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Current Update.PPOL Update March 3, 2006:PPOL Students:
Here’s the latest Update for you all. I wanted to get this to you before Spring Break. There’s LOTS of good news to report, but PLEASE note and respond to Item #1 if it applies to you. This is very important.
I hope everyone has a good break. In this issue:
1--Summer PPOL Courses 2--Econometrics Update 3--Committees and Forms 4--Rules Reminder: Graduate Residency 5--Public Policy Faculty Interview with Students 6--GPSA Budget Success 7--Student News 8--Lucius Outlaw Ethics Presentation 9--New PPOL and MPA Faculty Member 10--Graduate Student Forum with Chancellor 11--Graduate School Professional Development Program 12--Georgetown Call for Policy Papers 13--One-Child Family Policy in China Presentation 14--Post-doc Positions 15--Jobs
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As you have probably heard, the PPOL program will be running the Qualitative Methods course and the Advanced Program Evaluation course, both of which are required for eligibility for qualifying exams. Registration is open for summer, but I need a count of those you that will or are planning to be in either of those classes. PLEASE send me a quick email to let me know if you are one of those that will be enrolling in ANY summer courses and which course(s) you will be enrolling in. I appreciate your help in this important exercise.
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Several of you have expressed an interest in having access to a course in econometrics. I have good news. Some of you may have heard that UNCC is launching a new Ph.D. in Business this fall. As part of their core curriculum, they will be offering this course (actually two courses). My initial talks with the College of Business have been positive and I think they will be willing to have PPOL students in their PHD courses. We are still working out the details, but it looks like we might be able to provide those of you interested in this course a PhD-level option as soon as this fall. More info to come as it becomes available.
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I wanted to remind everyone to keep a couple of things in mind regarding the use of committees as you move through the later stages of the program. The new comprehensive examination process requires students to establish a comps committee. The student chooses the chair (chosen with the approval of the director and from among the associate and full professors in PPOL). The chair and the student then select two additional graders from among the students professors he/she had for the specialty courses. Once the the readers are established, please notify the director. The director sits on the committee as an ex officio member.
The comps committee is different from the dissertation committee, though there may be overlap (which is actually encouraged). The dissertation committee has a chair (selected under the same rules as the comps chair). The student and the chair select another professor from among those familiar with the student work in the specialty. The director chooses the 3rd member of the committee from among the PPOL faculty (though with input from the chair and student). These are the basic members, though students can have additional readers if they like. At that point, we *must* submit a form to the Dean of the Graduate School listing the members. The Dean will appoint a 4th member of the committee from outside PPOL. He is willing to entertain recommendations on whom this 4th reader might be, so students and their committees can certainly let me know if there is someone in particular we should recommend for this position, as long as they are outside the PPOL participating departments.
If there are any additional questions about these two committee systems, please let me know. _____________________________________________________________________________
4--Rules Reminder: Graduate Residency
Another rule that might be getting lost is an important one. Once students have burned through all their dissertation credit hours, you MUST remain enrolled continuously at UNCC. To do this, you can enroll in the Graduate Residency course. This is a specially priced course (less than normal), but you must take this course.
Here's the important point to consider: students who are on Graduate Residency only for purposes of maintaining enrollment should be securing funding on their own or in partnership with a sponsoring professor by that point in their education. Please keep that in mind for those of you burning your dissertation credit requirements early.
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5--Public Policy Faculty Interview with Students
The Department of Criminal Justice is hiring a full professor in public policy. They will be bringing in a candidate on Monday, March 13th. We have set aside a time for the PPOL students to meet the candidate. This is another very important hire for PPOL and, of course, for the Dept. of Criminal Justice. We are going to be stressing our justice policy concentration in the years to come, and this position is critical to that effort. Please make time on Monday morning at 9:30 to stop by and meet the candidate. I will send a reminder with the exact place. Student input in these meetings is critical, so please participate if you are available.
