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Modeled on legal and health clinics, campus units that give students hands-on training while providing a community service gain university, corporate and government backing. Community clinics have been a staple of professional education for decades: think of law students, with guidance from their professors, shepherding survivors of domestic abuse through the byzantine family law system or helping small businesses understand and navigate local zoning laws. Or dental students, under the watchful eye of their instructors, filling a child’s cavity or fitting a crown over the broken tooth of an unemployed adult.
Three years ago, then-Gov. Asa Hutchinson signed legislation requiring high school students to take a computer science course before graduating, an effort pushed by the governor to develop an advanced workforce with some technical capabilities.