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Current Update.PPOL Update August 23, 2006PPOL Students:
Well, the new semester is underway and the excited chaos has ensued. There is the traditional jockeying for classes while we are migrating student registration to a new computer system. Please be patient while we deal with the inevitable bugs in the system. Email or call me if you have problems this week. And please note that we need to have the course changes and enrollments nailed down as soon as possible.
Not surprisingly, there
is a
1—PPOL Social Reminder 2—Schedule Changes 3—Health Insurance News 4—Candidacy Deadline Changes 5—ASPA Membership Reminder 6—Conference Travel Planning 7—Urban Affairs Association Conference 8—Women in Politics Conference
9— 10—Ph.D. Graduate Lounge Update 11—Student News 12—Faculty News 13—Dissertation Grants 14—Graduate Assistantships Available 15—Health Policy Research Grant 16—William Morris fellowship 17—Sloan Grant 18—Jobs
1—PPOL Social Reminder
Just a reminder that the PPOL Student Social will be Friday, August 25 from 7pm until ? at my home. Please RSVP to PPOL student Nick Swartz (njswart@uncc.edu) if you have not already done so. He has all the details. He sent directions earlier, but if you need them sent again, please email him or me. Establishing a strong sense of camaraderie among the students in a PhD program is an important element in the long-term success of a student and is associated with the likelihood of completing the program. These socials are the best time to build that sense of community and I hope you all take advantage of this opportunity before the semester gets really going.
2—Schedule Changes
There are a couple of schedule changes of which you should be aware:
PPOL 8690 has been moved to 5090 Colvard.
PPOL 8672 is not being offered.
PPOL 8625 Advanced Seminar in Spatial Decisions is being offered (focused on the use of GIS to problem solving).
PPOL 8617 Still has seats available and will be useful for a student in any of the policy fields in the program. Contact Rob Christensen for details and the syllabus if you are interested in adding this course.
PPOL 8642 has been moved to 2pm on its normal day.
3—Health Insurance News
Did you know that UNC Charlotte is requiring students to have health insurance? If you have health insurance coverage either on your own, through your parents, or a spouse then you may submit your proof of insurance and waive the Student Health Insurance Plan. Just remember to submit your insurance waiver prior to the waiver deadline of September 1st. Details are available at http://www.healthsvcs.uncc.edu/student%20health%20insurance%20home.htm.
4—Candidacy Deadline Changes
Beginning with the Fall
2006 semester, the deadline for the receipt of “Application for Degree,”
“Application for Graduate Certificate,” “Application for Admission to
Candidacy” and “Application for Candidacy for Graduate Certificate” forms
will be the 8th instructional day of the semester.
Thus, the deadline date for graduate
students to turn in applications for degrees/certificates and candidacy
forms for the Fall 2006 term (i.e. for a December 2006 graduation) will be
August 30, 2006. The deadline for submission of applications for
degrees/certificates and candidacy forms for the Spring 2007 term (i.e. for
a May 2007 graduation) will be January 18, 2007. The changes that I have
just described provide graduate students a more reasonable deadline date
than was afforded under the previous system. Graduate students are now able
to wait until the semester in which they are to graduate before they are
required to submit degree and candidacy applications. (As in the past,
students may still turn these forms in to the
There is also one other
policy change related to the “Application for Degree” and “Application for
Graduate Certificate” that I would like to bring to your attention.
Beginning with the Fall 2006 semester, an “Application for Degree” and
“Application for Graduate Certificate” is valid for only one semester. If a
student does not graduate in the semester identified on the “Application for
Degree” or “Application for Graduate Certificate,” the student will have to
complete a new form and repay the application fee to be considered for
graduation in a subsequent semester. For example, if a student applies for
graduation in the Fall 2006 semester but does not graduate, he/she will need
to completer a new application for degree/certificate and pay the associated
fee by the required deadline to be considered for graduation in the Spring
2007 term. The submission of a new application each semester that the
student intends to graduate will make sure that all vital information
provided on the application and needed by the
5—ASPA Membership Reminder
The American Society of
Public Administration (ASPA) has begun its annual student membership
campaign. This is the premier national professional organization of public
administrators and includes a large number of public policy analysts as well
as academics. We have a very active local chapter that meets monthly to
discuss current issues, share job/career advice, and learn from current
practitioners “in the trenches” of delivering services or implementing
policy. The UNCC PPOL and MPA programs are very active in the organization
and we encourage students to join (at a very reduced cost). PPOL Student
Nick Swartz has the membership forms and additional details are available on
the ASPA web site at:
http://aspanet.org/scriptcontent/student.cfm. ASPA has a national
annual conference and a regional conference (SeCOPA) that many of our
members regularly attend. The regional conference will be in
The local ASPA chapter meets the second Thursday of each month. The September meeting will be on the 14th running from 11:45am until 1pm. This month’s meeting will focus on career development and will include both policy and administrator panelists. We will be serving lunch at this meeting (free to members, but usually a $5 fee for visitors). You are welcome to come to any of the meetings without joining, but I hope you will consider the value of getting involved.
