Russell Inslee "Ink" Clark, Jr. (died 1999) was an educator, administrator, and a key player in the transition of the Ivy League into co-education in the 1960s.
Clark was born in 1935 and graduated from Garden City High School on Long Island, New York. Clark graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1957. During his time at Yale he was a member of Skull and Bones, and head of the undergraduate student governing council. Clark ear...
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Russell Inslee "Ink" Clark, Jr. (died 1999) was an educator, administrator, and a key player in the transition of the Ivy League into co-education in the 1960s.
Clark was born in 1935 and graduated from Garden City High School on Long Island, New York. Clark graduated from Yale University as a member of the class of 1957. During his time at Yale he was a member of Skull and Bones, and head of the undergraduate student governing council. Clark earned a Master's Degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.
As Director of Undergraduate Admissions (1965-1969) at Yale University, Clark oversaw the school's transition to a coeducational admission policy, and shares credit with Yale President Kingman Brewster for establishing academic credentials in the admissions process. For decades in college admissions to prestigious, northeastern colleges, "character" had been used seemingly as a code to limit the number of acceptances afforded to secondary...
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