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The Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program works across the country to bring incarcerated men and women together with college students to learn as peers in the same classroom.  More than thirty CHC students have participated in Inside-Out literature classes at the Oregon State Penitentiary.  Past participants call this the most transformative experience they have had at the UO.

The Clark Honors College undergraduate experience culminates in the thesis, a required advanced research project completed in the student's major field. Students develop traits that contribute to future success in graduate school, post-graduation careers, and civic commitments. The thesis embodies the defining characteristics of a Clark Honors College education: mental discipline; independence of mind and judgment; capacity to design and execute a complex project; ability to focus and pursue a subject in depth; and skills of analysis, synthesis, and clear writing.

The Clark Honors College values debate in the public space, and inaugurated its summer reading program in 2009. Student Alex Goodell took the lead in organizing the first summer reading program book, Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains (Random House, 2004). Mountains Beyond Mountains follows Dr. Paul Farmer's efforts to grapple with poverty and medical care in Haiti, and addresses such pressing issues as global health, healthcare choices, foreign policy, class struggle, and idealism.