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I wanted to share with all the PPOL students the good news from the Graduate and Professional Students Association. Steve Stempkowski, Barbara John, and Nick Swartz have been working on behalf of the PPOL student group to secure additional travel funding. All requests for this year's budget that were submitted were approved. Also, we are tripling the requested travel budget for next year and have a reasonably good chance with this as well due in no small part to the participation of our students organization representatives and their attention to details. All PPOL students are being served quite well by these efforts. Be sure to thank them and get involved yourselves!
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We have several pieces of good news about student happenings. You might have noticed a couple of our students looking a little more tired than usual. First, Jonathan Kozar and his wife had a baby on February 6th. Also, Gary Kunkle and his wife had a baby on February 9th. And in other personal celebrations, Jiang He is getting married today (Friday) in Athens, Georgia. That's a rather extreme way to celebrate Spring Break, but I certainly hope you all will join me in wishing them all congratulations on these exciting developments!
On the professional side of developments, Huiping Li and Dustin Read both presented papers at the recent South Carolina Political Science association. Stephen Stempkowski has had a poster accepted for presentation at the ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology and Outcomes Research). Yoshiko Takahashi co-authored a paper with Dr. Bruce Arringo (CJUS) that was accepted for publication in a leading criminal justice journal. In addition, Yoshiko was just hired by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office as a policy analyst. Congrats to all these students for the outstanding work that you all are accomplishing!
8--Lucius Outlaw Ethics Presentation
The next in the series of speakers hosted by The Applied Ethics Center, COAS and PPOL is Dr. Lucius Law who will be speaking at a luncheon in 210 Cone on Tuesday, March 14. Please RSVP with the Philosophy Dept if you are going. That runs from 11:45 t0 2:15. There is a public lecture that same day at 4:00pm. Lucius Outlaw, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Director of African American Studies Program, Vanderbilt University. The afternoon lecture is entitled: “Identity, Diversity, Multiculturalism and Beyond.”
9--New PPOL and MPA Faculty Member
We are very happy to announce that Robert Christensen has accepted an offer to join the political science faculty beginning in August, 2006. Rob is finishing his doctorate at Indiana University and he will complement the new MPA program quite nicely, as well as bring his training to the PPOL program, perhaps as soon as this fall. He is the second new MPA hire this year, after having secured Dr. Jim Douglas as the incoming MPA director, starting in July, 2006.
10--Graduate Student Forum with Chancellor
All graduate students are invited and encouraged to attend an open forum with the new university chancellor. This is your opportunity to have your voice heard on campus. He forum will take place in McKnight Auditorium in the Cone Center on Tuesday, March 28th, from 4:15-6:00pm. All graduate students are invited.
11--Graduate School Professional Development Program
The last two sessions of this year’s development program are coming up, back to back on Saturday, March 18th. From 9:30-11:30am, the session will be Tools for Today’s Job Search and Performance Success in the Workplace. After a lunch break, the second session will be from 1-3pm and will be Enhancing Your Communication: Presenting a Successful Conference Paper. You are invited to one or both, but you need to register through the Graduate School Homepage (https://www.uncc.edu/gradmiss/Secure/ProgReg/ProgOverview.asp). This is a free program for UNCC Graduate Students.
12--Georgetown Call for Policy Papers
Opportunity for publication--The Public Policy Institute at Georgetown University seeks contributions to its upcoming issue of the Georgetown Public Policy Review. The theme of the upcoming edition is, “Politics and Policy in American Cities.” The Georgetown Public Policy Review is seeking submissions of academic articles that explore issues in policy and politics currently facing local government municipalities. Of key interest for this issue are articles focusing on: * Federalism and Federal Preemption; * Environmental Policy; * Housing and Community Development; and * Youth, Education, and Families. The deadline for submission is March 15, 2006. For more details, let me know I will send you the full call for papers.
