{"id":2157,"date":"2014-02-03T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2157"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:06:08","slug":"clifford-d-clark-former-binghamton-university-president-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2014\/02\/03\/clifford-d-clark-former-binghamton-university-president-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Clifford D. Clark, former Binghamton University president, dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford D. Clark, 88, former president of Binghamton University, died Friday, Jan. 31, in Michigan. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in 1973 as a University professor, retiring in 1996. He was rehired shortly after and remained part-time on the faculty until 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Appointed as the fourth president of Binghamton University in 1975, Clark championed the growth of graduate programs in selected areas, especially the sciences and professional schools. Considered a founder of the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science, he also oversaw restructuring of several programs in the then-School of Education and Human Development and a major expansion of the Decker School of Nursing.<\/p>\n<p>Clark also established the Harpur, now Binghamton University, Forum to bridge community-campus relationships.<\/p>\n<p>A strong supporter of campus diversity, Clark worked for the statewide development of the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), and provided support for the Office of Services for Students with Disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.binghamton.edu\/inside\/index.php\/news-briefs\/show\/clifford-d.-clark-former-binghamton-university-president-dies\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clifford D. Clark, 88, former president of Binghamton University, died Friday, Jan. 31, in Michigan. He joined the faculty at Binghamton in 1973 as a University professor, retiring in 1996. He was rehired shortly after and remained part-time on the faculty until 2000. Appointed as the fourth president of Binghamton University in 1975, Clark championed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-faculty","7":"category-university-archives"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}