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| Message from the Chair | ||
We usually highlight one alum or student for our "In the Spotlight" mention. This time, we want to start recognizing all of our alums for mention "In the Spotlight." We recently surveyed our alums, and received responses from more than 250 alums, including 35 who live and work outside of New York state. Since we have well over a thousand alums, we don't know whether these alums are reflective of all of our alums. But, there are some interesting findings about those who did respond. Just over a third of those who responded work in government: city (3 percent), county (16 percent), town (2 percent), state (11 percent), and federal (3 percent). Another 21 percent work in health care, and 17 percent work in nonprofit organizations. What was not expected was the percentage (14 percent) who work in higher education institutions. An additional 3 percent work in K-12 educational settings. Two percent work in the private sector. It is quite clear that the MPA degree is of value to people in a variety of occupations. Individuals do change careers, and we believe that the MPA degree is instrumental to a variety of managerial and leadership career paths. In coming editions of PA Notes, we will highlight some of the many ways our alums are working to serve their communities. Please send us your info! Jim Fatula |
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| MPA Alumni Updates | ||
Thank you to all who responded to our request for information last fall! Click here to read about our MPA alum In the Spotlight. We want to hear how you are doing! Send us your news, awards, achievements or promotions for our next issue! Click here to submit your information online: MPA Update Form. |
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| Faculty Activities | ||
Downey will be offering two fall 2007 courses that will fulfill the MPA program's computer course requirement. PAD/EPS 666 Computer Applications will be offered Thursday evenings (first meeting is September 6, 2007). This course is designed to bring you up to speed on the software used in MPA core courses. PAD 672 Internet for Managers will only have one meeting on Saturday, September 8, from 10 am to 4 pm in Dailey Hall on the Brockport campus. In this course students develop and publish a Web site. The MPA fall 2007 course schedule can be found here: http://www.brockport.edu/pubadmin/schedule.htm. Jim Fatula, chair and associate professor, has been appointed to the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration's (NASPAA) Data Task Force. The NASPAA Executive Council charged the Task Force with the responsibility to consider the data NASPAA would like to gather to help inform member schools and the public. The main objectives are to: 1) identify appropriate, relevant and verifiable measures of the educational quality and characteristics of public affairs programs for NASPAA to collect from member schools; and2) offer alternative mechanisms for NASPAA to employ to collect and make available the designated data. Fatula also authored the "Speaking Out" column, “Expanding Medicare Would Exacerbate System’s Ills,” Democrat and Chronicle, March 8, 2007, and served as guest expert for non-profit news reporter Kathy Driscoll’s "Managers at Work" column in the Rochester Business Journal, “What to Look for When Board Rejects New Thinking,” January 5, 2007. Gregory Saxton, associate professor, recently had an article accepted for publication in the journal Public Performance & Management Review titled “New Dimensions of Nonprofit Responsiveness: The Application and Promise of Internet-Based Technologies.” |
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| Pi Alpha Alpha is Growing! | ||
To date, more than 125 members have been inducted to the Department of Public Admi |
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| Department News | ||
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| Join our E-mail Listserves | ||
NEW! Now you can join either the MPA student listserve or the MPA Alum listserve . . .or both! Click here for instructions on how to subscribe: http://www.brockport.edu/pubadmin/listservinstruc.html
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