Accreditation Discussions Hit ‘The Road’ April 16: Join the Talks
Let your voice be heard about quality and teaching as part of the critically important NASPAA Standards 2009 Accreditation Revision process that is taking place between 2007 and October 2009.
The first draft of this exciting journey has been completed. Now it is your chance to comment, critique and offer suggestions for improvement! NASPAA is helping organize more than a dozen NASPAA Standards 2009 Focus Group discussions on April 16. (See list of host schools below) Deans, program directors, faculty and students are asked and invited to attend. There is no cost to participate. Your participation: priceless! To for more information and to participate in a regional NASPAA Standards 2009 Focus Group email Carmen Apaza at Apaza@naspaa.org. For further details please read Jeff Raffel’s ‘Chair’s Corner’ essay in this Public Enterprise. CITIES & HOSTS FOR APRIL 16  (except Boston, MA, April 17) NASPAA Standards 2009 Focus Group Gatherings  Location Host Time NEW YORK NY Baruch, CUNY 10-1pm WASHINGTON DC George Washington University 3-5pm BOSTON MA Northeastern University (APRIL 17) 11-1pm ROCHESTER MI Oakland University 12-2pm SAN FRANCISCO CA San Francisco State University 2-4pm COLUMBUS OH The Ohio State University 11-3:30pm CHICAGO IL The University of Illinois at Chicago 1-3pm ST. LOUIS MO University of Missouri, St. Louis 2-5pm DENTON TX University of North Texas 3-5pm LOS ANGELES CA University of Southern California 2-5pm AUSTIN TX University of Texas at Austin 10am-noon SEATTLE WA University of Washington 2-5pm ATLANTA GA Georgia State University 10am-noon DURHAM NC North Carolina Central University 11-2pm < back to top >

 

Are you the Next Editor of JPAE? The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) is soliciting proposals from institutions interested in hosting the Journal of Public Affairs Education (JPAE) for the three year period beginning Jan. 1, 2009.

Proposals are due May 8, 2008. The journal occupies a small but vital niche in public affairs scholarship focused on teaching, curriculum, and learning, as well as the enterprise of public affairs education—the challenge of running programs and schools of public affairs in this fast-changing environment. As the field of public affairs education internationalizes, experiences greater demands for accountability, and faces greater competition from other forms of professional education, JPAE provides the most important source of scholarship and research for teachers and practitioners engaged in preparing the next generation for professional public service. More details on the JPAE RFP. < back to top >

Mark Calendars to Attend NASPAA-APPAM Doctoral Workshop 2009 The next Doctoral Workshop in Public Affairs and Public Policy is scheduled for February 20 and 21, 2009 in Baltimore, MD. The University of Maryland-Baltimore County is hosting.
It is already shaping up to be an excellent ‘meeting of the minds’ and follows the successful Doctoral Workshop in Baton Rouge this past year. For more info on Doctoral efforts please see the new Doctoral Wiki Site: http://pa-ppdoctorate.wikispaces.com/  (scroll down to ‘PhD in Public Affairs’) New Article: Thinking about a Ph.D. in Pa/PP?   < back to top >

YouTube MPA/MPP Public Policy Challenge: The contest for MPA/MPP students returns!
Principal reps: Please watch your email as we need your help in forward the You Tube info to students.
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Annual Reports for Accredited Programs Due May 1, 2008 Each Spring, accredited programs not currently under review or in their self-study year are required to submit a report to COPRA with updates on major changes and initiatives. This year, the reports will be due May 1, 2008. Program directors will receive login and password information for the online form the first week of April. If you have any questions about the annual report, please contact the NASPAA office at copra@naspaa.org.  Click here to see list of schools owe annual reports. < back to top >

Due to strong importance of the Standards Revision 2009 project, and the response to last month's Chair’s Corner column we are re-running it. It is timely still as the April 16th ' On the Road’ talks are upcoming and there is still room for more people to participate. All faculty, administrators, deans, etc from either accredited schools or unaccredited schools are invited and welcomed to attend. Accreditation Discussions Hit ‘The Road’ On April 16, NASPAA members will have the opportunity to consider the draft new standards that have developed from the principles presented and discussed at the October 2007 NASPAA meetings in Seattle. I hope you will actively participate in this exciting “first-ever” event. Working in collaboration with the NASPAA Standards 2009 Steering Committee I chair, the NASPAA Standards Committee has been working diligently (and quickly) on writing new standards for early April 2008 distribution and April 16 discussion. The two committees broke into five working subcommittees and developed the new standards, building upon the new principles, discussions at the last NASPAA conference and many previous meetings, standards used by comparable associations, the current standards, and guidance from the “editorial subcommittee.”  The draft proposed approaches accreditation in a somewhat different way from the current approach. First, as mentioned in previous columns and as per material on the NASPAA website, we have ensured that these standards are recognizable as standards for public service not just generic leadership and management programs; thus they include requirements in public service mission and values. Second, these standards build the measurement of program objectives and student competencies into the standards as an integral part of our program evaluation and they require programs to measure their students’ achievement of learning goals. Third, the proposed standards move some of the detailed requirements out of the standards and into the accompanying “required evidence.” For example, specifics about faculty, e.g. 5-faculty rule and 75% full-time faculty teaching the required curriculum, now are included as providing prima facia evidence of compliance with standards but do not comprise the standard themselves. NASPAA has been helped by many thoughtful people in this effort. Steve Maser’s willingness to lead on the standards development process deserves a loud (but virtual) round of applause from our members. NASPAA staff, Crystal Calarusse, and executive director, Laurel McFarland, have spent many hours gathering information for the committees, writing and critiquing, and providing helpful, practical comments about the proposed standards. Jim Fatula’s white paper on the 5-faculty rule, written in conjunction with the small programs section, presents the dilemmas and trade-offs of modifying this standard. Now we need to hear from our members! (THAT MEANS YOU!) As noted elsewhere in the newsletter, 10 focus groups will be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 throughout the nation to discuss the proposed standards. We will take the comments, improve the draft standards and accompanying material, and work our way through COPRA and the Executive Council before presenting a version of the new standards at the October 2008 meeting in Charleston. As those dedicated to preparing students for the public service, we espouse the values of civic engagement, transparency, and responsiveness. I hope you will join our colleagues who have devoted so much time and effort to this process to participate in the April 16 Standards Soirée. For more information on Accreditation Discussions Hit ‘The Road’, please contact Carmen Apaza at apaza@naspaa.org.

