Starting the Clinton School – A Look Back at Its First Decade

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Clinton-School-of-Public-Service-LogoTo commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Clinton School’s inception, the Clinton School for Public Service will host a panel discussion on the founding of the school.

The first school in the nation to offer a Master of Public Service (MPS) degree, the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service gives students the knowledge and experience to further their careers in the areas of nonprofit, governmental, volunteer or private sector service.  This panel discussion will take a look at the impact of Clinton School students public service projects, ranging from local work in Arkansas communities, to international projects on all of the world’s six inhabited continents.

The panel members include the founding Dean and former U.S. Senator David Pryor, Clinton School staff member Dianne Kelly, founding Associate Dean Dr. Tom Bruce, and Pat Torvestad, who led much of the school’s early planning effort for the University of Arkansas System.

The panel will take a look at the early planning efforts of the school, which opened in 2004.

The program will take place at noon today at Sturgis Hall, which Dean Pryor would lovingly call the “little red school house.”