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PPOL Update January 5, 2007PPOL Students:
Happy New Year and welcome back for another semester! News is already piling up so I decided to send out an Update before classes get underway. Here’s what’s in this edition of the Update:
2. APSA Chapter Meeting January 11th 4. Summer Internships with the State 5. Graduation Application Date Changes 7. Dissertation Proposal Fellowship 9. Research Opportunity for Doctoral Candidates
As we gear up for the start of classes on Monday, I know many of you have not registered yet. Please do this as soon as possible. If you need any help, let me know. Classes are closing and are being cancelled for low enrollments and I want to make sure we protect your needs. Also, for those of you that have completed all your regular completed coursework, do not forget that you are required to take a total of 18 credit hours of dissertation credit (PPOL 8801). You can enroll for any amount of these from 1 to 9 hours in any given semester. And if you have already completed these hours, you *must* remain enrolled at the university by taking the special 1-hour Graduate Residency course (PPOL 9999). Students must remain enrolled through the semester in which they graduate. 2. APSA Chapter Meeting January 11th
The Central Piedmont Chapter of the American Society of Public Administration is pleased to have as its January 11th speaker Mr. Robert Ward from the public defender’s office. This is new for the chapter in that we have not had guests speak with us from the judicial side of public administration. Mr. Ward will be discussing the public defender’s role in the criminal justice system, the role of the Drug Court in county government (please see attachment for more information about the Drug Court), as well as recent reforms implemented in the Drug Court. His bio is below. LOCATION: Our meeting will be held at our regular meeting place, Charlotte Fire Department's Administrative Division located at 228 East 9th Street in uptown Charlotte. TIME: 11:45am-1:00pm LUNCH WILL BE PROVIDED SO PLEASE RSVP TO ME (Nick Swartz njswartz@uncc.edu) NO LATER THAN NOON ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 9th. Lunch is free for ASPA members and $5.00 for guests. Hope to see you next week! Nicholas Swartz, Central Piedmont ASPA Chapter Secretary-Treasurer Biographical Information for Bob Ward: Robert L. Ward is an attorney with a degree in History from the University of Michigan in 1979, and a J.D. from the University of Tulsa College of Law in 1982. He was in the private practice of law in North Carolina from 1982 until 1986. In 1986 he joined the Public Defender’s Office in Charlotte. He has experience in civil and criminal trial and appellate advocacy and currently works in and manages the defense attorney component of the S.T.E.P drug treatment court (criminal division) in Charlotte. He has worked continuously on criminal justice management and policy issues since 1987 at the local, state and national level. He helped to create the Charlotte S.T.E.P. Drug Treatment Court and the North Carolina Drug Treatment Court Program, and served on the North Carolina State Advisory Committee on Drug Treatment Courts from 1995 to 2005. From 1995 to 1998 he taught in the Criminal Justice Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and has worked as a speaker/facilitator since 1995 for The National Drug Court Institute, the National Association of Drug Court Professionals, The U.S. Department of Justice and American University. He is married and has three children. He is a member of StoneBridge Presbyterian Church, the Coalition for a Drug-Free Charlotte and the Mecklenburg County Criminal Justice Partnership Board. He is a former member of North Carolina Justice Fellowship, a former AYSO (soccer) coach and is a charter member of the Kiwanis Club of Charlotte at University City.