6—Conference Travel Planning
Many of you would like to attend professional conferences, as this is a good and appropriate part of your training. The PPOL program has some limited funding available to help students that are presenting at conferences, with a focus on second and third year students (who should be most engaged in this activity). However, our funding is very limited and I try to make sure we have up to $400 to help these costs. In order to access these dollars, students must first apply for support from the Graduate and Professional Student Association here on campus. They often have money to support student professional travel and this can leverage greater support (making the PPOL dollars stretch further). Also, many of you are working with faculty members on joint research and they should also contribute to the costs of your travel. Often times, their grants will include travel allocations. They should be the first target for support.
If you *know* you will be presenting at a conference this year and have not already told me, please send me an email or drop by to let me know. PRIOR to travel, you MUST fill out a Travel Authorization form. Once you return from the trip, bring in your receipts and fill out a Travel Reimbursement form. Laura Morgan will help you with both of these forms. This is the university process for travel and is exactly the same process faculty follow (bureaucratic as it is).
If you have questions on this process, please let me or Laura know.
7—Urban Affairs Association Conference
Many of you are
interested in policy areas with ties to the general urban field. The
predominant academic association in this interdisciplinary area is the Urban
Affairs Association, which is home to the #1 urban journal: the Journal of
Urban Affairs. UNCC is a member of this association and you are encouraged
to get involved as well. All of the PPOL fields have potential ties to
“urban,” depending on your exact research agenda. So this is an
organization whose national conference is of potential value to any of you.
They are currently accepting paper proposals for the spring conference in
“We are pleased to
announce that proposals are now being accepted for the Urban Affairs
Association’s 37th Annual Meeting, which will be held April 25-28, 2007, in
Please note that the proposal submission process must be completed online. To submit a proposal and to view important information about the meeting, visit the UAA homepage (http://www.udel.edu/uaa/). Under UAA Conference Info, click “Submit a proposal.”
The proposal submission deadline is October 1, 2006.
Questions about the annual meeting may be directed to uaa-conf@udel.edu.”
8—Women in Politics Conference
Another conference that some of you might be interested:
Women and Political Leadership Research Conference April 2007
EnGENDERING Theories of Difference and Commonality: Women and Political Leadership in an Era of Identity Politics
Building on the success of the first annual Women and Political Leadership Research Conference in 2006 that addressed the relationship between gender and leadership in traditional political institutions, the 2007 conference will begin to address how differences and commonalities among women inform political leadership. This conference invites proposals that address the multiplicity of identity categories and experiences (e.g. race, religion, sexuality, geo-political location) that operate simultaneously with gender to inform political behaviors. Political science has established discrepancies in access to resources and locations of power along lines of difference; this conference will be a forum to discuss the methodologies and findings of research on the intersection of identity politics and gender, and further how the access to, and execution of political leadership is informed by gender and identity politics.
The scholarship will examine six broad areas of differences between women and the significance of those differences on women's access to and execution of positions of political leadership, including: (1) The politics of difference - what are the politically salient categories of difference and how do they relate to gender? What is the utility of intersectionality as a conceptual model for theorizing political leadership; (2) Cross-national comparisons (3) U.S. Regional (South, Northeast, Mid-West, Southwest, and West) and Locale (rural, ex-urban, suburban, and urban) comparisons; (4) race and ethnicity; (5) sexuality and sexual orientation and identity; and (6) ideology and religion.
We are calling for proposals in these six areas. Abstracts of 200-250 words should be emailed to wandp@american.edu <mailto:wandp@american.edu> by October 2, 2006. Conference participants will be selected by October 23, 2006. If you have any questions, please contact the Women & Politics Institute's Associate Director, Sarah E. Brewer, Ph.D. at sbrewer@american.edu <mailto:sbrewer@american.edu> or (202) 885-3103.
