CONWAY, Ark. (March 12, 2014) – Hendrix students Samia
Nawaz ’14 and
Jill Nguyen ’15 were
selected to be among 1,000 student leaders to attend the annual Clinton Global
Initiative University meeting this spring at Arizona State University.
The program is hosted by President Bill Clinton,
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Clinton Foundation
Vice Chair Chelsea Clinton. Undergraduate and graduate students will
“engage in developing solutions to some of the most pressing concerns of the
Millennial generation, including human rights, women’s social and economic
empowerment, and combatting HIV/AIDS in the United States.”
As attendees, both students have chosen to work on
projects. Nawaz, a senior from Little Rock, Ark., will work with She's The
First, a non-profit organization that sponsors girls' education in developing
countries to create first-generation graduates.
Nguyen, a junior from Hanoi, Vietnam, is working on a
project that promotes bilingual education for the H'mong students in northwest
Vietnam to preserve the ethnic H'mong language and help students succeed in
school with standardized Vietnamese textbooks.
Both students are sponsored by the Hendrix chapter of
Project Pericles.
More information on the 2014 Clinton Global Initiative
University is available here.
Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in
engaged liberal arts and sciences education. For the sixth consecutive year,
Hendrix was named one of the country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
as well as the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, and
the 2014 Fiske Guide to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United
Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu.