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Current Update.PPOL Update December 7, 2006PPOL Students: Here is the last PPOL Update of 2006. In this issue: 11. Professional Development Article 14. Postdoc/Mini-grant Competition
As we wrap up another semester and the program continues to develop, I wanted to make sure I took a moment to express to you all how pleased I remain with the overall direction of the program and the progress we are making on constant improvements (while striving for those Pareto optimal solutions!). Once finals wrap up, I hope everyone has a restful break and a very happy holiday season! For those gearing up for the qualifying exams, I wish you the best of luck as you prepare for those.
Related to the end of term wishes is the necessary and needed end of term social gathering. All PPOL students are invited. The faculty have been invited as well. I hope all of you are able to join us tomorrow (Friday), Dec. 8th from 5:00-7:00pm at the Carolina Wings and Rib House located just across the campus at 8650 University City Blvd. We have a room reserved for us. And significant others are certainly welcome to come as well. If you have questions, please contact Andy Baxter (abaxter1.uncc.edu).
For those of you interested in possible employment with the US State Department (they hire lots of analysts), there will be a video conference with a State Department representative on December 12th. The conference will be held in the Atkins Library, Room 143 at 12:30, and will last one hour. If you will be attending, please email Jim Douglas and let him know (jwdougla@uncc.edu).
The last Geography and Earth Sciences guest speaker of the semester will be with us this Friday, December 8. Dr. Mark Horner will give a talk on "Spatial Modeling for Disaster Relief Service Provision". Dr. Horner is an assistant professor in the Dept. of Geography at Florida State University. The talk will start at 1 pm in McEniry 134. Snacks and refreshments will be served. PPOL students are especially encouraged to attend.
The final monthly brown bag speaker in sociology for the fall semester will be Katherine Metzo who will be making her presentation in the Sociology conference room in Fretwell Friday (December 15th) from 12:30-1:30. PPOL students are invited to participate.
The 2007 North Carolina Political Science Association meeting will be held on March 23, 2007, at Methodist College in Fayetteville NC. The paper proposal submission deadline has not been announced, but this is a good opportunity for more junior students to get into the conference and presentation habit. I will be unable to attend this one as I have a previous engagement, but this is still a good one for students to attend and is inexpensive (and the program will cover your registration fees). I will send additional details as they become available. But polishing papers from this fall or last spring’s classes would be a good start.
Last year, I took a couple of PPOL students to the South Carolina Political Science Association meeting down in Beaufort, SC. This year, the meeting is much closer in Clinton, SC on Saturday, February 24th. I would like to do this again for interested PPOL students who would like the opportunity to present at a conference that is a friendly environment and not a formal as something like APPAM. It is an opportunity to practice your presentation skills, to get a presentation on your vita, and to meet others that are interested in similar policy and political issues (networking). If you would like to participate, the PPOL program will cover your registration fee. We will drive down together and only be gone for the one day of the conference (it is just under two hours away). If you are interested in pursuing this, let me know and I will send you more details, including the instructions and deadlines for submitting your paper proposals. The deadline for proposals is December 19th. If you have questions about this, please let me know.
Since I was talking about travel to conferences, please remember that the program tries to support student travel to conferences for presentations up to $400 per year. You need to apply for graduate student government support first, then we kick in additional (hopefully covering a large portion of your costs). This money is not unlimited but it is allocated on a first come first served basis. If you are planning on presenting at a conference later in the year, let me know now. And don’t forget that you MUST file a Travel Authorization form (Laura has these and can help).
There are a couple of items in the spring schedule I would like to draw your attention to, as they relate to conversations I have had with some of you over the last year. First, several of you have expressed interest in the GIS courses we offer through the Department of Geography. But you may not have any background at a level to prepare you for the Ph.D. level GIS courses. This spring, GEOG is offering the GIS for Non-Majors course. It is GEOG 5000-AO1, on Wednesday mornings at 8 AM. There are no pre-requisites.
Second, the
university is beginning to cancel classes that are not
sufficiently large in terms of enrollments. For instance, PPOL
8610 Urban Regional Environment has only two enrolled students
and is going to be cancelled if more do not enroll. If you have
not yet registered for your courses, please do so as soon as
possible in order to avoid cancelled classes.