Dates: April 20-22, 2007 Call for Papers Deadline: October 2, 2006
Location: Website: <http://wandp.american.edu/wplconference>
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From the editor of this journal (a student-friendly journal):
The Georgetown Public Policy Review is currently accepting submissions of academic articles, commentaries and book reviews that explore the policies and politics of immigration, refugee and asylum matters, migration and population change.
I would like to welcome you, your colleagues and students to contribute papers that deal with the aforementioned issues. I have attached our Fall 2006 Call for Papers for your review. The deadline for submissions is October 10, 2006.
The Review, a student-run academic journal at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute, features policy research and commentary by innovative thinkers and writers. It is a unique forum for both new and established scholars, policy makers, activists and practitioners. I hope that you will share this publishing opportunity with others who may be interested.
All submissions should be sent to:
Georgetown Public Policy Institute 4th Floor
If you have questions about our journal or the submission process, please email me at gpprevw@georgetown.edu or call (215) 534-2301. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Sincerely, Joanna Mikulski Editor-in-Chief
10—Ph.D. Graduate Lounge Update
Some of you know that we won and lost some fights for space for the program this past year. We won the fight to stay in our current location (as opposed to the very small amount of space they were going to allocate to us in McEniry). But, we lost a couple of offices, one of which was to have been our PPOL student lounge.
The good news is that the two new interdisciplinary PhD programs (Organizational Science and Health Psychology) were also assigned to this building. The directors of those programs (both in the Dept of Psychology) and I convinced the dean’s office to allocate a joint graduate lounge for PhD students. We will share this lounge with the students in those other programs, but only with them. I was VERY pleased with this outcome as it will help us create the opportunity for students in all three programs to intermingle and engage in an even wider intellectual exchange. I expect we will be inviting them to come to some of our presentations and events, and I suspect you all will be invited to some of theirs. All three directors were quite satisfied with this development over the summer.
And now, for the cherry on top: We received word last week that the dean has allocated money for us to furnish the new PhD Student Lounge with new furniture (as opposed to the hand-me-downs we have in there now).
The room is now available (located down at the other end of the hall from the PPOL office suite in Colvard), so all of you have that space available as needed.
11—Student News
We have a couple of new items on student accomplishments over the past couple of weeks. Remember, please let me know when you get a journal article accepted/published, a conference paper presented, or a technical report sent out. Also, we want to share your accomplishments with other faculty and students for any awards you might receive, including fellowships and the like.
First, Stephen Stempkowski has a posted session being presented in the next couple of days entitled: Comparison of Hospital Readmission Rates in Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Stratified by Antidepressant Use - accepted at 22nd International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management, August 24-27, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
Second, Ashley Dunham (PPOL’s first graduate this month) won the university’s Distinguished Dissertation in the Social Science Award, which is awarded every other year to the best dissertation and includes a nice cash prize to accompany the value added to the vitae. We congratulate her on this accomplishment and are very proud to have our first graduate win this award and wish Ashley all the best as she begins her new position as a post-doc at UNC-Chapel Hill!
12—Faculty News
I also use this twice-monthly Update to herald some of the accomplishments of our PPOL faculty, who are an amazingly productive lot and are some of the leaders in moving UNC-Charlotte into the higher levels of being a research extensive university; a mission of which the PPOL program is a part.
Drs. Tyrel Moore (GEOG) and Gary Rassel (POLS), as well as Dr. Tom Reynolds (dean of the Graduate School) all are making their 25th year of service to UNC-Charlotte this month and have proven to be stalwart supporters of the PPOL program through its formative years.
Dr. Vivian Lord, chair of the Dept. of Criminal Justice, was promoted to full professor this year. Also, Dr. Teresa Sheid (SOCY) was also promoted to full professor. Congrats to both of these very deserving colleagues, both of whom continue their strong support of the PPOL program.
Drs. Suzanne Leland (POLS), Heather Smith (GEOG), and Michael Turner (CJUS) were all awarded tenure and promotion to associate professor this summer. We congratulate them on their professional accomplishments as well, and we welcome them into the ranks of those professors eligible to sit on PPOL dissertation committees!
UNC-Charlotte welcomed
several new faculty members to the university at last week’s convocation.
Some of these new folks have ties to the PPOL program, including Dr.
Jean-Claude Thill (GEOG) who joins us as the Knight Distinguished Professor
of Public Policy (some of you participated in that hiring process last
year). The department of political science is welcoming three new faculty
Rob Christensen who is teaching PPOL’s new Law and Management class this
term. Dr. Martha Kropf joins us from
Congrats to all those promoted and welcome to all our new colleagues! PPOL students should introduce themselves when they meet these folks.
