Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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In this Issue:
- Upcoming Program Dates
- MPA Happenings
- Upcoming UNC & Beyond Announcements
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- MPA Diversity Committee Workshop, March 18, 1300 Knapp-Sanders
- MPA/Planning Mixer: March 26, 6-8 pm, Back Bar at TOPO
- Deil Wright Lecture: April 2, TITLE: Preparing People of Color for 21st Century Jobs: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities
- MPA Spring Graduation Events: May 8-10
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The MPA Diversity Committee is pleased to partner with Deitre Epps of RACE for Equity, LLC to offer a
workshop on Results-Based Accountability
on Wednesday, March 18, from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the School of Government (Knapp-Sanders Room 1300). Results-Based Accountability is a data-driven process to help partners identify their goals and measures of success by first identifying the ends and working backward to the means by which the result will be achieved. Ms. Epps is an expert in guiding communities and organizations through this process, and she has gained local, national, and international recognition for her work. In the spring of 2019, she worked with the Australian Department of Education to help them identify their role in early childhood development and health.
This workshop will be specifically designed to introduce participants to RBA as a tool to promote equity. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with data and consider how RBA can support using public funds to achieve equitable outcomes. Our goal is to equip our public service leaders with a tool that can aid in data-driven decision making in the pursuit of equitable, healthy, and prosperous communities.
Please
RSVP
ASAP to reserve your space as spots are limited. Lunch will be provided. Due to the interactive nature of this event, participation will need to be in person. Registration is free and may be done
via this link.
The MPA Diversity Committee is dedicated to equipping our future public service leaders with perspectives and skills needed to promote equity and inclusion in their personal and professional lives. We achieve this mission by organizing events, creating space for discussion, and connecting our fellow students with resources to expand their understanding of public administrators’ role in creating diverse, equitable, and inclusive communities.
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MPA/Planning Mixer Planned!
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Ever wonder what the planners do? Join the Carolina MPA Program and the UNC Department of City & Regional Planning for a
networking mixer on Thursday, March 26, 6-8 pm
. It will be held at
Back Bar at TOPO
. Food and soft drinks will be provided!
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Wright Lecture: Preparing People of Color for 21st Century Jobs: Unfulfilled Promises & Lost Opportunities
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Thursday, April 2, 3:30-5 pm
Knapp-Sanders 2603 & streaming online
Please mark your calendars for the
2020 Deil Wright Lecture, by Norma Riccucci, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor at Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration. She will deliver a lecture entitled, “Preparing People of Color for 21st Century Jobs: Unfulfilled Promises and Lost Opportunities.”
Riccucci’s talk will examine the predictions demographers and economists made in the 1980s about how the social makeup of the American workforce will change by the 21st century. It was predicted that by the year 2000 greater job opportunities for Blacks and Latinx would be created, particularly in the tech industry. Riccucci examines whether these forecasts have been realized and achieved. She asks, for example, “have investments been made in the human capital of Blacks and Latinx?"
Dr. Riccucci is the author of numerous publications and books including most recently,
Policy Drift: Shared Powers and the Making of U.S. Law and Policy (New York University Press, 2018). Riccucci’s research interests lie in the broad area of public management, with specific interests in social equity policies and representative bureaucracy.
The event is free and open to the public; however, we ask that you register to attend. You can register for the event
HERE.We will send everyone a link to join online soon as well.
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Jaime discusses how her own undergraduate career and work with the Carolina College Advising Corps has led her into Public Administration. Let's support Jaime and check out the full article
here!
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MPA Faculty Highlight: Kody Kinsley testifies before Congress
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MPA Faculty member and North Carolina Deputy Secretary for Behavioral Health & Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Kody Kinsley testified before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations in January. The hearing was on
A Public Health Emergency: State Efforts to Curb the Opiod Crisis. Check out further details, including a recording of the testimony and a copy of the written testimony
here. News coverage of the hearing can be found
here. Thanks, Professor Kinsley, for all that you do!
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NEW Elective Highlight: Advanced Budgeting
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PUBA 736 ADVANCED BUDGETING: CORE ANALYTICS with Dennis Strachota
This online course will examine budgeting and finance issues in the larger context of the political, economic and social environment affecting short and long-range budgetary decisions.
Now more than ever governments operate in a continuous cycle of fiscal uncertainty, where dictated by self-design or world events. Students will exit this course able to effectively perform some essential budget and financial analyses and communicate the results to a variety of decision makers and stakeholders to better navigate through those uncertainties.
The focus will be on state and local government policies and practices, with a particular emphasis on local government. Topics include:
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Variance Analysis:
Detecting Potential Revenue and Spending Issues
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Costing and Pricing Services:
When and How Much to Charge
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Long-Range Financial Forecasting:
How to Achieve and Sustain Structural Balance
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Financial Reserves:
How Much is Enough
This new 8-week, 1.5 credit course, will utilize a case-study approach in 150 minute live sessions in the May term beginning at the end of April, 2020. A comprehensive syllabus will be available sometime in March. It will be taught by Dennis Strachota.
