I hope everyone is having a great week!
I have a few important reminders and information to share below. You will find the following information below (please scroll down):
1) MPA Brown Bag reminder 2) MPA tailgate
3) Open Assistantship opportunity (NEED FILLED ASAP)
4) Graduate Community Dinner invitation/reminder 5) Paul Loeb visit (REMINDER)
6) Graduate Student Association
7) Public Administration and Policy job openings
Dr. Swartz
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1) MPA BROWN BAG
Please do not forget that our first MPA Brownbag of the year is tomorrow. All students and faculty are invited to attend but all first year students who are required to complete an internship are strongly encouraged to attend. Please see attached invitation.
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2) MPA TAILGATE
The MPA program will host our second annual MPA Tailgate!!!! The tailgate will occur on Saturday, September 21. This is the JMU vs. UNC Charlotte game. Some have asked who am I going to root for (many know I received my doctorate from UNC Charlotte). I guess you will need to come to the tailgate to see what colors I am wearing that day...
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3) OPEN ASSISTANTSHIP
I'm telling you---you all are good! The more and more people learn about the kind of student we have in our program the more and more they want you want you----this is a good thing! Dr. Maria Papdakis (Professor in ISAT) reached out to me this morning to see if I could send a student her way to serve as her graduate assistant for a grant funded project on energy policy and rebate programs. Please see the position description below. If you do contact Dr. Papadakis, please let me know.
Graduate research assistant needed to help with a major new research initiative modeling and analyzing energy policy and rebate programs. The scope of work involves background research on consumer appliance rebate programs, analyzing state energy programs, and helping to develop a database codebook. Good literature research skills are a necessity. Familiarity with types of statistical data (nominal, ordinal, interval) and descriptive statistics is highly desirable. Must be willing to learn SPSS statistical software. Familiarity with basic statistical packages (SPSS, SAS, or similar) also highly desirable. This position carries a stipend and tuition credit, and is available fall and spring semester. Please contact Dr. Maria Papadakis, ISAT Program for more information. Email: [email protected]; Office: 568-8142.
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4) GRADUATE COMMUNITY DINNER INVITATION/REMINDER The Graduate Community Dinner is just around the corner! Graduate students and faculty and their immediate family and significant others are invited for a celebration of our graduate community. Please join us at this fun event and
encourage your colleagues and students to attend! When:
Friday, September 20th 4:30 – 6:30 pm
Where:
Grand Ballroom, Festival Conference and Student Center For more information on the menu and to RSVP for the dinner visit: http://www.jmu.edu/grad/current_students/dinner.shtml
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Graduate Student Roundtable
12:30-‐1:45
Festival Center, Allegheny Room
Graduate students from Master’s in Public Administration, School of Strategic
Leadership Studies, and Master’s in Communication and Advocacy are invited to join Paul Loeb for a brown bag discussion about civil dialogues, civic engagement and ending polarization. SEVERAL HAVE ALREADY RSVP'D TO THE EVENT-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐-‐Please contact me ([email protected]) if you plan to attend.
Keynote Lecture: Soul of a Citizen
7-‐8:30pm
Memorial Hall Auditorium
Why do some people engage in social change while others become cynical and abstain? How can we revive the notion that we really do make a difference in the
world?...because we do!
Author and lecturer Paul Loeb has spent 30 years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment. Loeb’s award-‐winning books on civic
engagement, Soul of A Citizen, The Impossible Will Take a Little While and Generation at the Crossroads, have examined how citizens, and students in particular, can learn to take responsibility for our common future.
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6) GRADUATE STUDENT ASSOCIATION
The Graduate Student Association will have their opening meeting on Sunday, October 6 from 4:00 – 5:00 in Taylor 302. GSA meetings are open and all are welcome to attend and get involved in the organization.
To continue to have an active and representative GSA, the MPA program needs a GSA representative for this year. Representatives are asked to attend the monthly meeting (five meetings total) and participate in one of the GSA subcommittees. If you have any questions about the GSA and the opportunities and commitments involved, please invite them to contact Casey Musselman ([email protected]) or AJ Good ([email protected]). Please contact AJ (current MPA student) at [email protected] if you would like to serve as our GSA representative. The deadline to submit your name is September 20.
Meeting Schedule for 2013-‐14:
Sunday, October 6, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Taylor 302 Sunday, November 3, 4:00 –5:00 pm, Taylor 302 Sunday, February 2, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Taylor 302
Sunday, March 2, 4:00 – 5:00 pm, Festival Conference Room 4 Sunday, April 6, 4:00 — 5:00 pm, Taylor 302
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7) PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND POLICY JOB OPENINGS
My goal is to forward to you a list of open public administration and policy related open jobs every two weeks. The open jobs for this mailing are attached. You will see they are categorized into local government, federal government, and nonprofit positions.
Dr. Nicholas J Swartz
Master of Public Administration Program Director Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Administration School of Public and International Affairs
Department of Political Science James Madison University
540-568-5830 www.jmu.edu/mpa
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