Metropolitan Bank Executive Virgil Miller and Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford will once again team up to raise money for KUAR/KLRE, the Central Arkansas affiliates for National Public Radio.
Read MoreDean: Feds Should Create Gulf Volunteer Network
The Center for a Better South has released a listing of ideas and recommendations it made to the U.S. Navy about how to improve the lives of residents of the Gulf Coast, particularly those impacted by the recent oil spill.
Read MoreScholar To Serve on Global Polio Eradication Board
Clinton School visiting scholar Arvind Singal has been invited to serve on a board to implement a three-year strategic plan for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) to eradicate wild poliovirus.
Read MoreField Service Session
The new Clinton School students met with their field service directors, Marie Lindquist and Joe Ballard, along with graduate assistants Julianne Dunn, Sophia Said and David Monteith on Wednesday for a session about the three public service projects that make up the school’s field service curriculum.
Read MoreDean to Address Tax Administrators
Dean Skip Rutherford will deliver the keynote address Monday at the annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Tax Administrators (SEATA) in Little Rock. SEATA is an association of state tax administrators and professors from 12 southern states.
Read MoreWelcoming Associate Dean Shields
Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford hosted a reception Wednesday to welcome Todd Shields, the school’s new interim dean for academic affairs.
Read MoreDean Calls for Volunteers to Help Gulf
In an Op Ed published today, Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford and Andy Brock, president of the Center for a Better South, call for a national volunteer center to help with the Gulf Oil spill. Posted on The Hill Congress blog, the Op Ed proposes a database like Craigslist to match community needs in the Gulf with volunteers who want to help with the clean up. Here’s an excerpt:
Read MoreDean Named to Foundation Board
Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford has been named to the board of the Foundation for the Mid South. Headquartered in Jackson, Miss., the foundation invests in people and strategies that build philanthropy and promote racial, social and economic equity in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.
Read MoreLittle Rock Film Festival: Sunday
On the final day of the Little Rock Film Festival, the Clinton School screened three more documentaries, including “The Last Survivor,” about preventing genocide
Read MoreAssociate Dean Analyzes Voting in the South
Three University of Arkansas political science professors, including Clinton School interim associate dean Todd Shields, recently analyzed the 2008 presidential election in two southern states, finding that voting behavior was influenced by “modern symbolic racism.”
Read More