13—Dissertation Grants NEW PROGRAM FOR DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMPLETION
* The ANDREW W. MELLON
FOUNDATION/ACLS DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIPS. These year-long
fellowships in support of Ph.D. dissertation completion in the humanistic
disciplines are the first part of the MELLON/ACLS
EARLY CAREER FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAM. These fellowships
carry a stipend and benefits up to a total of $33,000. Under this program,
ACLS will award 65 Fellowships to graduate students, who will be expected to
complete their dissertations within the period of their fellowship tenure or
shortly thereafter. For additional details, see: www.acls.org/ex-felcomp.htm
14—Graduate Assistantships Available
Positions Available:
Professor David T. Hartgen, Geography and Earth Sciences, has several on-going studies during the Fall and Spring Semesters, 2006-07, for which student research assistants are being hired. The studies are:
1. Economic Impacts of
Highway Investments in
2. Economic and Traffic
Impacts of Congestion in 3. Transportation Accessibility and Urban Economic Growth, US. 4. Innovation in Applications of Paving Materials.
The ideal candidates for these studies will have (most importantly) a serious work ethic, good Excel and other computer skills, some statistics background, some GIS background, and good writing and communication skills. Up to 3 individuals are expected to be hired. This is a professional working environment in which students will participate meaningfully in all aspects of major projects.
Graduate Students: $15/hr, 20 hrs week. Undergraduate Students, $13.50/hr, 10-20 hrs/week.
Interested students are encouraged to contact Prof. Hartgen immediately at dthartge@email.uncc.edu, with a short resume and cover memo.
15—Health Policy Research Grant
A program of the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation, the Scholars in Health Policy Research Program is
intended to help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health
policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science, and
sociology.
Additional info at: http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/19282?id=19282&if=alert
16—William Morris Fellowship
Since 1996, the William
Morris Society in the
Additional information at: http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/62011
17—Sloan Grant
The Business
Organizations program (formerly "Role of the Corporation") supports academic
research and scholarship aimed at painting a realistic picture of how
corporations and other business organizations function, with special
emphasis on how the people in them actually behave, how they are motivated,
and how they are rewarded. The foundation has sought to increase
understanding of these organizations because of the enormous effect they
have on the standard of living and quality of life for most people in the
Additional information at: http://fundingopps.cos.com/alerts/43360
18—Jobs
Each issue of the PPOL Update will include various jobs (practitioner and academic). This is the beginning of the hiring season for academics and I am getting pelted with lots of positions well-suited for PhD’s in policy. Here are some illustrations of those positions, plus a practitioner position at the end.
The
The Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst announces a faculty hiring initiative focusing o three key areas of contemporary political change: global forces; governance and institutions; and democracy, participation, and citizenship. We anticipate making multiple tenure‐system appointments at all ranks in each area over the next two to three years. This year, we are seeking to make five (5) appointments at the Assistant or Associate Professor level, each to start in September 2007. Candidates who demonstrate depth in one or more of the traditional fields of political science while having research and teachig interests that span those fields are especially attractive to us. We are particularly interested in scholars who engage important questions in the three areas by addressing the roles of ideas power, and non‐state actors; questions of justice and inequality; and/or the ways in which national and international institutions give shape and adapt to emerging political dynamics. The Department welcomes applications from all political scientists and scholars in related fields and is open to all methodolgical approaches. Successful candidates will be expected to teach core courses in the Department’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and should have the Ph.D. in hand by September 2007. We are particularly interested in hiring one or more scholars who can teach research design and quantitative methods at the gaduate level.
The
The FACULTY HIRING INITIATIVE includes the following emphases:
1. Global Forces. The Department seeks scholars who study the determinants and effects of globalizing forces, and are concerned with economic, religious, and demographic changes, social movements, and other globalizing forces that redefine national identity or redistribute political and economic power. Globalization may be viewed through the lenses of American or comparative politics, international relations, public policy, or political theory. The Department encourages applications from candidates eligible for appointment at the assistant or associate professor level. While all dimensions of globalization are of interest to us, we are particularly interested in candidates whose research and teaching involves any of three areas: the Pacific and East Asia; the relationship of globalization and authority (such as the use of expertise and authority in policymaking, the role of formal and informal institutions, or related themes); and the effects of political actors and economic power on political systems, and vice‐versa (including the relationship between international institutions such as the World Bank and U.N. system and state institutions, and nationalist and populist reactions to neoliberal policies). Substantive attention to the environment, immigration, science and technology, justice and equity issues, political economy (both as a subject and means of study), or human rights is desirable.
