Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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In this Issue:
- Upcoming Program Dates
- MPA Happenings
- Upcoming UNC & Beyond Announcements
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- PUBA 746 (Portfolio) Begins: Week of January 13
- NCCCMA Winter Conference: February 5-7, Winston-Salem, NC
- Carolina MPA Alumni Breakfast: February 6, Winston-Salem, NC
- Happy Hour Hub: February 6, Winston-Salem, NC
- Spring Portfolios Due: March 1
- Deil Wright Lecture: April 2 (tentative)
- MPA Spring Graduation Events: May 8-10
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Happy New Year!
Welcome to the first edition of the MPA Digest for the new decade. We especially welcome students starting classes for the first time this January. We hope you'll find many opportunities within the digest, which will be sent to you twice monthly.
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The MPA Program will pay for registration and admission to the Alumni Breakfast for any student interested in attending the North Carolina City/County Management Association's Winter Seminar, to be held in Winston-Salem, NC, February 5-7. This is a wonderful opportunity to learn more about local government from experts around North Carolina, as well as network with your fellow students and local government faculty. Please register by
Thursday, January 16 at this
link
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Upcoming Events Sponsored by the Carolina MPA Alumni Association ... You're Invited!
We hope everyone had a glorious holiday and fabulous new year's celebration. With the start of the new year, it is now time to mark your calendars with upcoming
Carolina MPA Events
!
Follow the links below to register!
Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020
Benton Convention Center
Winston-Salem, NC
7:00 - 8:30 AM
Held in conjunction with the 2020 North Carolina City and County Management Association Winter Seminar in Winston-Salem. You DON'T have to be attending the seminar to come to the breakfast - ALL Carolina MPA alumni and students are welcome! (Students should register through
this link
.)
Thursday, February 6, 2020
Tate's Craft Cocktails
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
5:00-7:30 PM
As we've done for the past few years, Carolina MPA will host a Happy Hour Hub Thursday evening of the NCCCMA Winter Seminar in downtown Winston Salem, only a couple blocks from the Benton Convention Center.
Thursday April 2, 2020
UNC School of Government
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
This year's Deil S. Wright Lecturer is Norma M. Riccucci, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor at Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. She will deliver a lecture entitled, TBD.
Thursday April 2, 2020
Tobacco Road
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
5:00-7:30 PM
Following the conclusion of the Deil S. Wright Lecture, join us down the hill for some lite bites, a beverage, and networking at the Tobacco Road Sports Cafe. Don't worry if you can't make the lecture, you're still welcome to join us!
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Faculty Publishings: Charles Szypszak
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MPA Faculty member
Charles A. Szypszak
has a new publication, his new publication.
Przegląd Prawniczy Universytetu im. Adama Mickiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review, Poland), "Legal Protection of Property Rights in the Self-Regulating United States Local Recording System," Vol. 9, pp. 79-92. Congratulations!
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Upcoming UNC and Beyond Announcements:
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- Apply for the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society
- Apply for the Order of the Golden Fleece
- Whose Culture has Capital? Let's Talk About Class in the Academy
- Carolina Center for Public Service Community Engagement Fellowships
- Upcoming Stone Center for Black Culture & History Events
- Advanced English Language Support for International Graduate Students
- LGBTQ Center After Dark
- Carolina Population Center Speaker Series
- Free Statistical/Data Science Consulting
- Save the Date: #NonprofitSTRONG Summit - May 1, 2020
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Dear Carolina Community,
The
Order of the Golden Fleece is pleased to request your nominations of undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduate students, staff, faculty and alumni to be tapped into the Order of the Golden Fleece. Founded on April 11, 1904, the Order of the Golden Fleece is the oldest and highest honorary society at UNC.
The Order selects members based upon significant, lasting contributions to the University as reflected in scholarship, motivation, creativity, loyalty, and leadership in academic and extracurricular pursuits.Seniors comprise the majority of the inductees, but juniors, graduate students, faculty, and alumni are also eligible for membership. Individuals are eligible for induction regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, ability, religion, or any other identity.
Sincerely,
Order of the Golden Fleece
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The Community Engagement Fellowship at the Carolina Center for Public Service awards a maximum of eight fellowships of up to $2,000 each year for engagement or engaged scholarship projects that are responsive to community priorities and have an academic connection. Returning, full-time graduate and professional students at Carolina are eligible to apply.
Potential applicants are invited to stop by the Carolina Center for Public Service (207 Wilson St., across from the Carolina Campus Community Garden) between 4 and 6 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 17 to meet and talk with staff and former fellows about their community-engaged research over coffee and refreshments.
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Come to the Stone Center on Tuesday, January 21st at 6pm as we celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through music and song. Our annual program He Was a Poem, He Was a Song features vocal, dance, and spoken word groups from the campus and community.
Join us for the opening of the Stone Center’s exhibition and tribute to the life and work of Phil Freelon, renowned architect, artist, humanist and philanthropist. This exhibition, entitled
Meditations on the Idea of Sacred Space: The Life and Enduring Work of Phil Freelon
, focuses on his professional life and accomplishments as this nation’s foremost designer of African American arts and cultural spaces. We will feature examples of his awardwinning designs along with interviews and intimate portraits of his life from his beginnings as a precocious and talented student in Philadelphia, to his crowning achievement as Chief Architect for the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
This exhibition is co-curated by former Freelon associate and publicist Lew Myers. The installation opens at 7:00pm, on January 28 and runs through April 24, 2020. A reception will follow the opening. This program is free and open to the public.
Each year, we invite authors and scholars to share their newest research on topics in African American and African Diaspora history and culture. All discussions will take place at 3:30pm on the 2nd floor Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC Student Stores and free and open to the public.
