Skate Time

Yesterday’s ice skating event was a big success. We had a great turnout of Clinton School students, faculty and staff along with kids from Safe Places and Arkansas Commitment. The group christened the new outdoor River Market ice rink. A big thanks to LRCVB for helping make the event possible. Here a some photos by Jacob Slaton:

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Bhutto Visits

Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford welcomed Sanam “Sunny” Bhutto, sister of the late Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, to the Clinton School Thursday.

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Scholar Visits

William J. Clinton Distinguished Scholar Avind Singhal, who will return to the Clinton School this spring to teach Dynamics of Social Change, spent time today with Clinton School students on a brief visit to Little Rock.

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Supporting Public Radio

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.

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Dean: 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.

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Scholar 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.

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Field 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.

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Dean 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.

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Welcoming 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.

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Dean 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:

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