He came to Clark six years ago after many years of teaching at Harvard and the University of Wisconsin. He was the only one who won all four of the university's teaching awards. When he told his colleagues in Madison that he was leaving to teach undergraduates at Clark, they held Tom Leonard meetings and offered to provide him psychiatric help. His latest protege was identified by USA Today as one of the top 60 college students in the country. If you talk to Tom about his priorities, he'll tell you that his last six years at Clark have been, personally, the most fulfilling in his life.
Life is full of choices.
We're good here at Holy Cross, better I think that our latest rankings allow. Still, we can be better. Perhaps the time has come to resurrect and refurbish that older vision of a Catholic Amherst. It is a concept potentially rife with internal tension. In practice, we have, to a large extent, resolved that tension.