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Clinton School Students to Visit University of Arkansas
-- Posted by tfisher on Friday, August 29 2008

Thirty new students entering the Master of Public Service degree program at the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock will be on campus at the University of Arkansas this weekend for a luncheon, campus tour and the football game. Two of the students are graduates of the University of Arkansas. Alejandro Aviles (‘08) earned a bachelor’s in sociology and Lindsey Barnett (’04) earned a bachelor’s in anthropology, both from the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

The class is the fourth to enter into the program that began with just 16 students in 2005. The new students come from a variety of backgrounds, hailing from 11 states and five countries including Brazil, Indonesia, Poland, Uganda and Ukraine. Arkansas is well represented in the class with 15 students having lived, worked or attended college in the state.

The new class, expected to graduate from the two-year program in spring 2010, joins 30 students from the class of 2009 to give the Clinton School a total of 60 students, making it larger than the average graduate program in Arkansas. In just three years, the school has nearly quadrupled in size.

Aviles has worked as a community outreach coordinator for Legal Aid of Arkansas and as a community resources coordinator for the City of Fayetteville, Ark., his hometown. He’s also done extensive volunteer work as a steering committee member for the Arkansas Citizens First Congress and as a member of the Arkansas Task Force on Latino & Hispanic Affairs, appointed by then Governor Mike Huckabee. Additionally, Aviles was selected by U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln to attend the U.S. Senate Hispanic Youth Summit in 2007.

A former family support specialist for the Arkansas Department of Human Services, Barnett’s work experience also includes a stint helping protect nutrient-sensitive watersheds and promoting responsible poultry farm management for BMPs Inc., an environmental nonprofit. Barnett is a native of Springdale, Ark.

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