13--One-Child Family Policy in China Presentation
Jenny Person, an undergraduate senior International Studies major here at UNCC and also a member of the University Honors Program (UHP), is presenting her final thesis on China’s One Child Policy. This presentation will focus on the facts about the One Child Policy, including the history, goals, methods of implementation, and resulting consequences. The presentation also explains why and how the One Child Policy is relevant to UNC Charlotte students in perspective of global relations, governmental policy and society, and human rights. The presentation will be held in Denny 220 from 5 – 6pm on Wednesday, March 15th, last 20 minutes, followed by a question and answer session.
I have come across a couple of post-doc positions to further illustrate the types of post-doc opportunities you all should be looking out for as you get closer to graduation.
Yale University
- Postdoc/Predoc Associate, Program in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration http://www.h-net.org/jobs/display_job.php?jobID=30517
The Social Science Statistics Partnership and the
Department of Political Science at Penn State University are seeking
applications for the position of Postdoctoral Fellow in statistical methods.
In addition to conducting his or her own research, the Postdoctoral Fellow
would teach one course each semester, at least one of which will be a graduate
seminar in methods. In addition, the postdoc will be involved in the
activities of the Statistics Partnership, promoting interdisciplinary
activities such as colloquia and workshops in statistical methods. The mission
of the Social Science Statistics Partnership is to coordinate, energize, and
create opportunities in statistical methods across the social sciences. We are
looking for scholars with a strong technical background in statistical
methods, evidence of publication or likely publication, and a desire to take
advantage of the opportunities to pursue research in statistical methods.
Recent PhDs in political science with degree in hand by August
Research Position for Doctoral Candidates The Kettering Foundation seeks doctoral candidates to fill research-support positions at its headquarters in Dayton, OH. Appointment is for one year, starting August 15, with the possibility of renewal. We seek doctoral candidates from universities in the United States whose interests complement the foundation's interdisciplinary studies of the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. Applicants must be at the "all-but-dissertation" stage of their PhD program, including an accepted dissertation proposal. More information at http://www.kettering.org/adbnotes.html
Several jobs have come across my desk lately that are the kinds PPOL students would be very competitive for. These are purely illustrative…for now. Finish your program requirements, then we will help you GET one of these positions!
UNC-Charlotte’s Urban Institute is hiring for two positions currently: a Community Development Planner and a Director of Economic Research and Analysis. Both positions are detailed on their web site (http://www.ui.uncc.edu/).
The North Carolina Association of County Managers is currently looking to hire a Research Policy Analyst. Details of this position are available at (http://www.ncacc.org/researchpolicyanalyst.html).
The Partnership for Public Service is a dynamic nonpartisan nonprofit organization (mentioned as one of Washingtonian magazine’s “Best Places to Work”) that is leading the way in modernizing the federal government so it can better protect and promote the security, health and prosperity of all Americans. Through its unique combination of cutting-edge research, innovative legislative initiatives, campus-based outreach programs and pro bono consulting, the Partnership is at the center of the effort to attract, retain and empower America’s best workers so that our government has the talent it needs to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In the four years since it was founded the Partnership’s innovative series of high-visibility research reports, original surveys, and special projects (such as managing the annual “Best Places to Work in the Federal Government” rankings and building consensus around a comprehensive set of indicators of the health of the federal civil service that will eventually form a regularly-issued “State of the Public Service” report) has helped it emerge as the premier source for information, analysis and thought leadership on the challenges facing the federal civil service. The research director is responsible for leading development of the Partnership’s overall research agenda and managing the execution of its various research projects and activities.
Senior Mathematical Statistician with the Government Accounting Office: This position is located in GAO's Applied Research and Methods (ARM) Team. Please visit our website at www.gao.gov for additional information on GAO and its teams. As a member of the statistics group, the incumbent works on multidisciplinary teams and provides assistance in statistical analysis, study design, and sampling. These teams work in a variety of subject matter areas including welfare, education, environmental issues, tax, justice, etc. Duties include taking a lead role in advising staff on statistical matters, designing samples, performing statistical analyses, and interpreting and presenting results. The position requires effective interpersonal skills, strong organizational abilities, ability to meet deadlines while working concurrently on multiple projects, and strong written and oral communications skills.
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