For those of
you interest, below are the air times for the Medicine and
Society Shows that were taped this year.
11. Professional Development Article For those of you interested in the academic career track, here is an interesting article your should read from the Chronicle of Higher Education. This article, "The Pipeline to Publication" is available online at this address: http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=j5tX36nPzfyt8bghNGTZPQWVG3XcjGqr This article will be available to non-subscribers of The Chronicle for up to five days after it is e-mailed.
One of the reasons I am pleased with the program is the continued progress students in the program are demonstrating. I have already announced several significant milestones that several of our students have passed this semester. Since the last Update, Nicolas Swartz completed and passed the oral defense of his comprehensive examination. Another student is poised to defend too. Also, Olga Smirnova successfully defended her dissertation proposal last week. We are now seeing the later stages of the program get into what we envisioned as the normal load this semester and we expect it to increase a little more before leveling off as the program reaches its full maturity with incoming classes and regular graduates. Drs. Suzanne Leland (POLS) and Ken Godwin (POLS) received word that they won a grant from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation for work on school choice. Andy Baxter (PPOL) will be assisting in this research in the coming semester. In other news, several PPOL students and faculty have had NINE papers accepted for presentation at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Urban Affairs Association in Seattle, Washington. These include: Andy Baxter (PPOL), Dustin Read (PPOL), and Huili Hao (PPOL) -- Choosing Homes and Choosing Schools in Charlotte, NC: Lessons from School Choice Stephanie Potochnick (PPOL) -- Generational Effects: An Assessment of Mexican American Student Achievement Nicolas Swartz (PPOL) -- Does Consolidation Make A Difference? A Case Study of Richmond and Virginia Beach, VA Dustin Read (PPOL) -- Private Ownership of Public School Facilities: Transferring the Risk of Demographic Shifts and Functional Obsolescence Gary Rassel (POLS) -- Innovations in Funding Municipal Art and Culture Facilities Suzanne Leland (POLS) with Curtis Wood -- Improving the Efficiency of Service Delivery in Local Government: An Assessment of City-County Consolidation in Wyandott Suzanne Leland (POLS) with Kurt Thurmaier -- Promises Made, Promises Kept?: An Analysis of Ten Comparative Cases David Swindell (POLS) – Is There a Role in Service Delivery for Neighborhood-based Organizations? David Swindell POLS) with Mark Rosentraub -- Teaching Economic Development: Lessons from the Dallas Cowboys
Youth Purpose Research Grants: Small grants for dissertation and postdoctoral research will be awarded by the Stanford Center on Adolescence in March 2007 for research to be completed by September 2008. The Stanford Center on Adolescence aims to spread the recognition of youth purpose as an important area of scientific research by encouraging all inquiries that shed light on topics related to purpose among young people, such as adolescent motivation, personal meaning, or positive youth development, in an array of settings found in contemporary society. The Stanford Center on Adolescence operationally defines purpose as a stable and generalized intention to accomplish something that is meaningful to the self and that leads to productive engagement with some aspect of the world beyond the self. Through our own research, we seek to address questions about how purpose develops, the antecedents of purpose, the difference that purpose makes in the lives of young people, and how to best cultivate purpose in youth. We recognize that these topics, while important, do not address all the unresolved issues around youth purpose. There is still much to learn, and progress depends on having others in the field undertake, develop, and share studies of this topic through their own perspectives. The Stanford Center on Adolescence encourages researchers from all disciplines to submit proposals for projects that will contribute to the scientific study of this research topic. Applicants may request up to $10,000 in funding for research-related expenses. Applicants must be affiliated with an accredited college or university and should be U.S citizens or permanent residents. Postdoctoral applicants must have received their Ph.D. within the past five years. DEADLINES: The deadline for Dissertation Award applications is January 17, 2007. Award decisions will be made in mid-March and awardees should receive funds by mid April. ELIGIBILITY: 1. Applicants must be affiliated with an accredited college or university other than Stanford. 2. Applicants should be U.S. citizens or permanent residents. 3. Postdoctoral applicants must have received their Ph.D. within the past five years. Junior faculty that have earned their Ph.D. within the past 5 years are also eligible. More info: http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr/researchawards
14. Postdoc/Mini-grant Competition Sponsor: Upjohn (W.E.) Institute for Employment Research
SYNOPSIS: The sponsor will consider proposals for funds to conduct research and write papers on innovative research topics relative to employment issues. Funds up to $5,000 are available. Proposals should address employment-related issues.