As we enter the spring semester, I need to start thinking of where we are on our program budget. The biggest part of the budget goes to supporting student travel. If you are planning on attending and presenting at a conference or other travel need, please let me know as soon as possible so I can make sure PPOL can cover as many of your needs as possible. This includes support for the ICPSR statistical training courses some of you have talked about. 4. Summer Internships with the State
As you know, PPOL does not cover summer in terms of assistantships and tuition (unless your funding comes from “soft money” through a grant or contract with a professor). As such, some of you might be looking for useful activities for the summer. This program, while not intellectually challenging, would be a good opportunity to see the policy implementation apparatus in action. There is a great number of opportunities for work in agencies that deal with implementing or overseeing all the policy fields you all are learning about. Here’s the announcement: Looking for something beyond just a summer job? Get career-related experience, networking contacts, and a paid internship experience by interning with the North Carolina State Government Internship Program!! Opportunities are available across the state in criminal justice, English, international studies, management, marketing, social work, psychology, history, biology, chemistry, geology, anthropology, African-American Studies, and many more! Check out the project book for summer at http://www.doa.state.nc.us/yaio/documents/interns/SummerBk07.pdf. Application deadline is January 24, 2007. To apply, make an appointment with your career advisor for assistance by calling the University Career Center at 704.687.2231. If you are having difficulty scheduling a convenient appointment time, we offer drop-in hours MTF: 10am-2pm and WTh: 11:30am-3:30pm. Don’t miss this great opportunity? 5. Graduation Application Date Changes Please be aware that the deadlines to apply for graduation have been changed. The new deadline dates now coincide with the last day to drop/add a course for a semester. The May 2007 graduation deadline is Thursday, January 18, 2007. No graduation applications will be accepted after the deadline. In addition, please note that summer deadlines are as follows: · Summer Session I 2007 – May 22, 2007 · Summer Session II 2007 – July 6, 2007 The deadline for December 2007 is Wednesday, August 29, 2007. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the graduation clearance section of the registrar’s office at 704.687.6680 or 704.687.3780. Jut before the start of the break, Dustin Read successfully defended his comprehensive exam at the oral exam stage. Congrats to Dustin as he prepares a dissertation proposal to defend this winter. Also, we have a new student joining the program. Kimberly Seymour has just arrived from Dallas, Texas, after working for several years with the North Texas Council of Governments on transportation issues. She will be working in the policy areas of domestic abuse and children’s rights, blending aspects of social, health, and justice policy. 7. Dissertation Proposal Fellowship
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) Program at the Social Science Research Council The Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (DPDF) is a strategic fellowship program designed to help graduate students in the humanities and social sciences formulate doctoral dissertation proposals that are intellectually pointed, amenable to completion in a reasonable time frame, and competitive in fellowship competitions. The DPDF program is designed to intervene at a critical moment in the career development of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences by aiding their transition from students to researchers. This is the moment, when, having chosen a research topic, they must design and write their dissertation proposals. The program is organized around distinct “research fields,” subdisciplinary and interdisciplinary domains with common intellectual questions and styles of research. Each year, an SSRC faculty committee selects five fields proposed by pairs of research directors who are tenured professors at different U.S. universities. Research directors receive a stipend of $7500. Graduate students in the early phase of their research, generally 2nd and 3rd years, apply to one of five research fields led by the two directors; each group is made up of ten to twelve graduate students. Graduate student fellows participate in two workshops, one in the late spring that helps prepare them to undertake predissertation research on their topics; and one in the early fall, designed to help them synthesize their summer research and to draft proposals for dissertation funding. DPDF Fellows are eligible to apply for up to $5000 from SSRC to support predissertation research during the summer. The program is administered by the Social Science Research Council and funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The online application for students will be available on January 15, 2007. Student applications are due March 1, 2007. http://programs.ssrc.org/dpdf/
Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship Competition Announced Please help us inform our graduate students about the Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship. This fellowship program was established by friends and colleagues of Dr. Baker to recognize and continue her extraordinary vision of interdisciplinary research and the application of information technology to problem solving in the public sector. Each year during the spring semester, the Graduate School, in conjunction with the Joanna R. Baker Foundation, awards $2,000 to a graduate student who has a commitment to a career that will apply information technology to problem solving in the public sector (e.g., criminal justice, health care, government). Any new or continuing master’s or doctoral student who has a career interest as described above may apply for this fellowship award. Application materials must include the following items: · A copy of the student’s current resume. · A copy of the student’s transcript. · 2-3 letters of recommendation that address the applicant’s academic ability and the applicant’s career potential to apply information technology to address problems in the public sector. At least one letter must be from a UNC Charlotte faculty member. · Personal statement written by the student that demonstrates how the student’s academic training, work experience, and career goals address the intent of the Joanna R. Baker Memorial Graduate Fellowship, which is to recognize a student with a demonstrated commitment of applying information technology to rectify and resolve problems encountered in the public sector. All materials should be sent to: The Joanna R. Baker Graduate Fellowship Selection Committee, The Graduate School, 210 Cato Hall, no later than 5 pm February 2, 2007. Please direct all questions to Tom Reynolds, Dean of the Graduate School at X3372 or tlreynol@email.uncc.edu. 9. Research Opportunity for Doctoral Candidates
Kettering Foundation
The Kettering Foundation offers one-year research positions at its Dayton, Ohio, offices to doctoral candidates. Associates participate in a variety of foundation research and programs. Responsibilities include research support for, and participation in staff meetings and various research workshops. Associates also review relevant literature in support of selected foundation projects during their tenure. Research Associates receive excellent fulltime compensation and benefits including medical insurance. The foundation also provides office space, use of a computer, access to the Internet and the foundation's network, and other research resources. Associates are also reimbursed for ordinary costs associated with a temporary relocation to Dayton, Ohio.
