For their Practicum public service project, a team of Clinton School students is helping promote special events at an Arkadelphia, Ark.,-based restaurant that employs adults with developmental disabilities. As part of the project, the students issued a press release today about a special Valentine’s Day dinner theater promotion at the Honeycomb Restaurant and Bakery. The…
Read MoreClinton School, Arkansas Advocates Partner to Raise Awareness for Tax Credit
As part of their Clinton School Practicum project, a team of students is working with Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) to raise awareness about Arkansas’s Earned Income Tax Credit, which can dramatically affect the quality of life of low- to middle-wage workers.
Read MoreStudent Studies Effort to Create Family Literacy Program
Clinton School student Laura Crosby (‘13) partnered with Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY USA) to determine the feasibility of creating a home visitation program to give parents of kindergarten to third-grade students the skills and knowledge to support their child’s literacy development.
Read MoreStudents Help Create Website for Practicum Project
Clinton School students Aliyah Sarkar, Cathrine Schwader, Jacob Perry and Nicholas Provencher worked with Group Living, Inc., and Bridgette Bass of Arkadelphia Media to create a new website for the Honeycomb Restaurant and Bakery, which employs individuals with developmental disabilities to help them achieve independence in their community.
Read MoreGraduates Participate in Inauguration Events
A number of Clinton School graduates who living and working in Washington D.C., attended Monday’s presidential inauguration festivities.
Read MoreConcurrent Degree Student Completes Independent Study in Mongolia
Burt Hicks, a concurrent degree student at the Clinton School of Public Service and the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law, spent the fall semester in Mongolia researching a new law related to foreign investment in the country.
Read MoreGrad Writes About Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
Noisette recently posted a piece on the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. In it, Noisette notes that Lincoln understood that slavery deprived a person of the “fruits of his or her own labor.”
Read MoreGrad Has Divided Loyalties in College Football Championship
We were forwarded a fun article this morning about a Clinton School grad who is facing a difficult choice — who to cheer for in Monday’s college football national championship.
Read MoreStudents Send Supplies for Superstorm Sandy Relief
President Clinton and student Danae Halstead at this year’s holiday party. President Clinton and student Danae Halstead at this year’s holiday party.
Read MoreStudent Helps Improve Business Registration Process in Mongolia
Clinton School student Burt Hicks (’13) partnered with the Business Plus Initiative, a project funded by United States Agency for International Development and implemented by Chemonics International, to improve the company registration process in Mongolia.
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