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JANUARY 2012
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NASPAA News & Notes
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Call for panels/papers for 2012
NASPAA Annual Conference
NASPAA’s 2012 Annual Conference will be held in
Austin, Texas, on October 18–20. It promises to be almost as big as the Lone Star state itself! The Conference Committee invites the NASPAA community to submit proposals for panels, research papers, roundtables, and workshops that address the conference theme of
“Horizons in Public Affairs: Visions, Innovations and
Strategies”. The theme will run through three conference tracks:
- Affirming the Place of Public Affairs & Administration
- Understanding Changing Markets and Engaging Stakeholders
- Dialogues on the Status of the Profession
The deadline for submitting proposals is April 1. Full information on how to submit a proposal is
posted here (opens 4-page
PDF).
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Host a
future NASPAA Annual Conference
NASPAA is currently
accepting bids to host our Annual Conference in 2014 and
2015.
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It’s a chance to make a great
contribution to NASPAA and the public affairs community,
“put your program on the map”, and showcase what’s going
on at your school and in your area! Collaborative
proposals from schools in the same location are
encouraged. More information, including criteria for
hosting, are
posted here (opens a 6-page
PDF). The deadline is
March 1.
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Foundation Data collection effort begins soon! |
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NASPAA regularly receives requests, from
both members and external stakeholders, for data on public affairs
education that simply do not exist. For example, just since
the last Public Enterprise, individuals from member schools
have asked for average associate professor salaries in the field,
faculty-student and staff-student ratios, and graduate employment
information.
However, when the initial NASPAA Data
Center's Foundation Data collection is complete, with your help,
we will be able to answer these types of questions!
The Foundation Data
will be a comprehensive database that
will be
the authoritative source of data on public affairs
education, including program characteristics, faculty size and
demographics, admissions and enrollment, student demographics, and
completion data. It
will replace
multiple previous surveys.
We anticipate that the data, and the following
online analysis and information distribution tools, will
be of significant use to members and will be heavily accessed by
prospective students. The collection effort has been approved
by NASPAA’s Data Committee and its APPAM counterpart
(programs that are members of both organizations will need to submit
only once – reducing reporting burden).
A small group of schools will pilot the collection in the next few
months, followed by a roll-out to all member schools. The ability to analyze and share this data will help
members with benchmarking and program improvement, and will help
present a better picture of our field to the public. We
hope that all member schools will put in a strong effort to collect
and submit data; the
usefulness and authoritativeness of the data will critically depend
on your program's participation.
More information will be coming soon!
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NASPAA strategic planning |
NASPAA's
Executive Council will be conducting a Strategic Planning
exercise at its Spring meeting in mid-March, to chart the
direction of the organization over the next three to five years.
The Council will shortly announce an opportunity for all NASPAA
members to provide comments using an interactive blog.
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2011 Career Professionals Conference
recap
The Harvard Kennedy School hosted the largest-ever NASPAA
Career Professionals Conference in mid-December, with almost
50 career directors attending. The two-day meeting was
filled with panels of experts, including alumni of several
NASPAA schools, from various fields, sessions on best practices,
and large-group discussions. Notes and presentations will
be distributed on the
career services listserv.
We extend our appreciation to the
entire conference planning committee, especially Mary Beaulieu
and Sheron Russell at the Kennedy School. The committee next
week will consider bids to host the 2012 conference, and will
announce the host school soon!
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Spread the word about "Public
Enterprise" and NASPAA listservs
NASPAA has
received feedback from many faculty and staff at member
schools that they would like to receive this newsletter
directly. Therefore, we ask principal
representatives to please forward this issue to all
of your associate deans, program directors, professional
staff, etc, so that they
can subscribe.
Additionally, the listservs for professional staff
(career services, admissions & marketing, and communications) are
outdated for many member schools. We ask you to please
remind your professional staff to sign up for the relevant list
if they are not already on it, or to
contact us if
they are not sure who is on the list. Listserv information is posted
on
NASPAA’s website.
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NASPAA and EAPAA
sign historic agreement
In November 2011, NASPAA signed a Memorandum of Understanding for Coordinated Accreditation
with the European Association for Public Administration Accreditation (EAPAA). Programs interested in applying for both accreditations may now do so under a coordinated process,
including a single site visit.
