Title: Marco Clark
Class Yr: 1989
Title: President
Group Title: Holy Cross Faculty at Notre Dame
1. In a single sentence, what does your job entail?
President and CEO in Catholic larger schooling
2. What deliberate and unplanned occasions linked you to your trade and your first employer after Holy Cross? How did you study/resolve it was a very good match for you?
With an curiosity in schooling, Dean Joe Maguire assisted me to take schooling courses at different schools within the Worcester consortium. He additionally aided me to get an internship within the Auburn and Oxford public college system working with in danger youth in a program referred to as Challenge JOBS/Challenge COFFEE. As effectively, since I performed soccer at Holy Cross, I had an curiosity in teaching. Between my want to educate and the work I did with at-risk youth, I used to be provided a place as a steering counselor and coach following commencement. It was a terrific match for me. One factor I acknowledged by my interview course of is that I might have nice mentors to study from in my early profession. After spending the previous 34+ years in Catholic schooling, I typically mirror on the way it all started. I actually simply wished to be a highschool or school soccer coach. God clearly had different plans, and for that I’m grateful.
3. What had been you concerned in once you had been on campus?
Soccer, intramurals, SPUD
4. What was your main and the way did it have an effect on your profession selections?
Psychology. I wasn’t positive what I wished to do with the diploma till I did an internship working 1:1 with at-risk youth (see above).
5. What are one or two expertise that you just developed at Holy Cross that you just use in your work?
Writing/communication expertise, public talking, crucial pondering, viewing every little thing by a lens of fairness and justice.
6. What recommendation do you’ve gotten for college students on campus immediately?
Take all of it in. The times may be lengthy, however the years go quick. Additionally, discover a mentor and don’t hesitate to succeed in out for steering and route, together with potential religious route. As you search to find extra about your pursuits and profession path, suppose with a vocation mindset, pray, and discern what God is asking you to. The religious author Frederick Buechner said, “Vocation is when your deep gladness meets with the deep wants of the world.” Be in quest of that deep gladness and have the competence to see and the braveness to behave on the deep wants of the world and you’ll have discovered your vocation.
