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Current Update.PPOL Update February 18, 2006:PPOL Students: Here’s the latest on program and area happenings that you should know about. 2--Registration Schedule for Summer & Fall 7--NC State Treasurer Speaking 9--APPAM Paper Proposal Deadline Approaching 10--You Are Better Trained Than You Know 11--Regional Economics Position
For those of you that have not already heard, PPOL student Jonathan Kozar and his wife have a new baby that was born Tuesday, February 7th. According to the dad, mom and the baby are doing fine. But when I ran into Jonathan at Ritazza’s recently, he was definitely showing the glazed-eye look of a new parent adjusting to less sleep. Of course, this will work out great for Jonathan since it will give him more time to study since he won’t be sleeping as much. Be sure to congratulate him when you see him.
2--Registration Schedule for Summer & Fall You might have already received this, but since this is a departure from the university’s NOP, I wanted to repeat this here. Summer 2006 registration begins February 27 and fall advisement begins March 13. As always, let me stress again and encourage you all to contact your advisor to make sure you stay on track to advance to the qualifying exams, comps, dissertation, and graduation as quickly as possible. Summer, 2006 is the last term we will use the current system. To separate the summer from the fall processes, registration for Summer will begin Monday, February 27. Go to www.summer.uncc.edu and click on “Summer School” where you will find the class schedule and link to Registration. Contact the Summer Hotline at (704) 687-2099 for questions about Summer School. Here are the PPOL summer offerings, both of which are running the 10-week summer session from 5/22-8/10: PPOL 8622 W 3:00-5:50 Qualitative Analysis in Public Policy Leland PPOL 8630 R 3:00-5:50 Advanced Program Evaluation Manuel Fall 2006: Class Schedule Available & Advisement begins March 13. Registration by appointment starts April 5. The tentative fall schedule is attached to this email.
Some of you might know about the transition from the current university information system (called SIS) to the new system (called Banner). This transition has been phased in a little at a time and is about to hit the student registration process. As noted above, the summer registration will be conducted as usual, but the fall registration will be slightly later than normal and will be done on the new Banner system. The university will be doing everything possible to make this transition as seamless as possible, but if as we move through this transition you run into problems with your PPOL courses, please do not hesitate to contact me or Laura Morgan (lmorgan@uncc.edu) and we will help you. The university will be sending you additional information about the new registration system soon, so keep an eye out for that.
On Thursday, 2/23, PPOL will be hosting a brown bag lunch in place of the normal weekly student lunch. PPOL students Huiping Li and Dustin Read will each present their paper that will be delivered at the South Carolina Political Science Association meeting the following Saturday. PPOL students are encouraged to attend in order to provide useful feedback to Huiping and Dustin as they finalize their presentations. PPOL faculty will also be invited to attend. Students are welcome to bring a lunch and join us at noon in the political science conference room for this presentation.
Following the brown bag, the next MPA candidate (Dr. Maureen Brown) will be
making her research presentation in the same room at 1pm. PPOL students are
invited and encouraged to stay for that as well. Dr. Brown is an
accomplished professor at
The Special Collections Department of the Atkins Library announces the establishment of the Anita Stewart Brown Graduate Student Research Awards. The awards are for up to $500 and are intended primarily to pay for travel costs to do research at other libraries and archives and to attend professional conferences directly relevant to a student’s research. Priority will be given to full-time graduate students in the humanities and social sciences who have previously done work in the Special Collections Department and who need additional funding to pursue their research. The first two Brown awards will be granted this spring and may be used between May 1 and December 2006. A second cycle of awards will be announced in the fall for use during 2007. To apply, students should submit the following material to their graduate coordinators: a cover letter, a resume, a research proposal, and an estimated budget. This information should describe the current status of their projects, the extent to which they have explored collections relevant to their work in the Atkins Library Special Collections Department, and what sources they need to use at other repositories. These materials should be sent to David Swindell who will write a letter of support and forward the packet to the committee at the library. More than one student from each program can apply, so feel free to submit. Deadline is March 31. For further information, call Robin Brabham at 72369 or email him at rfbrabha@email.uncc.edu.
The
Center for Professional and Applied Ethics, in partnership with the PPOL
program, is hosting a luncheon/workshop on Tuesday, February 21st
from 12:00-2:30 in Cone 210. Joan E. Dubinsky, Esquire, Ethics Officer with
the International Monetary Fund in
7--NC State Treasurer Speaking
As part
of the Executive Leadership speaker series, UNCC and the Belk College of
Business will be hosting NC State Treasurer Richard Moore on campus next
week, on Wednesday, February 23rd. He will be speaking from
3:00-4:00 in the
On Friday, February 24th, from 10:00-2:00 in the COAS Dean’s Conference Room in Fretwell, Thomson/Wadsworth Publishers will be holding a book fair for political science, sociology, and anthropology. Feel free to check it out if you are around.
9--APPAM Paper Proposal Deadline Approaching Just a reminder about the upcoming deadline for proposals for the 2006 APPAM conference: Proposal forms for the 2006 Fall Research Conference are now online. With guidance from several committees, the APPAM office has reconfigured the electronic proposal forms and (hopefully) made them easier to use. You may access the forms through this page on the APPAM website: http://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/madison2006/call.asp. There are separate forms for panels, papers and roundtables/workshops. There also are detailed checklists to use for preparing proposals before submitting them online. All conference proposals must be submitted using these forms. The deadline for submitting a Fall Conference proposal is Friday, March 10, 11:59 pm E.T. APPAM expects a very high volume of submissions in the 36 hours prior to the deadline. Please submit your proposals as soon as possible. With generous funding from the Fannie Mae Foundation, APPAM again will be offering travel grants to the Fall Conference for doctoral students interested in housing/community development. Awards will be made on a first-come, first-served basis. More information is found on this page: http://www.appam.org/conferences/fall/madison2006/fmfgrants.asp. I strongly encourage all of you to consider going to this conference, and I encourage those of you planning on going and doing housing or community development work to apply for the additional funding.
10--You Are Better Trained Than You Know I sometimes hear (and often read) about students that are finishing up their degrees and feel unprepared for life outside the academy following graduation. In an interdisciplinary PhD program like PPOL with our more practitioner focus, I thought this article might be useful and help anyone feeling this way realize that they have more marketable skills than you might realize. I used this article in the seminar last fall, but I neglected to share it with the rest of you. The article is attached as a Word file.
11--Regional Economics Position Dr. Campbell has been kind enough to forward a couple more examples of jobs that would be good starters for PPOL graduates not going into academia.
The
first is a actually housed in an academic institution. The Community Policy
Analysis Center (CPAC) of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Division
of Applied Social Sciences,
If you would like additional details, let me know and I will send you the full job description.
In addition, Dr. Campbell has sent the link below that highlights several appropriate analysts positions with the Bureau of Economic Analysis in the Regional Economic Analysis Division: http://www.bea.gov/bea/beajobs.htm.
Dr.
David Swindell, Assoc. Professor & Director
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