The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) held its board meeting in Little Rock today. A member of the CPB board of directors and Founding Dean of the Clinton School, Senator David Pryor, hosted the lunch at Choctaw. Speakers included Arkansas Gardener, P. Allen Smith (featured above); Executive Director of the Clinton Foundation, Stephanie Streett; President of Heifer International, Jo Luck; and Dean Skip Rutherford.
Read MoreNew Clinton School Film on YouTube
The new Clinton School short film, launched yesterday on our main Web site, is now up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. Check it out:
Read MoreTauzin Touts Coverage For All
Former Louisiana Congressman turned pharmaceutical industry lobbyist Billy Tauzin said America needs health insurance coverage for everyone in a speech today at the Clinton School. Tauzin, a cancer survivor, took the post as head of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) in January of 2005. The Associated Press was on hand for the speech
Read More40 Hours of Famine
Clinton School grad Dustin Freeman is leading the call to 40 Hours of Famine, a symbolic fast to raise money and awareness for the global hunger crisis caused by skyrocketing food prices. Freeman is organizing both religious and secular groups to complete the fast.
Read MoreFilm Festival a Hit
As is mentioned in the post below, the Little Rock film festival events at the Clinton School this weekend were a big hit for the second year in a row. The Clinton School showed “Lioness,” a documentary following five women soldiers on the front lines of the Iraq War, and “Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater,” the story of the late Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona who ran for president in 1964 against Lyndon Johnson
Read MoreThis and That
About half of our students leave this week for their summer international projects with others leaving over the next couple of weeks. This summer our students will be performing public service projects on the world’s six inhabited continents including a few who will be working on international projects in Arkansas, New York and Washington D.C.
Read MoreStudent Makes Cover of SYNC
SYNC Weekly, the local tabloid newspaper geared toward young readers, did its cover story this week on Clinton School student Marquita Little. Little is traveling to Johannesburg, South Africa, this summer to complete her International Public Service Project with Oprah Winfrey’s Leadership Academy. She is a Little Rock native who graduated from McClellan High School and Hendrix College in Conway. Below is a snipet from the article. Click here for the full story.
Read MoreObama and Local Races
The Morning News of Northwest Arkansas has an account this morning of the visit of Texas State Rep Mark Strama to the Clinton School yesterday. Strama, the former program director for MTV’s Rock the Vote, said Democratic presidential frontrunner Barack Obama could be a factor in local races this year because of his support among young voters.
Read MoreBowen School of Law’s Commencement
I’ll be speaking Saturday afternoon at the 2008 commencement of the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law. Together the Bowen School and the Clinton School now offer the nation’s first joint JD/MPS degree. In 2009, Idonia Trotter is projected to be the first student to receive the joint degree. As part of my graduation comments, I’ll continue to lift up two of my major concerns: student loan debt and the need for scholarships.
Read MoreEvents Next Week
The Clinton School Speaker Series kicks back up next week with two speeches and two film screenings as part of the Little Rock Film Festival. Here’s the info:
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