Alum Hunter Riley came to the Clinton School as a graduate of the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville in 2007. Since graduating in 2009, he spent more than four years in various roles at the Pat Tillman Foundation. In 2013, he co-founded Schlep, a tech-enabled local logistics and delivery company in Chicago – with operations also in Milwaukee and soon to launch in New York City.
Read MoreQualls spends summer advocating development in Albania
Colby Qualls, a concurrent student at UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, recently completed his International Public Service Project in Albania. Qualls interned at the Albanian Institute of Public Affairs where he helped with research and advocacy related to democratization, good governance, and development.
Read MoreRamm spends summer researching rural health curriculum in India
Natalie Ramm, a concurrent student at the UA Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law, recently completed her International Public Service Project in India. Ramm helped research and update curriculum to teach girls about gender equality, reproductive health, and other important topics.
Read MoreSchifrin Begins Second Visiting Fellowship at Clinton School
American foreign correspondent Nick Schifrin, currently a special correspondent at PBS NewsHour, recently began a visiting fellowship for the second consecutive year at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
Read MoreCampbell Selected to Foreign Affairs Campus Coordinator Program
University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service student Caitlin Campbell of Batesville, Ark., has been selected as one of 50 Foreign Affairs Campus Coordinators by the U.S. Department of State. Campbell spent her summer interning at the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor in Washington, D.C.
Read MoreFox Finds Unique Service Path through Clinton School
A 2016 graduate of the Clinton School, Andrew Forsman currently works at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science as an internal evaluator for a group of early childhood education programs. Forsman came to the Clinton School as a graduate of the University of Alabama with a degree in psychology. His public service experience, at that time, was limited to working as a mental health case manager in southern Mississippi.
Read MoreClinton School Class of 2019 Releases its Recommended Reading List
For the 12th consecutive year, students at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service have compiled a list of books they recommend others read. More than half of the book recommendations from the Class of 2019 are nonfiction, while nearly a third were written by women. The books range in date from Meno, written by Plato in the third century B.C., to Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, released in November 2016.
Read MoreRhodes Comes Full Circle as Practicum Supervisor
Clinton School alum Jenna Rhodes currently works as a program manager for the Childhood Obesity Prevention Research Program and the program operations manager for Arkansas GardenCorps at the Arkansas Children’s Research Institute. As a UACS student, Rhodes was a member of the Practicum team assigned to Delta Garden Study which has since evolved into Arkansas Farm to School, a Practicum project she now helps supervise.
Read MorePartner Profile: EAST Initiative
The Clinton School team will assist EAST Initiative in conducting focus groups with stakeholders at elementary school EAST programs to better understand the unique opportunities and challenges of technology-focused, project-based learning at this age. The students will identify best practices that can be replicated throughout all of our elementary EAST programs.
Read MorePartner Profile: Arkansas Farm to School
The Arkansas Farm to School team will map existing assets that could potentially support farm-to-institution programs across Arkansas. Students will research and review other local food system statewide asset maps from across the nation, aggregate existing databases of assets from various organizations and agencies, and create new databases for currently missing information, all of which will inform the development of a searchable map to be housed online.
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