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Clinton support laid out in memo
Ex-aide details scenario on dean
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This undated composite photo shows (from left) Cliff Gibson, a member of the University of Arkansas board of trustees; Todd Shields, dean of UA’s Fulbright College; and UA System President Donald Bobbitt.
A former aide in the Bill Clinton White House linked financial benefits and Clinton support to a specific outcome in the search for the next leader of the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock.
Marsha Scott, a former White House personnel office chief of staff and now working at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, sent a talking points document on May 21 to Monticello attorney and University of Arkansas System board of trustees member Cliff Gibson.
FILE - The Clinton School of Public Service
Three finalists have been named for the dean s position at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas System President Donald Bobbitt said Wednesday.
Bobbitt is looking for someone to replace Skip Rutherford, who retired effective June 30 after serving as top administrator for the school since 2006.
The finalists, who will make visits to the campus in coming weeks, are:
• Lara M. Brown, professor of political management and director of the George Washington University Graduate School of Political Management. Brown earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in political science at the University of California, Los Angeles and a master’s in American politics and public policy from the University of Arizona. She visits July 26.
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Virus exacts toll on women’s retirement savings, workplace diversity efforts – panel
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto
Pensions & Investments Defined Contribution Spring Virtual Series held March 8-11.
With the pandemic bringing those issues into sharp relief, talk centered on the shecession, a reference to the COVID-19-triggered exodus of women from the workforce as they wrestled with the lack of child care options.
During a panel discussion on the first day of the conference, which coincided with International Women s Day, speakers lamented the departure of women from the workplace, which they said not only hurt women s retirement security but also damaged gender diversity efforts at the companies where they worked.