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Mentors Are My Secret Weapon!

2 years 1 month ago
by Bob Clark, Executive Chairman and Founder, Clayco From Bob Clark Beyond: Since I acquired a self-inflicted poor education, I was really going to need life teachers and business mentors. As a well-defined Attention Deficit member, in the fifth grade my mind was on the construction project next to my school instead of studying during […]
Tom Finan

Deconstructing Many Myths About Women in Construction

2 years 1 month ago
From REjournals:  To mark Women in Construction Week 2024 – which enters its final day today – Clayco, which has Midwest offices in Overland and Clayton, Missouri; Lenexa, Kansas; and Chicago, polled its female leaders about the many myths surrounding women in the construction industry and the actual truths that shatter those falsehoods. Here is […]
Dede Hance

Wash U’s co-founder has a complicated past. A new board could take up his legacy

2 years 1 month ago
For many years, Washington University has portrayed one of its founders, William Greenleaf Eliot, as an abolitionist. But, in 2021, a group of students and faculty released findings that disproved that notion and even showed Eliot was vehemently opposed to abolitionism. Three years later, the university has now established a Naming Review Board that gives people the opportunity to challenge the names of buildings, professorships, and scholarships that are named after people with problematic legacies.