Deadline(s): 04/11/2007 10/17/2007
Address: Institute Grants Committee 300 South Westnedge Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49007-4686 U.S.A. E-mail: webmaster@upjohninstitute.org
Program URL: http://www.upjohninst.org/grantann.html Tel: 616-343-5541 Fax: 616-343-3308
Appl Type(s): Young Investigator/Junior Faculty Postdoctoral
Funding Limit: $5,000 MAXIMUM Duration: 1 YEAR(s) Indirect Costs: No Cost Sharing: No Sponsor Type: Non-Profit Organizations
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this program is to provide flexibility to meet special funding needs that, without support, would prevent researchers from pursuing the project.
ELIGIBILITY Eligible applicants are untenured junior faculty withing six years of earning their Ph.D. degree. Special consideration will be given to those who use data from the sponsor's Employment Research Data Center.
FUNDING Funds up to $5,000 could be used as summer compensation or to acquire special data sets, meet unusual computer processing or programming needs, or to cover travel to collect primary data.
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION/PUBLIC POLICY EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY
The Department of Political Science at East Carolina University invites applications for a position at the associate or full professor level in the field of public administration/public policy beginning August 20, 2007. PhD or other appropriate terminal degree required. The specific areas of teaching and research within the broader field of public administration or public policy are open. The successful candidate will become the director of the Master of Public Administration Program housed in the Department of Political Science. The position requires an individual with experience teaching in and administering graduate programs and who has the ability to work in an interdisciplinary environment. Familiarity with distance education is desirable. Appointment at the associate professor level requires demonstrated research productivity, a record of successful external funding, and evidence of teaching effectiveness in fields relevant to public administration or public policy. Appointment at the full professor level requires a record of significant publications, major successful external funding, and evidence of teaching excellence. Appointment at the associate or full professor level can carry tenure upon employment. Salary will be commensurate with the experience and qualifications the candidate presents.
The MPA Program at East Carolina University is NASPAA accredited and enrolls approximately 75 students. The program has successful interdisciplinary working relationships with the University’s Master of Public Health Program, the Department of Criminal Justice, the Department of Health Services and Information Management, the Planning Program in the Department of Geography, the PhD Program in Coastal Resources Management, and other departments and colleges throughout the university. A PhD program in public policy is also in the Department of Political Science’s long-range plan.
The Department of Political Science offers both the BS and BA degrees and a minor in public administration at the undergraduate level. The department is also a major contributor to interdisciplinary graduate programs in International Studies, Security Studies, and Economic Development. The twenty-one person department emphasizes excellent teaching, quality research, and a tradition of service to the community, the university, and the discipline. More information about the department can be found at its home page: http://www.ecu.edu/polsci. The MPA Program’s home page is: http://www.ecu.edu/polsci/mpa. ECU is located in Greenville, NC, a city of some 68,000 located 85 miles east of Raleigh. ECU is the third largest and fastest-growing of the 16 UNC campuses, with a student population in excess of 23,000.
Applicants must complete a candidate profile and submit a letter of interest and curriculum vitae online at www.jobs.ecu.edu. Also, send graduate transcripts (official transcripts are required upon employment), and three letters of reference to: Carmine Scavo, Chair, Public Administration Search Committee, Department of Political Science, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858-4353. Screening begins February 15, 2007; position will remain open until filled.
ECU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action University that accommodates individuals with disabilities. Individuals requesting a disability accommodation should call the ECU Office of Disability Support Services at 252.737.1016 (Voice/TTY). Proper documentation of identity and employability are required at the time of employment.
Carmine Scavo Associate Professor Director, MPA Program Phone: 252.328.6130 FAX: 252.328.4134
Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy
Dr. David Swindell, Assoc. Professor & Director
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