Posted by DEAN SKIP RUTHERFORD – In commenting about the many activities at the Clinton School, one of our students used the phrase, “opportunity overload.” For me as Dean, those words represent a pleasant problem. The Clinton School should be all about opening doors of opportunity — whether these be from challenging academic work in the classrooms; or academics for the real world with substantive hands-on public service projects all over the city, state, country and world; or through the enhanced connectional experiences of guest lecturers, community conversations, book signings and films.
Yesterday, nine of our students traveled to the Arkansas Delta to work on their group public service projects. The remaining students had question and answer sessions with United States Senator Blanche Lincoln and U.S. News and Report Editor Brian Kelly when both visited the Clinton School. With all this activity, yesterday was indeed an “opportunity overload.” We need more just like it. It’s what makes our school unique.
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