Clinton School of Public Service

🐗 Celebrate All UA Day with $20 Razorback Football Tickets! 🐗

In celebration of the 3rd annual "All UA Day," the University of Arkansas System is offering $20 tickets for the Razorback Football home opener on Sept. 5!

This special offer is open to all UA System students, faculty, staff, alumni, and their families across all campuses, divisions, and units—including our Clinton School community!

👉 Grab your tickets and learn more here: https://uasys.edu/news/celebrate-the-hogs-and-the-ua-system-with-20-tickets-to-the-2026-home-opener-sept-5/

Please join us in celebrating Donna McLarty, an inaugural member of the Clinton School Dean’s Advisory Board, on being named a finalist for the Board Member of the Year Award by Arkansas Business! 🌟

Congratulations, Donna, on this well-deserved honor! 👏

Dean’s Advisory Board Member Donna McLarty Named Finalist for Board Member of the Year Award - Clinton School of Public Service Donna McLarty has been named a finalist for the Board Member of the Year Award of the Arkansas Business Executive of the Year Awards.

We are thrilled to welcome three exceptional leaders to the Clinton School of Public Service Dean’s Advisory Board! 🎓✨

Please join us in celebrating:

🔹 Kelly Eichler – Veteran attorney, former Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas System, and key policy leader across three Arkansas gubernatorial administrations.

🔹 Alejandra Y. Castillo – Chancellor’s Senior Fellow for Economic Development at Purdue Northwest, focusing on the launch of the Roberts Impact Lab on quantum computing, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

🔹 Sanford Johnson (’09) – Clinton School alumnus, education policy advocate, and Executive Director of Teach Plus Arkansas-Mississippi.

Clinton School Names Castillo, Eichler, and Johnson to Dean’s Advisory Board - Clinton School of Public Service The Clinton School has named Alejandra Castillo, Kelly Eichler, and Sanford Johnson as the newest members of the Dean’s Advisory Board.

Clinton School student Niki Brunson Saunders has been accepted into the Arkansas Collegiate Civic Leadership Academy Class of 2027! 🌟

Hosted by the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, this is a yearlong leadership program that unites standout student leaders from higher education institutions across the state. 👏

Clinton School Student Selected for Arkansas Collegiate Civic Leadership Academy - Clinton School of Public Service Clinton School student Niki Brunson Saunders has been accepted into the Arkansas Collegiate Civic Leadership Academy Class of 2027.

Join us in congratulating Clinton School Dean Victoria DeFrancesco Soto on completing the Institute for Educational Management program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education! 🎓✨

Ashley Delgado’s public service research is making headlines again! Public News Service recently ran a feature on the historic dual immersion language program launching this month at Little Rock's Chicot and Watson elementary schools by Little Rock School District!

Dual language program coming to Arkansas schools Students in two Little Rock elementary schools will be the first in the state to participate in a dual immersion language program.Starting next month, core coursework at Chicot and Watson

From a Clinton School Capstone project to a 2026 Civic Hub grantee! We are incredibly proud of CSO alumna Patricia Ashanti (’20) and her nonprofit, Delta Circles, which was recently featured by the Trust for Civic Life.

Serving the Arkansas Delta as a technology center, business incubator, and civic anchor, Delta Circles transformed an abandoned school into the Eliza Miller Opportunity Hub in West Helena. With the grant, Delta Circles will continue to serve the community with a new hands-on skills training center offering HVAC, carpentry, art design, and innovation programming.

🌟 Read the inspiring story of Patricia's work and the opportunities ahead for Delta Circles: https://trustforciviclife.org/grantees/delta-circles/

Outdoor recreation is an absolute economic engine for Arkansas, contributing $5 billion to the state’s GDP!

To help build a robust, well-prepared workforce for the future, a graduate research team from the Clinton School of Public Service spent the academic year conducting fieldwork and analyzing pipelines alongside the Arkansas Office of Outdoor Recreation. Their comprehensive report details key strategies to expand employment and promote responsible environmental stewardship across the state.

Clinton School Team Charts Strategic Workforce Roadmap for Arkansas’s Growing Outdoor Recreation Industry - Clinton School of Public Service A team of Clinton School students spent the 2025-26 academic year evaluating workforce development in Arkansas outdoor recreation.

Clinton School student Myletta Moore-Dawson worked alongside Shepherd's Hope Health Centers, Inc. a volunteer-driven free clinic in Little Rock providing essential medical, dental, and specialty care.

Myletta developed a full evaluation blueprint - including logic models, referral tracking tools, and cost-benefit analysis frameworks - to help the clinic track patient progress and demonstrate its medical value to grantors and community partners.

Moore-Dawson Develops Evaluation Blueprint for Shepherd’s Hope Health Centers - Clinton School of Public Service Clinton School of Public Service graduate student Myletta Moore-Dawson worked with Shepherd’s Hope Health Centers, Inc.

At this week's UA System Public Safety Conference at UAMS - University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, session leaders highlighted key findings from a research project completed by a team of Clinton School graduate students for their Practicum project.

We want to extend a sincere thank you to Dr. Terisa Riley, Chancellor at University of Arkansas - Fort Smith, and Jennifer King, Chief of Staff, for presenting our students' research on emergency management in the University of Arkansas System.