<p>My daughter just completed her freshman year at Clark and is very happy there. Though raised is a very whitebread suburb, she found the Main South neighborhood to be intriguing rather than threatening. Her car got vandalized a bit on St. Patrick’s Day, but it turned out to be students, not locals. And she had it parked on the street at the time, instead of in the parking lot I had paid good money for. The campus police were most helpful in solving the case. The damage was fixed the next day.</p>
<p>Clark has done great things in the neighborhood. I highly recommend the bus tour of Main South they do that focuses on their involvement in the area. It is most inspiring. And the University Park School, where prospective Clark MAT students student-teach just a couple of blocks from campus, has received repeated national attention for the 100% acceptance rate of their graduates – all from the Main South neighborhood – into colleges around the country. I literally cried after hearing one of these graduates tell her story. She was then a Clark MAT student herself, teaching some of her own siblings at the UPS.</p>
<p>I went there myself in the mid-'70s and consider the campus and surrounding area to be significantly improved since then.</p>