The Women’s Foundation of Arkansas, which has partnered with the Clinton School on several projects, highlighted the work of a Clinton School student in its recent newsletter.
Recent Clinton School graduate Hilary Trudell (’12) worked with the foundation to examine the future goals and interests of Arkansas’s high school senior girls. The results of Trudell’s study will be released later this month. Here’s a quote about the project from the WFA newsletter:
In 2011, WFA partnered with Hilary Trudell, a student at the Clinton School of Public Service, to develop a survey that gauges soon-to-be high school graduates’ future educational plans and career goals. High school counselors were also surveyed. The report was designed to update information included in the 1973 Report of the Status of Women in Arkansas commissioned by Governor Dale Bumpers. According to Trudell’s study, 68.7 percent of those surveyed indicated plans to attend a four-year college. Nursing was the most claimed field of interest among respondents. School counselors listed lack of motivation, the cost of college, and the desire to make money in the workforce as the top reasons why girls do not pursue post-secondary education.
The research is based on 492 surveys completed by graduating high school senior females representing 19 Arkansas schools. Trudell will present her report to a gathering of Arkansas Business Publishing Group’s Top 100 Women preceding this year’s Little Rock Power of the Purse luncheon. Copies of the report will be available at the luncheon.
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