Forty-one students will graduate with a Master of Public Service (MPS) degree from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service (UACS) during the 2016 commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 15th at 1:30 p.m. on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock.
President Bill Clinton, founder of the Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States, will deliver the school’s 10th commencement address. Established in 2004, the Clinton School of Public Service was the first graduate school in the nation to offer a Master of Public Service degree.
The 41 graduates are the 10th class to graduate from the Master of Public Service degree program. During the past two years in the program, the graduates completed a 40-hour curriculum, including three field service projects: a team-based project in Arkansas, an international public service project, and a final individual project.
The graduates also benefitted from participating in the Clinton School Speaker Series, which hosted more than 200 speakers during their two years in the program, including Henry Cisneros, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Patterson Hood, co-founder of the band Drive-By Truckers; and Dambisa Moyo, economist and author.
Attendees of the graduation ceremony are asked to consider bringing donations for the Arkansas Foodbank. To contribute to this effort, guests are asked to bring protein items, such as tuna fish, peanut butter, or bags of beans, to the May 15th ceremony. Giving at graduation has been a tradition at the Clinton School since 2010. Previous organizational recipients include Volunteers in Public Schools; Our House; Arkansas Children’s Hospital Mobile Dental Clinic; The Van; Jericho Way Resource Center; and Little Rock Children’s Library.
On Twitter, we will be using the hashtags #UACS2016 and #BuildingBridges from the @ClintonSchool Twitter account.
Press credentials are required to attend the ceremony and available upon request.
The Class of 2016:
Joyce Ajayi (Lagos, Nigeria)
Joyce Akidi (Pader, Uganda)
Nouroudine Alassane (Bassila, Benin)
Berkeley Anderson (Waco, Texas)
Kathryn Baxter (Glenside, Penn.)
Abigail Bi (Kunming, Yunnan Province, China)
Romerse Biddle (Magnolia, Ark.)
Katherine Brown (Canton, Mich.)
Jordan Butler (Jackson, Miss.)
Melvin Clayton (Pine Bluff, Ark.)
Amanda Cullen (Panama City, Fla.)
Andrew Forsman (Mobile, Ala.)
Sarah Fuchs (Hayward, Calif.)
Georgia Genoway (Maryland County, Liberia)
Jennifer Guzman (Hialeah, Fla.)
Anne Haley (Little Rock, Ark.)
Austin Hall (Hot Springs, Ark.)
Austin Harrison (Louisville, Miss.)
Caroline Head (Little Rock, Ark.)
Amber Jackson (Camden, Ark.)
LaKaija Johnson (Oklahoma City, Okla.)
Akaylah Jones (Little Rock, Ark.)
Henry Karlin (Brooklyn, NY)
Helen Grace King (Pine Bluff, Ark.)
Alex Lanis (Ada, Okla.)
Coby MacMaster (Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.)
Amanda Mathies (Newport Beach, Calif.)
Emma McAuley (Glenview, Ill.)
Molly Miller (Sand Springs, Okla.)
Ashley-Brooke Moses (Sharpsburg, Ga.)
Florence Mueni (Nairobi, Kenya)
Dariane Mull (Little Rock, Ark.)
Michelle Perez Ferrer (Maracaibo, Venezuela)
Shanell Ransom (Columbia, SC)
Maddy Salzman (Wellesley, Mass.)
Eddie Savala (Nairobi, Kenya)
Kat Short (Hot Springs, Ark.)
Dustin Smith (Jonesboro, Ark.)
Becky Twamley (Brainerd, Minn.)
Nathan Watson (Fayetteville, Ark.)
Nicholas Williams (Judsonia, Ark.)
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