Little Rock-based Reuters writer Suzi Parker published a feature this weekend about the new class of students at the Clinton School.
Parker talked with several members of the Class of 2013 and joined them Friday when they signed the “Bucket List On Main” in downtown Little Rock. The article made the Reuters national wire.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark (Reuters) – In his native country of Thailand, Eakpot Nimkulrat is a neurologist.
But at age 43, Nimkulrat has embarked on a new adventure as a graduate student at the Clinton School of Public Service, founded by the former U.S. president and the first school in the nation to offer a Master of Public Service degree.
Nimkulrat and his 37 classmates gathered in downtown Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday — Bill Clinton’s 65th birthday — to write on a public art project that asks people what they want to accomplish before they die. It was one of their first assignments.
Nimkulrat’s answer? To become Thailand’s prime minister.
“I believe that you can do anything with power and knowledge,” Nimkulrat said.
That’s why he chose to attend the school that bears his role model’s name.
Clinton founded the school, which is part of the University of Arkansas system and funded by the state, in 2005. Students take classes in a restored 1800s red brick train station adjacent to his presidential library that opened in 2004. To date, more than 115 students have graduated from the school.