MPA enrollments remain strong. Forty eight students are enrolled in PADM classes (some in multiple classes).
22 in PADM 624 Human Resource Management,
18 in PADM 618 Law for Managers,
10 in PADM 628 Public Financial Management,
10 in PADM 688 Program Evaluation and
6 in PADM 690 the Capstone
The different enrollment numbers are (I assume) because PADM 688 and PADM 628 require prerequisites.
Students are enrolled from Juneau, Sitka, Ketchikan, Anchorage, Fairbanks (including Ft. Wainwright and Eielson AFB), Kodiak, Dillingham, Kenai, Whitehorse, Carcross, Wasilla, Pelican, Homer, and England (Kudos to Laura). Did I miss anybody???
It is important that I get an idea who is planning to take summer electives and what electives they plan to take. PLEASE send me an email letting me know your preferences and plans. Lack of interest in one or another class may result in their cancellation. Here are the options.
PADM 635 Natural Resource Policy taught by Jim Powell
This course examines natural resource and environmental policymaking using a sustainability framework. An interdisciplinary approach will be used to discuss the basic frameworks and principles of sustainability as applied to natural resource issues. The objective is to provide students with the skills necessary to critically analyze policymaking alternatives related to issues of natural resources and environmental protection. Emphasis will be placed on practical decision making across scales and levels of government using selected readings and case studies.
PADM 671 Non Profit Management taught by Kathy DiLorenzo
This course in nonprofit management provides students a strategic and comprehensive approach to management in the non-governmental sector. Areas addressed include human resource management, proposal writing and grant administration, fund development, leadership and board development, strategic management, law, and program development.
PADM 675 Leadership Communications taught by Jonathan Anderson
This class focuses on the crucial skills of communication. It involves an intensive face to face segment in Juneau focusing on oral communication, particularly public speaking, and a web based segment focused on developing good writing skills.
PADM 125 Economics for Public Managers taught by Tim Ewest
This course examines the foundations of micro and macro economics as they apply to Public Managers. It introduces and applies economic concepts and languages. It introduces supply and demand and the rational decision making of firms, as well as macro economics concepts such as monopolies and externalities. This course satisfies the micro and macro economic prerequisite requirement for the Master of Public Administration
Canadian Public Policy is Canada's foremost journal examining economic and social policy. The aim of the journal is to stimulate research and discussion of public policy problems in Canada. It is directed at a wide readership including decision makers and advisers in business organizations and governments, and policy researchers in private institutions and universities. See http://economics.ca/cpp/en/index.php
[Important Note: The UAS Egan library online full text data bases contain 191 publications about Canada, including such prominent titles as Plastics in Canada, Monkeyshines on Canada, Beer Industry Profile: Canada, and Canada Life Financial SWOT Analysis]
Many library online publications have a built in translator. If the publication has the option, select the HTML or Full Text view (not pdf). At the top of the screen EBSCO offers translation to French, Spanish, Portuguese and German. In addition to those languages PROQUEST adds Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Korean, Russian and Turkish!!
Libby Watanabe (2005)
Libby is Chief Dietician for Mt. Edgecombe Hospital and Grand 1st Vice President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood. She is also a member of the Sitka Tribe’s Kayaani Commission which is a group concerned with preserving and protecting plants and the traditional ways they are used. See http://www.sitkatribe.org/kayaani/Â Check out the link to the NPR story on Devil’s Club, and listen to the story in which Libby was interviewed.
Frank Deleon (2001)
After serving as military Attaché to Mexico, Frank retired from the Coast Guard but has been invited to be an instructor at instructor at the Joint Military Attaché School in Washington DC and now lives just across the Potomac from George Washington’s Mt. Vernon home.
Lola Savatgy (2003)
Lola moved coast to coast from Washington DC to California where she will take up a Program Manager position with the Army after running a marathon in Arizona last Sunday! You go, girl!
Current student Kirsten Vesel,
Congratulations to Kirsten Vesel of Seward who gave birth to Kaelan Vesel in mid December. I can’t imagine why she plans to take this semester off!
The Public Administration program is located in the Department of Business and Public Administration, which is located in the School of Management at the University of Alaska Southeast. So the MPA website url now includes “som” http://www.uas.alaska.edu/som/mpa. Organizational Structure trumps all!
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