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Workshop for Doctoral Candidates at Rutgers University in June
	Workshop in June at Rutgers-Newark for current doctoral candidates from underrepresented communities and for students from underrepresented communities who are thinking about applying to doctoral programs.
http://www.diversityinacademia.org/files/Program%20flyer.pdf  http://www.diversityinacademia.org/  (Rutgers has extended the deadline for applying and reduced the registration fee from an earlier version of the flyer you may have received. FYI) For more info: Kyle Farmbry, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, School of Public Affairs and Administration Rutgers University - Newark e-mail: kfarmbry@rutgers.edu  Ph: 973-353-5093 ext. 24 < back to top >

The Nonprofit Academic Centers Council is now accepting applications for Faculty Fellowships

The Nonprofit Academic Centers Council is now accepting applications for the 2008 David Stevenson and William Diaz Faculty Fellowships. These Fellowships are awarded to faculty of color teaching and conducting research in the field of philanthropic and nonprofit sector studies. 2008 Fellowships must be completed between August 1, 2008 and July 31, 2009. The application deadline is March 31, 2008. Application information is available online through the following link: http://www.naccouncil.org/fellowships.asp  For additional information, contact the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council at (216) 368-0969 or via e-mail: amcclellan-nacc@case.edu.  < back to top >

NAFSA 2008 Annual Conference Registration Now Open!

Registration is now open for the NAFSA 60th Annual Conference & Expo, “Shaping the Future of International Education,” in Washington, D.C., USA, May 25-30.  Join us to learn and share bold ideas and best practices for our evolving field at the most exciting NAFSA conference ever! In celebration of 60 years of advancing international education, come to Washington, D.C., for inspiration from 55 informative pre-conference workshops, 200 concurrent educational sessions, 400 sponsors and exhibitors, and stimulating plenary speakers. Visionary Vicente Fox, former president of Mexico, is the opening plenary speaker; also addressing the conference will be renowned journalist Judy Woodruff, who will moderate a distinguished panel of experts on public diplomacy; Ishmael Beah, former child soldier of Sierra Leone; and best-selling author Amy Chua, who offers insights into global power, politics, and economics.  Register by April 18 for early-bird savings!  www.nafsa.org    < back to top >

State Department Franklin Fellows Program The U.S. Department of State’s Franklin Fellows Program brings seasoned professionals to Washington for a year to work on foreign policy issues of global importance.

Franklin Fellows will receive full security clearances in order to contribute fresh ideas and best practices in such areas as human rights; economic issues; the environment; counterterrorism; political-military affairs; and many others. The Franklin Fellows website (http://www.careers.state.gov/FF)  has additional details on the program and a list of some 75 positions available for Fellows. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. < back to top >

	New Local Government Fellowship Proves Popular The City Hall Fellows is now more than halfway through the Inaugural Class recruitment process, More than 400 people applied for the 20 Inaugural Class positions in Houston and San Francisco.
The overall caliber of the applications was extraordinarily impressive. Strong applications for both cities poured in from around the country. For example, we had applicants from most of the ivy league schools, many elite liberal arts institutions including Amherst, Smith, Pomona and Williams, several historically black colleges including Howard, Spelman, Morehouse, Hampton and Texas Southern University, and numerous schools in the prestigious University of California system, among many others. There were particularly large numbers of applicants from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Rice, schools in the California State University system and schools in the University of Houston system. Applicants had a wide variety of backgrounds and personal experiences and had studied everything from political science to sociology to East Asian studies to environmental studies to electrical engineering. After some very difficult decisions, just under 90 applicants were selected to interview as finalists for the 20 positions. The final selection of the Inaugural Class Fellows occurs in April. www.cityhallfellows.org  < back to top >