We love Clark. Clark has an excellent relationship with the community and does a lot of service: the school that Clark runs has won national awards. There are children from the community on campus during the summers. Clark has a seminar program for freshmen that sounded great, as I remember, and there are interesting majors. A student interested in communications would have a great time.
Clark is one of the Colleges that Change Lives. You might want to check out Loren Pope’s book by that name, the CTCL website and national fairs. Pope also wrote “Looking Beyond the Ivy League” which has a lot of info on many many schools.
Skidmore is definitely artsy and many love it, but I have never visited.