Category: Faculty

Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford hosted a reception Wednesday to welcome Todd Shields, the school’s new interim dean for academic affairs.

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:

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.

On the final day of the Little Rock Film Festival, the Clinton School screened three more documentaries, including “The Last Survivor,” about preventing genocide

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.”

Clinton School Dean Skip Rutherford is speaking this morning at the Pine Bluff Business Expo. The theme of the event is “Focus on Community,” and Dean Rutherford will be discussing the Clinton School field service work, community philanthropy and why outcomes and results are important for community building.

Rutherford will join Little Rock Convention and Visitors Bureau CEO Dan O’Byrne, local developer Jimmy Moses and Sharon Priest, executive director of the Downtown Little Rock Partnership to discuss the recent growth in the River Market District. The conference theme is “Linking Tourism and Development.”