Clinton School permanent faculty members are, and have been, engaged in numerous teaching, research, and public service activities.
Dr. Susan Hoffpauir, associate dean for academic affairs, leads the faculty and has coordinated the school’s 10-year review for the Arkansas Department of Higher Education. The 10-year review is scheduled to be finalized and distributed before the end of the year.
In addition to their instructional and advising responsibilities, faculty achievements include:
Dr. Al Bavon‘s article “Preparing African Public Administrators for Development Management: Student Learning Outcomes Assessment for Performance Improvement” is scheduled for publication in the October 2014 Journal of Public Affairs Education. He is currently serving as an external evaluator with the Arkansas Department of Health Coordinated Chronic Disease Prevention Program and is working with Metroplan on a Center for Disease Control Grant Proposal regarding partnerships to improve community health. He is the co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant proposal: “A Resilient Urban Ecosystem Services Sustainability Research Network.” Bavon has extensive involvement with professional associations and is a peer reviewer for several major journals.
Dr. Christy Standerfer is the co-author of “Holding Nonprofits Accountable for Accomplishments not Appearances” which is being published by the Oxford University Press. A Fulbright Scholar in Albania during the 2012-2013 school year, Standerfer will be presenting “Fulbright Experiences: Expanding Boundaries and Building Partnerships” at the 2014 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) Annual Conference in Albuquerque, N.M. Standerfer recently produced a report about her consultation with the Albanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the United States Embassy in Tirana, Albania. Through 2017, she is serving as a reviewer for Eastern Europe Countries, US Department of State/Council of International Exchanges, and is working on a research consortium that will include universities in Albania, Austria, Italy, and the United States.
Dr. Charlotte Williams, has received a major grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help the Clinton School’s Center on Community Philanthropy, which she directs, foster an increase in community philanthropy by promoting strategies that build new models, innovations and collaborations to improve the conditions of vulnerable children and families in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta region. Since 2008, Williams has brought over $1.3 million in external funding to the Clinton School and has welcomed over 20 Visiting Scholars to the school. She and Visiting Philanthropy Faculty Travis Dixon have co-authored “The Changing Misrepresentation of Race and Crime in Network and Cable News,” which will be published in the Journal of Communication.
Dr. Ellen Fitzpatrick is currently working with Heifer international on research regarding the integration and measurement of social capital in pro-poor development projects. Her article “Egypt: Enhancing Capacity for Research in Economics” was published in Higher Education for Development. She also completed an evaluation of a USAID project in Higher Education at the University of Cairo and Georgia State University. Fitzpatrick is an advisory board member and adjunct professor in the Office of Global Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
Dr. Warigia Bowman is author of the chapter “Imagining a Modern Rwanda: Socio-technical Imaginaries, Information Technology and the Post-genocide State” in the book “Socio-technical Imaginaries” being published by University of Chicago Press later this year. She served as a panelist at the Geostrategic Intelligence Seminar on Technology in Africa held at the National Intelligence University in Washington D.C. She is an invited reviewer for the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory and the Journal of Information Technology for Development. She is currently working with the University of Pennsylvania/Carnegie Corporation as a co-principal investigator for a grant on Information and Communication Technology, State-Building, and Peace-Building in Eastern Africa.
Professor Marie Lindquist led the Clinton School’s proposal to successfully co-host the 2015 Gulf South Summit on Service Learning and Civic Engagement through Higher Education– its first time ever to be held in Arkansas. She conducted “Liberating Structures” workshops at the 2014 InterAction Forum, the 2014 Gulf South Summit, Tulane University, and the Arkansas Department of Health and Human Services. She even conducted a Liberating Structure at the 2014 Clinton School graduation – the first of its kind at a college graduation. Lindquist developed a partnership between the Clinton School and Arkansas Teachers Corps to integrate service into the Fellowship experience and assisted the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas with completing its 2013 Status of Women in Arkansas report.
Others who are permanent/part time on the Clinton School faculty include Professor and former Dean John DiPippa of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law; Education Professor Don Ernst with the Butler Center of Arkansas Studies; and Dr. Arvind Singhal, a professor at the University of Texas at El Paso. The Clinton School recruits professionals to teach elective courses in fundraising, grant-writing, non-profit marketing, and urban studies.
Responses