Professor Strachota has more than 40 years of experience in state and local government as an analyst and budget and finance director.
Prior to his retirement from the public sector in 2014, he served as budget director and assistant finance director for the City of Long Beach, CA. Among other positions, he also served as lead budget consultant and trainer for the Government Finance Officers Association. Strachota has edited, authored, and coauthored several publications on public budgeting and finance and has more than 14 years of experience teaching at the graduate level. He received his BA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
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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! First drink is on us, but please
RSVP here!
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UNC Student Stores is now carrying School of Government T-shirts. Order yours
here! We are also continuing to advocate for an MPA-specific shirt.
Student Stores is also continuing to offer School of Government diploma frames (
option 1 and
option 2).
**Please note that this listing is provided as a courtesy to MPA students. The MPA Program does not receive any proceeds from the sale of School of Government materials at Student Stores.**
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Upcoming UNC and Beyond Announcements:
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- Graduate Student Funding Workshop
- Finding Common Ground: Bipartisanship within Political Turmoil
- Effective Mentoring
- American Climate Leadership Summit in Washington, DC
- Safety II: When Things Go Right
- Call for Applications for the Graduate Certificate in Business Fundamentals
- UNC Libraries Present Race Deconstructed
- Carolina Demography on the 2020 Census
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Dear Graduate Students,
The rescheduled
GFIC workshop
will be on
March 19th at 12pm - 1pm.
The Graduate Funding Information Center will be hosting a workshop that teaches graduate students how to find scholarships and fellowships to fund their research and other academic endeavors. All students are welcome.
To register, visit
UNC Event Registration
. Even if you have already registered for the February workshop, please re-register for the March workshop.
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Effective Mentoring
March 23 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Mentoring principles are universal and apply to a variety of professional settings in and out of academia. This mentoring workshop series (
CIMER: Entering Mentoring
) will provide graduate students training in competencies and skills with effective mentoring (being mentors themselves). Graduate students in all disciplines are welcome to participate. Students who will be or are currently mentoring undergraduate students are particularly encouraged to participate. Sessions will be based on case scenarios, evidence-based practices, and participants are expected to actively engage in discussions. Participants are expected to commit to attending all four sessions. Those who complete all 4 sessions will receive a placard acknowledging their participation. Lunch provided.
March 23 – Session 1 – What is Mentoring? Maintaining Effective Communication
March 30 – Session 2 – Aligning Expectations, Assessing Understanding
April 6 – Session 3 – Addressing Equity and Inclusion, Fostering Independence
April 13 – Session 4 – Cultivating Ethical Behavior, Articulating a Mentoring Philosophy
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One of the many resources from the UNC Writing Center is their handouts on various topics. They recently highlighted how to avoid logical fallacies in your writing. Check it out
here!
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The 9th Annual
American Climate Leadership Summit
(ACLS 2020) on March 25-26, 2020 in Washington DC will be at at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center. The Summit theme is, Ambition • Restoration • Justice to amplify and accelerate ambition on climate solutions, and build political will and demand for climate action in the 2020 election and beyond. ACLS 2020 will draw hundreds of national, local and rising leaders from within and beyond the climate movement. New for 2020 is a Climate Town Hall with candidates, and Gina McCarthy will host the
American Climate Leadership Awards
, offering over $150,000 to winning leaders and organizations.
There are 10 student scholarships which includes full attendance for both days, exclusive access to the youth forum plus attendance at the Awards Gala dinner. Student Scholars would commit to attendance and up to 3 hours of support work at the Summit which could include things like registration, table scribes, or speaker and attendee logistics.
To access these complimentary registrations for students, please use this discount
code ACLS2020_UniversityScholars on the last page of registration. Mark Oswald,
marko@ecoamerica.org
, can answer any questions you might have.
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Library presents a view of ‘Race Deconstructed’
Fill out a government form and you’ll be asked to choose one of these race categories: white, black, Native American/Alaska Native or Asian. But who came up with these terms and what do they really mean?
A new University Libraries exhibition traces the scientific view of race through the ages, from Hippocrates to 1988’s Mitochondrial Eve on the cover of Newsweek. Two years in the making, “Race Deconstructed: Science and the Making of Difference” opened yesterday at the Wilson Special Collections Library. It will continue through April 19.
“We wanted to present an exhibition that would highlight the research value of Wilson Library’s superb history of medicine collections. Scientific concepts of race abound across the centuries and across many disciplines,” said Elizabeth Ott, curator of rare books.
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Carolina Demography on the 2020 US Census
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Hi all,
You can always email
demography@unc.edu
if you have data/Census questions or need to find a dataset about North Carolina. We’re happy to help.
All the best,
Mel
Melody Kramer (she/her/hers)
Director of Communications
Carolina Demography, Carolina Population Center
919-962-6108
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