COPACE programs and courses reflect the strengths of Clark University as well as the educational needs of the community that we serve. COPACE shares Clark University’s strengths in liberal arts, psychology, geography, environmental studies, and international and interdisciplinary programs. Our programs and courses in language and culture, English as a Second Language, communications and computer science all focus our strengths on the immediate needs of an increasingly heterogenous community.

The great flexibility of the COPACE curriculum, especially in our interdisciplinary programs, enhances your opportunities to attain your educational goals. With this flexibility and individual attention—the COPACE hallmark—we find that our students’ talents and interests flourish. Our small classes allow for greater student participation and more personal consideration from the faculty. Additional educational needs are met by our tutoring and educational assistance programs.

Our current students and more than 2300 graduates world-wide enrich the community through their professional contributions, community service, and work in neighborhood and religious organizations. In Worcester, our Teacher's Center for Global Studies provides local school teachers with training and resources to enable them to incorporate global perspectives into their curriculums. Our American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) serves the educational, and often social, needs of the area’s rapidly growing international community. The decision to relocate all of our community-based programs to 138 Woodland Street underscores COPACE’s commitment to the community. This COPACE facility houses ALCI, the Teacher's Center for Global Studies, and the Global Transitions Institute.

In eastern Massachusetts, COPACE’s new Graduate Management Center in Framingham provides world-class accredited graduate programs for working professionals. Our Computer Career Institute with major facilities in Framingham, Cambridge, Braintree, and Woburn provides significant community-based training and retraining for computer professionals and those entering the computer field.

COPACE conducts training and educational programs all over the world as well as hosting students and training delegations from around the world. COPACE’s Graduate Programs division offers a program of graduate study in Israel. ALCI draws significant numbers of students from Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. During the past five years, through our Global Transitions Institute, COPACE has trained significant numbers of managers from France, the New Independent States of the former Soviet Union, China, and Western Africa, in such diverse areas as competition and public enterprise, defense conversion, legislative reform, and international management.

COPACE faculty teaching in these programs are drawn from Clark University and COPACE, and from universities, governments and businesses worldwide. COPACE faculty bring their hands-on experience teaching in these programs back to Clark and COPACE, incorporating what they have learned into our Worcester campus programs.

COPACE students can intern in any of our programs abroad as well as benefit directly through classroom interaction at Clark with fellow students coming from the four corners of the world.

We at COPACE understand that our commitment to offer enriching, challenging programs to adult learners starts with the individual, but has far-reaching consequences. We invite you to become part of the College of Professional and Continuing Education. We offer you not only substantial and creative opportunities—we offer you the world!

Thomas P. Massey, Ph.D.
Dean, College of Professional and Continuing Education