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Clarke University is a private Catholic university in Dubuque, Iowa. It was founded in 1843 as St. Mary's Female Academy by Mother Mary Frances Clarke, foundress of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The campus sits on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque.
Great Plains Athletic Conference: University of British ... Clarke University: Crusaders: Dubuque: ... Wolverine–Hoosier Athletic Conference: Lewis–Clark State ...
The university competes intercollegiately in 17 NCAA Division III varsity sports as the Clark Cougars and is a part of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference. Clark faculty, alumni, and affiliates have included business executives and inventors of the wind chill factor and the birth control pill .
While going about her daily work as director of residence life for Clark University, Catherine Smith paused Thursday when she received a notification that a bear was spotted in the Dubuque area.
1995 - Clark University joined the NEW-8 in the 1995–96 academic year. 1998 - The NEW-8 offered men's sports and was rebranded as the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC), beginning the 1998–99 academic year.
(For schools whose athletic branding does not directly correspond with the school name, the athletic branding is in parentheses.) Conference affiliations reflect those in the 2025 season. Years of conference changes, indicated in footnotes, reflect softball seasons, which take place in the calendar year after a conference change takes effect.
Sonia Gardner – co-founder of Avenue Capital Group; Jacob Hiatt – former president of Rand-Whitney, acquired by Kraft Group in 1972, Hiatt's daughter Myra married Robert Kraft; namesake of Clark's Jacob Hiatt Center for Urban Education and Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology, life trustee of Clark University (master's 1946, LLD 1977)
Eddie Anderson, head football coach at Columbia College in Dubuque (1922–1924), DePaul University (1925–1931), the College of the Holy Cross (1933–1938, 1950–1964), and the University of Iowa (1939–1942, 1946–1949); played professional football in the NFL for the Rochester Jeffersons in 1922 and the Chicago Cardinals 1922–1925; inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a ...