Joe W. Trotter, Jr. will deliver the 2020 Diaspora Lecture and discuss his latest publication
Workers on Arrival: Black Labor and the Making of America
. From the ongoing issues of poverty, health, housing and employment to the recent upsurge of lethal police-community relations, the Black working class stands at the center of perceptions of social and racial conflict today. Journalists and public policy analysts often discuss the Black poor as “consumers” rather than “producers,” as “takers” rather than “givers,” and as “liabilities” instead of “assets.” In
Workers on Arrival
, Trotter refutes these perceptions by charting the black working class’s vast contributions to the making of America.
Joe William Trotter, Jr., is Giant Eagle Professor of History and Social Justice and Founder and Director of the Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the author of Black Milwaukee and Coal, Class, and Color and past President of the Labor and Working Class History Association
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Advanced English Language Support for International Graduate Students
Disciplinary and interdisciplinary groups meet weekly to share drafts of course papers, thesis chapters, conference posters, funding proposals—anything that would benefit from readers’ feedback on both content and grammar. Groups are appropriate for students at any stage—first semester to graduation.
Schedules and locations are determined by participants’ availability.
Speaking Group welcomes US and international participants from the campus and the community. Groups meet for an hour every week to discuss topics of culture, university life, or language learning strategies and resources.
Fridays, 3:00 – 4:00 PM
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Begins Friday, January 17*
Location: Global Education Center Atrium (with three exceptions, noted on our site)
These free, non-credit offerings are designed to give international graduate students additional language support in both written and oral communication. Courses are targeted toward new students but are appropriate for anyone who would benefit from an extra layer of English language support in their academic interactions.
- Academic Writing for Graduate Students
This course provides an overview of the major rhetorical and stylistic features of academic writing at the graduate level. It focuses on important linguistic features and on common strategies for organizing information. Emphasis is placed on students developing familiarity with the writing style of their own academic disciplines.
Textbook required.
Section 1 (Six-week format): Wednesdays, January 15-February 19, 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Register
Section 2 (Three-week format): Tuesdays and Thursdays, February 11-29, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM (Registration opens Jan. 16)
Location: The Writing Center @ SASB North 0127
**Additional sections will be offered after spring break in various locations around campus. Please email Gigi Taylor if you’d like to host a section in your building.**
- Research Presentation Skills
This course will help non-native English speaking scholars prepare a presentation of their research for a conference, a class, or other presentation occasion. The course will focus on the language of effective presentations, with tips for engaging the audience, for keeping their attention, for managing questions and discussion periods, and general pronunciation feedback.
Section 1 (Three-week format): Tuesdays and Thursdays, January 14-30, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Register
Section 2 (Three-week format): Tuesdays and Thursdays, February 11-29, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Section 3 (Three-week format): Mondays and Wednesdays, March 30-April 15, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Location: The Writing Center @ SASB North 0127
Additional sections will be offered after spring break.
- U.S. English Pronunciation
This 11-week course will provide instruction on the phonetics of American English and will allow for ample practice time in pairs with English native speakers and in small groups. Lessons will focus on segmental units such as vowels and consonants as well as suprasegmental units including syllables, stress and pitch.
Textbook required.
Fridays, January 31 – April 24, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Register
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Come by the LGBTQ Center Wednesday evenings between 5:00pm and 8:00pm for a casual social featuring games, crafts, and movies. The Center will provide free snacks - feel free to bring board games, add to the snack selection, and to invite your LGBTIQA+ or affirming friends.
The theme is: Playstation!
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Diversity and Student Success
(DSS) in The Graduate School is a wonderful resource for our graduate scholars. Below you will find links to our individual initiatives that serve various diverse populations here at Carolina.
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Spring 2020 seminar series at the Carolina Population Center
The Carolina Population Center (CPC) hosts a weekly Friday lecture series on topics that enhance understanding of population-related changes. The
2019-2020 Interdisciplinary Research Seminars
will feature talks related to socio-economic status and health, learning machine learning, and behavioral economics, among others. All events will take place from 12pm – 1pm at Carolina Square Room 2002, 123 W. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill NC 27516. [
Map and directions
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Speakers for January and February include:
January 17:
Myron Cohen
, UNC, the transmission and prevention of STD pathogens including HIV and Zika
January 24:
Rachel Margolis
, University of Western Ontario, effects of gender equality-focused parental benefits on union stability
February 7:
Til Stürmer
, UNC, state-of-the-art methods for nonexperimental treatment comparisons
February 14:
Oscar Gonzalez
, UNC, on learning machine learning and misconceptions for its use in social science research
February 21:
Alison Buttenheim
, University of Pennsylvania, nudging and the potential for behavior economics to improve population health
February 28
:
Jessica Su
, UNC, social patterns of family formation and how they relate to health and well-being of parents and children
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Free Statistical / Data Science Consulting
The UNC Department of Statistics and Operations Research announces the availability of free statistical / data science consulting. Our goal is to teach this important skill to graduate students, but you can get some free data analytic assistance in the process.
The course format involves clients giving a presentation about the problem at hand. This generates a question and answer dialog, which by itself has proven to be useful in helping clients formulate their ideas. Then typically one student is assigned to work on the actual data, with a final written report expected.
In the past we have worked with a very wide range of clients, from Masters students needing help with the statistical end of their dissertation, all the way up to distinguished professors. While there are limits to what can be done in the context of this course, some contacts initially made through this course have led to ongoing joint research, grant proposals and published papers in very diverse fields.
To sign up for this type of consulting, or to discuss this further, please contact Steve Marron, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC, CB 3260, Email:
marron@unc.edu. Additional information is available at the web address:
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***Be on the lookout for student funding emails for NCCCMA, #NonprofitSTRONG, and other professional development opportunities. ****
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