Student Scholar Spotlight – Jacob Clark
Jacob Clark is in the middle of a research project determining the impact of federal health reform in nonprofit primary care providers. He is doing this through two different means. He is currently forecasting the economic environment to determine demand and utilization of different health care services post-reform. He is also performing a case study on a nonprofit primary care provider in East Tennessee looking at their decisions through the implementation of reform. He plans to use those two things and a survey of many similar clinics in Tennessee to determine a broader effect federal health reform will have on mission-driven healthcare organizations.
Jacob has created and founded a new branch of the Student Government Association called the SGA Ambassadors. SGA Ambassadors will be the SGA’s official service organization, focusing on campus service projects. By the end of the year, SGA Ambassadors should be playing a significant role in aiding other student organizations, university functions, and individual students, as it will be meeting the needs of students at their request and designing and carrying out its own service projects.
Jacob and fellow College Scholar Brianna Rader are heading a project working with UTK administrators on designing and implementing a program for incoming students to significantly lower the incidences of sexual assault on campus and the surrounding student communities. This project is the beginning of a larger effort to dramatically reduce sexual assault that will develop over the year. They would like to extend their efforts beyond the university campus.