit some of Clark’s most beloved campus treasures. Read the story. Live from New York, it’s Riley Donahue…

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28-minute listen Download transcript Clark College alumnus Riley Donahue has made it to the big time. He’s senior designer on the digital team for “Saturday Night Live” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.” In his spare time, he produces, designs and writes short films, like “Crossbone Skully: Evil World Machine,” featuring Johnny Depp, Alice Cooper, Nikki Sixx and Joe Perry with music by…

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25-minute listen Download the transcript What does Ryan Seacrest, Eddie Bauer vests and chocolate have to do with Clark College? Two leaders— President Karin Edwards and CEO Calen Ouellette—share funny moments and serious college priorities marking a path forward for the community college. The two come together in this Penguin Chats podcast to share the college’s newest strategic…

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25-minute listen Download the transcript Sam Robinson’s ’83 paternal great-great- great-grandfather was Thomas Huckswelt, chief of the Willapa, who signed a treaty with the commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1851. In that treaty, the tribes sold land to the U.S. for 3 cents per acre. In turn, a reservation was created for the tribes. But the treaty was never ratified by Congress because…

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Download the transcript 10-minute listen Clark College Foundation’s new CEO, Calen Ouellette has a vision to expand support for Clark by connecting with people who haven’t historically been involved in philanthropy. Donating money is just one way to support the college. Anyone can advocate, donate time or otherwise get involved. For financial donors, Ouellette wants to find new ways to…

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Download the transcript 30-minute listen Part III of the Legacy of an Auspicious CEO, takes Lisa Gibert to her first-ever fundraising campaign just as the Dow Jones plummeted and led to the Great Recession. Later, a second campaign ran head-on into a global pandemic. During all this, Lisa struggled with a personal tragedy and health issues that required months to recover. This is Part III of a…

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Download the transcript Creating multi-lingual learners is not a new thing, but it has evolved and is showing up more and more in classrooms across this country. As the nation’s population becomes more diverse, so do our classrooms and what is being taught and learned. A student reads a textbook at Gaiser Middle School. Photo by Paul Quackenbush Locally in Vancouver, Wash.

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Download the transcript In this edition of Penguin Chats, Denis Hayes, a Clark alumnus and CEO of the conservation group, the Bullitt Foundation, talks about solutions to combustible plastics, pledges from big business to be net-carbon neutral, the dawn of the energy revolution and his thoughts on building healthy human ecosystems. Hayes was the inspirational organizer of the first Earth…

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Former U.S. Rep. and Clark College Outstanding alumnus Don Bonker talks about serendipitous episodes he’s had with some of the nation’s most powerful people when he served in the U.S. House of Representatives in the 70s and 80s. He chronicles his fascinating career in a new memoir, “A Higher Calling.” The book doesn’t just catalog his career as a politician; instead, Bonker ’62 weaves in stories about some of the most powerful people at that time—from  former Presidents Jimmy Carter and George H. W. Bush to former House Speaker Tom Foley and U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos. These interactions changed the course of the causes he fought for during his political career.

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“A Higher Calling: Faith and Politics in the Public Square“

America’s Trade Crisis: The Making of the U.S. Trade Deficit

Tracking COVID-19 with Alexis Madrigal ’00 features a Clark College alumnus who is leading a data source that’s powering the nation’s information. During a June 3 webinar, presented by Clark College Foundation Alumni Relations, The Atlantic journalist talked about the importance and challenges of gathering accurate data from states on the number of cases, testing results and hospitalizations of COVID-19.