2. Governance and Institutions. The Department seeks scholars who study the origins or consequences of political institutions or processes. We are interested in all levels of analysis and organizational forms, whether governmental (municipal, states, regional, provincial, national, international) or nongovernmental. We seek scholars whose social scientific inquiry involves public policy and administration, the role of networks, information and communication technologies, the interplay of structure and action, institutional effectiveness, and American or comparative political development. Scholars from all political science and related fields are encouraged to apply. The Department is particularly interested in scholars eligible for appointment at the assistant or associate professor level whse work involves the Middle East, and in scholars studying public policy and administration, institutional capacity, inequality, the environment, demographic changes, science and technology, human rights and justice, race, or gender.
3. Democracy, Participation, and Citizenship. We seek scholars who study democratic institutions and practices, political participation, migration, citizenship, conflicts between political ideals and social inequalities, challenges represented by groups or whole societies infused by non‐democratic values, the viability of democratic institutions in the context of political and social change, and a reassessment of the social contract tradition. The Department encourages applications from all political scientists and scholars in related fields eligible for appointment atthe assistant or associate professor level who study democratic citizenship, comparative law or public policy, democratic theory, and/or non‐governmental organizations, and whose substantive focus involves inequality, race, gender, migration/immigration, the environment, science and technology, or human rights and justice.
The
Martin School of Public Policy and Administration at the University of
Kentucky
seeks to fill a faculty position beginning Fall 2007. We are particularly
interested in candidates with research and teaching interests in some
combination of health policy, public policy processes, and management. Rank
is open with preference for associate. The
Minority and female applicants are especially encouraged to apply. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled with review of applications beginning October 1, 2006. Interested applicants should send a curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, and a recent working paper or publication to:
Eugenia Toma, Chair, Faculty Search Committee 419 Patterson Office Tower
The
Tenure Track Position in Criminal Justice Administration at
The
Please submit (hard copies) of the curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching effectiveness, writing samples and three letters of reference to:
Dr. Jeffrey McIllwain Chair, Recruitment Committee
Tenure Track Position in Public Administration at
The
Please submit (hard copies) of your curriculum vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, writing samples and three letters of reference to:
Dr. Larry Herzog, Chair, Recruitment Committee
Position Description Director, Research Charlotte Chamber of Commerce
Report to: Vice President, Research
Interface with: Chamber Staff, Chamber Members, News Media, Consultants, Prospects, Chamber committees and general public as necessary.
General Position Description:
Compiles and analyzes
statistics on
Specific Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Develops, implements, compiles and analyzes survey results.
2. Assists in preparing statistical analysis (economic indicators, new and expanded business tracking).
3. Maintains inventory
and survey of the
4. Maintains statistical records as appropriate.
5. Prepares reports of county and regional information related to Economic Development as well as Member Services.
6. Confers with business community and prospects in both written and verbal forms.
7. Has the working knowledge of the following computer software: Excel, Microsoft Word and MapInfo/ArcInfo.
8. Coordinates and
develops the Chamber’s Economic Development
9. Assists Economic Development and other Chamber personnel on special projects.
10. Develops and
maintains
· Major Employers · Manufacturers · Foreign Owned Firms · Headquarters Firms
11. The
12. Performs such other duties as required by the Chamber.
Contact Tony Crumbley, Charlotte Chamber of Commerce (704) 378-1303 for application information.
Dr. David
Swindell, Assoc. Professor & Director
PPOL Students: This came in only moments after I sent the Update. Sorry for hitting you with another email so soon, but I didn’t want to wait two weeks before getting this to you. This opportunity is for the *university* to compete for money that we would use to fund your dissertation research. I will willing to throw in on this if any of you have an abiding interest in doing a dissertation on one of the topics they are willing to fund. Take a look and let me know:
>The
Census Bureau Dissertation Fellowship Program seeks to award a limited
number of contracts each year to PHD granting accredited institutions of
higher eaducation in the There are no deadlines. Application package and supporting documents can be submitted at anytime. For clarification and questions please contact Dr. Tommy Wright Chief Statisical Research Division US Census Bureau Phone 301-763-1702 email tommy.wright@census.gov
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