Frank: Academics for the Real World
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Frank: Academics for the Real World is a publication of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service
. The inaugural issue was released in Fall/Winter 2007. Skip Rutherford, Dean of the Clinton School, is the Publisher. Clinton School Director of Public Programs and Policy Patrick Kennedy is the Editor of Frank. Frank reviews concepts and ideas in public service. The publication, called Frank, and "embodies the Clinton School’s philosophy of straight forward, practical solutions."
Contributors to Frank include students, faculty and staff of the Clinton School, along with participants in the Clinton School Speaker Series. Topics reviewed in Frank range from current events and social trends to politics and popular culture.
The Arkansas Times
said the first issue featured a "long and charmingly varied list of contributions from notable writers and political figures." The Fall/Winter 2007 inaugural issue of Frank was entitled “Has the Dream Arrived?” and focused on race relations in America. It included pieces by or interview with David Eisenhower
, President Bill Clinton
, Carlotta Walls Lanier
, Karl Rove
, Rev. Jesse Jackson
, Richard Dawkins
, Simon Cowell, Eboo Patel, Aneesh Raman, Antonio Villaraigosa
, and President Paul Kagame
of Rwanda.
The first issue also featured an article by Washington Post journalist Walter Pincus
entitled "The Power of the Pen: A Call for Journalistic Courage," reprinted at BTC News. Jay Rosen of PressThink said the Pincus piece in Frank "moved the ball down the court...Pincus does something rare for any mainstream journalist: he openly argues for a more political press."
Editor Patrick Kennedy chose to feature Simon Cowell
of American Idol in a section on pop culture, drawing press attention from the Washington Whispers section of US News & World Report. Cowell said, "I would never go into politics. It can be very annoying when other people in my business go into politics." Frank has also been covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
Clinton School of Public Service
The Clinton School of Public Service is a branch of the University of Arkansas system and is the newest of the presidential schools. It is located on the grounds of the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. The school is housed in a former Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad station...
. The inaugural issue was released in Fall/Winter 2007. Skip Rutherford, Dean of the Clinton School, is the Publisher. Clinton School Director of Public Programs and Policy Patrick Kennedy is the Editor of Frank. Frank reviews concepts and ideas in public service. The publication, called Frank, and "embodies the Clinton School’s philosophy of straight forward, practical solutions."
Contributors to Frank include students, faculty and staff of the Clinton School, along with participants in the Clinton School Speaker Series. Topics reviewed in Frank range from current events and social trends to politics and popular culture.
The Arkansas Times
Arkansas Times
Arkansas Times, a weekly alternative newspaper based in Little Rock, Arkansas, is a publication that has circulated for more than 35 years, originally as a magazine. Its current format stems from reaction to the Arkansas Democrat buyout of assets from Gannett's closure of the Arkansas Gazette in...
said the first issue featured a "long and charmingly varied list of contributions from notable writers and political figures." The Fall/Winter 2007 inaugural issue of Frank was entitled “Has the Dream Arrived?” and focused on race relations in America. It included pieces by or interview with David Eisenhower
David Eisenhower
Dwight David Eisenhower II is an American author, public policy fellow, and eponym of the U.S. Presidential retreat, Camp David. He is the grandson of the 34th President of the United States, Dwight D...
, President Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
, Carlotta Walls Lanier
Carlotta Walls Lanier
Carlotta Walls LaNier was the youngest of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African-American students who, in 1957, were the first black students ever to attend classes at Little Rock Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was the first black female to graduate from Central High School...
, Karl Rove
Karl Rove
Karl Christian Rove was Senior Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff to former President George W. Bush until Rove's resignation on August 31, 2007. He has headed the Office of Political Affairs, the Office of Public Liaison, and the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives...
, Rev. Jesse Jackson
Jesse Jackson
Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to...
, Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
, Simon Cowell, Eboo Patel, Aneesh Raman, Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Villaraigosa
Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa , born Antonio Ramón Villar, Jr., is the 41st and current Mayor of Los Angeles, California, the third Mexican American to have ever held office in the city of Los Angeles and the first in over 130 years. He is also the current president of the United States Conference of...
, and President Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame is the sixth and current President of the Republic of Rwanda. He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front , whose victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide...
of Rwanda.
The first issue also featured an article by Washington Post journalist Walter Pincus
Walter Pincus
Walter Haskell Pincus is a national security journalist for The Washington Post. He has won several prizes including a Polk Award in 1977, a television Emmy in 1981, the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in association with other Washington Post reporters, and the 2010 Arthur Ross Media...
entitled "The Power of the Pen: A Call for Journalistic Courage," reprinted at BTC News. Jay Rosen of PressThink said the Pincus piece in Frank "moved the ball down the court...Pincus does something rare for any mainstream journalist: he openly argues for a more political press."
Editor Patrick Kennedy chose to feature Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...
of American Idol in a section on pop culture, drawing press attention from the Washington Whispers section of US News & World Report. Cowell said, "I would never go into politics. It can be very annoying when other people in my business go into politics." Frank has also been covered by the Chronicle of Higher Education.