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EAPAA Secretary General Theo van der Krogt signing MOU |
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| Call for nominations for
practitioner site visitors |
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Many of the practitioner site visitors
currently participating in the NASPAA accreditation process are on the verge of retirement or have moved to new positions. COPRA is asking for your help in identifying practitioners that may be interested in participating in online training and becoming a NASPAA site visitor. COPRA especially needs additional state, federal, nonprofit, and international leaders in its pool. Nominated individuals should have
an MPA, or a related graduate degree, and at least seven years of mid-to-upper level experience in public service.
Please contact
Stacy
Drudy
with any suggestions.
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| Competencies
assessment |
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NASPAA is expanding the
Assessment portion of the Accreditation website to provide additional resources for programs as they begin to develop and assess their competencies. One aspect of this expansion will be a place where programs can share what they are doing. NASPAA will like for this to include how programs are operationally defining the universal competencies, what types of measurements they are using, and the development of a rubrics bank. If your program would like to share how it has begun to implement and address competencies-based assessment, please e-mail
Stacy Drudy.
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| Upcoming Site Visitor Training
sessions at COMPA and ASPA |
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NASPAA will be conducting two Site Visitor Training sessions in the next few weeks. Potential Site Visitors will be trained on how site visits will be conducted under the new standards. The training is open to academics as well as practitioners who have at least seven years of experience in a field related to public administration. Site Visitors who have not been trained under the NASPAA 2009 Standards will not be eligible to participate in a visit, so don’t miss out on your opportunity to continue or start being a part of the NASPAA peer review process!
There will be Training sessions at the National Conference of
Minority Public Administrators (COMPA) conference in McAllen, TX on Saturday February 25, and at the ASPA
conference in Las Vegas, on March 6, from 7:30-10:15am. If you plan on attending either session please contact
Stacy Drudy to register.
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Updating the list of accredited programs with online degrees or
degree components |
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NASPAA is currently updating its list of accredited schools that offer a fully online degree or components of a degree online. Prospective students frequently ask for this list, and we would like to provide accurate and up to date information. Please review the
online
listing and inform us if your school is missing from this list (or
if the link is incorrect). Please contact Monchaya
Wanna, and include the link that should be posted. Thank you!
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Opportunities &
Applications |
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NASPAA offering summer internship in communications & outreach
NASPAA is currently seeking a master's student interested in communications, outreach, and marketing for a
paid summer internship in our Washington office. Please spread the word among your students!
The position can be part-time or full-time, depending on the student's schedule. The selection process begins in a few weeks, but we'll accept applications until the position is filled. Recent MPA/MPP graduates who can commit to the full term are welcome to apply.
Additional NASPAA summer internship announcements will be forthcoming.
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Middle East Partnership Initiative competition
The US State
Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) has
announced a competition for applications that support civil society
organizations in the Middle East and North Africa.
MEPI seeks to fund
projects that will support civil society’s advocacy efforts across
the region, responding to citizens’ demands for change and reform
and for holding their governments accountable.
The
announcement is posted at
www.mepi.state.gov. Apply at www.grants.gov by searching for CFDA number 19.500.
Please contact Jessica Baker at
nea-grants@state.gov with any questions. The deadline is
February 16.
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School News & Updates |
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New Institute of Politics at the
University of Chicago
The
University of Chicago recently announced that it
will create an Institute of Politics "aimed at helping
students who wish to explore careers in public and social service,
and providing non-curricular opportunities for them to pursue
interests in politics and policymaking."
The Institute will support Harris School of Public
Policy Studies' internship program and its students' career
search.
The inaugural director will be David Axelrod, political
strategist and now-former White House advisor.
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NYU Wagner associate dean named Wake Forest provost
Wake Forest University has named Rogan Kersh, associate dean and professor of public policy at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, as its new provost.
Wake’s press release notes that Kersh has worked “to advance social justice and diversity issues at…NASPAA” and that he is a NAPA Fellow.
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HAVE NEWS? SOMETHING TO SHARE OR TELL OTHERS?
If you have news
about your school or program, or were featured in a recent
news story, we would be glad to share with the NASPAA
community in the next Public Enterprise.
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Please include a link to further information, along with
contact details if appropriate.
Send your news to:
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