Kevin D. Cherry, of Roxbury, Mass., has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of Clark University in Worcester. Cherry was elected by the membership of the Clark University Alumni Association. He will serve through June 2019.
Cherry is the chief financial officer of the South End Community Health Center in Boston. Prior to working at the South End Community Health Center, Cherry was a manager with the Public Consulting Group, a consulting firm that serves public sector, education, health, human services and state, county and municipal government clients.
He is a member of the Athletics Hall of Fame at Clark, as well as the New England Basketball Hall of Fame. Cherry earned a bachelor’s degree from Clark in 1981.
Founded in 1887 in Worcester, Clark University is a small, liberal arts-based research university addressing social and human imperatives on a global scale. Nationally renowned as a college that changes lives, Clark is emerging as a transformative force in higher education today. Liberal Education and Effective Practice is Clark’s pioneering model of education that combines a liberal arts curriculum with world and workplace experiences.
Clark’s faculty and students work across boundaries to develop solutions to complex challenges in the natural sciences, psychology, geography, management, urban education, Holocaust and genocide studies, environmental studies, and international development and social change. The Clark educational experience embodies the university’s motto: “Challenge convention. Change our world.”