More information is available at: http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/98282?id=98282&if=alert Position Description for Postdoctoral Program in Race, Gender and Public Policy Research Associate
Requisition number: 140454 Job description: The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs has an opening for a Postdoctoral Program in Race, Gender and Public Policy Research Associate. This is a 100% time, A term (12 month), Professional Non-Faculty position. Working hours are to be arranged, Monday thru Friday. Salary/Benefits: An annual stipend of $50,000 plus fringe benefits is provided. The program on Race, Gender and Public Policy explores new frontiers of knowledge in the intersection of race, gender and public policy. It promotes scholarship on race and public policy and gender and public policy that would benefit from cross-disciplinary discussion and would contribute to the development of new ideas and tools for both policy arenas, as well as helping develop a synthetic understanding of the intersection of race and gender. The program encourages scholars interested in issues of race, gender and public policy to bring their discipline-related knowledge to a common discussion of race, gender and public policy. The program explores all areas of race and gender, but preference is for applicants with particular focus on the peoples of the African Diaspora such as those of African descent in Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean, as well as indigenous women such as American Indians, the Aborigines of Australia, the Maori of New Zealand, the Samii of Scandinavia, Hmong in the Diaspora, and the Ainu of Japan. Other intersections of race and gender in Latin America and Asia are also of considerable interest. Employment responsibilities: In addition to writing and research in the area of race and gender, candidates will be expected to teach one graduate seminar in their area of specialty focusing on race, gender and public policy and/or a masters-level course on social policy; consult widely with race, gender and policy researchers around the University and participate in a poly-seminar on public policy, race and gender. Essential qualifications: Ph.D. must have been received within the last six years or defended no later than fellowship start date. Preferred qualifications: Applicants should be broadly trained in the social or behavioral sciences or allied fields and must have a demonstrated commitment to investigating the relationship between their disciplines and race, gender, and public policy. Application Process Submit cover letter, resume, three letters of support from graduate advisors, graduate school transcript, a one page description of course you propose to teach, and a writing sample: either a chapter from your dissertation, or a published article. Apply online at employment.umn.edu. For more information, please contact Lawrencina Mason Oramalu at loramalu@umn.edu or 612-626-8734. Deadlines December 1, 2006 for January 15, 2007 start date March 30, 2007 for September 1, 2007 start date The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, martial status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.
Federal Reserve Bank
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Texas Tech University
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http://www.h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=32761
Monterey Institute of International Studies Public Administration Professor Graduate School of International Policy Studies Monterey, CA Date Posted: Nov. 11th, 2006
http://socialsciences.AcademicKeys.com/redirect.php?8535-SS99061212
Monterey Institute of International Studies International Environmental Policy Professor Graduate School of International Policy Studies Monterey Institute of International Studies Monterey, CA Date Posted: Oct. 23rd, 2006
http://socialsciences.AcademicKeys.com/redirect.php?8149-SS99061212
University of Southern California Tenure-track Faculty School of Policy, Planning and Development University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA Date Posted: Aug. 22nd, 2006
http://socialsciences.AcademicKeys.com/redirect.php?7303-SS99061212
Duke University Assistant, Associate or Full Rank Tenured or Tenure Track Position in Public Policy Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Duke University Durham, NC Date Posted: Aug. 8th, 2006
http://socialsciences.AcademicKeys.com/redirect.php?7198-SS99061212
Dr. David
Swindell, Assoc. Professor & Director
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