Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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Inside this Edition:
- Upcoming Program Dates
- Program News and Announcements
- Kettl to Speak at Wright Lecture
- MPA Student Spotlight
- MPA Faculty News
- Happy Hour Hub in Charlotte
- Upcoming UNC & Beyond Announcements
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- Summer/Fall Registration Advising Appointments - ongoing!
- Course Registration for May term (online students) - March 18
- Charlotte MPA Happy Hour Hub - March 19
- REI Groundwater Approach Training - April 1, 1-5 pm, Health Sciences Library room 527
- Wright Lecture: Don Kettl - April 4, 3:30 pm, SOG
- MPA Spring Graduation Events - May 10-12
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Carolina MPA News and Announcements
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Kettl to Speak at Wright Lecture
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States Divided: How the Invention that United the Nation is Driving it Apart
Thursday, April 4, 3:30-4:45 PM, School of Government & online (link sent later)
Dr. Donald F. Kettl, professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, at the University of Texas at Austin, a nonresident senior fellow at the Volcker Alliance and the Brookings Institution, and author of numerous books including The Politics of the Administrative Process, will be this year's Deil S. Wright Lecturer.
When the founders created the Constitution, Madison came up with two great inventions: the separation of powers and federalism. The truly essential invention was federalism, without which the states would never have been united. But that essential invention is in deep trouble—it’s increasingly the source of profound friction and it’s driving ever-greater inequality in the country. If Madison’s instincts helped create the nation, can Hamilton’s instincts now help save it?
The Lecture will be followed by a Carolina MPA Happy Hour Hub down the hill at
Tobacco Road
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Carolina MPA Students Win at NASPAA-Batten!
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Elizabeth Anderson
and
Grace Frances
were recently part of a NASPAA-Batten simulation team that won the Washington, DC., region competition. Their policy will now advance to the worldwide competition. Elizabeth says, "I think we pretty solidly won because we took a values-based approach to our policy development. Carl Stenberg would have been proud." Elizabeth and Grace joined teammates Colin Karnes, Austin Hinkley, and Gina Pate from Georgia Southern University for the competition. Congratulations to you and your teammates!
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In honor of the University's 225th anniversary, profiles have been shared on unc.edu of some of the many Tar Heels who have left their heelprint on the campus, their communities, the state, the nation, and the world. Recently, online MPA student
Lorrie Fair Allen
was profiled during the School of Government takeover of unc.edu.
Read more here
regarding her career on the UNC Women's Soccer team and her work with the Charlize Theron Africa Outreach Project and as a sports envoy for the U.S. Department of State.
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Morgan Advises on Economic Development Tools
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On January 16, 2019, School of Government faculty member Jonathan Morgan was a featured speaker at the
launch of Homegrown Tools for Economic Development, a database created by
NCGrowth, an affiliate center of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC-Chapel Hill. The web tool connects public officials, practitioners, and researchers to successful small-town economic development strategies, some of which are from the School of Government publication,
Small Towns, Big Ideas. Additional partners in creating and promoting the database include the UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, the North Carolina Rural Center, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Use the database for your community by visiting
homegrowntools.unc.edu.
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New Publication in Preventative Health Medicine
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Calling all Charlotte-area MPAers!
(Re)Connect with MPA alumni, students, prospective students, faculty, and staff for drinks, lite bites, and great conversation in Charlotte.
On the heels of our first Happy Hour Hub of the year in Winston-Salem that saw 50 alumni, students, faculty, staff, and even one prospective student attend, we're ready for the next one!
Tuesday, March 19, 2018 - 5:00 PM
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
401 N Tryon St
Charlotte, NC
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Upcoming UNC and Beyond Announcements:
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- Pretty Huge Dance
- Ash Wednesday Services Near Campus
- Graduate Certificate in Business Fundamentals
- Kinship Guardianship: Perspectives on Preserving Family Connections
- Advancing Narratives: Being Ocean as Praxis: Sylvia Wynter, Depth Humanisms and Dark Sciences
- Transgender Day of Visibility
- Conflict over Gaza Conference
- Passover Seders with North Carolina Hillel
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RSVP
Here
for an evening filled with dancing, music, & a photo booth with 300 graduate students! This year's theme for PhD (Pretty Huge Dance) will be the Great Gatsby.
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Ash Wednesday Services Near Campus
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The community is invited to Ash Wednesday services with ash imposition on Wednesday, March 6.
The Catholic Community of St. Thomas More- 940 Carmichael Street
7 am, 12:15 pm, 5:15 pm Mass in English
7 pm Mass in Spanish
The Chapel of the Cross - 304 E. Franklin Street
7:30 am, 12 noon, & 7 pm Eucharist
4 pm Service for Children and Families
The Church of the Holy Trinity
6:30 pm service (NC Botanical Garden, 100 Old Mason Farm Road)
Newman Catholic Ministry - 218 Pittsboro Street
7 am, 5 pm, & 7 pm Mass (Newman Church)
12:15 pm Mass (Great Hall, Carolina Union)
UNC Hospitals - John M. Reeves All Faiths Chapel, 1st floor, NC Memorial Hospital
2:30 pm service
UNC Wesley Campus Ministry
10:50 am -2:30 pm - ashes offered on Polk Place Plaza near Wilson Library
United Church of Chapel Hill - 1321 Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard
7 pm service
University Presbyterian Church - 209 E. Franklin Street
7:30 pm service
University United Methodist Church - 150 E. Franklin Street
2 pm & 7 pm services
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Graduate Certificate in Business Fundamentals (GCBF) -- Application deadline extended!
Interested in exploring career options both within your field and beyond?
Want to gain skill sets useful for a broad range of careers, including
tenure-track academic careers,
alternative academic careers, and
careers outside of academia?
Through the
core and elective courses in the certificate program, you will gain skills in areas that are recognized as influencers of professional success, such as
communication,
leadership,
project management, and
accounting.
Even better – these courses are
usually free.
GCBF Application Process:
If you are
interested in applying for the certificate, you can do so via a one-step application process at
https://gcbf.unc.edu/apply-now/. The deadline to apply is
Mar. 15
th
at 11:59 pm.
Please feel free to reach out to Leah Townsend (
ltownsend@unc.edu) with any questions.
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Transgender Day of Visibility is March 28th
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We would love your input as we plan events for Transgender Day of Visibility. If you identify as part of the Trans community, please let us know your thoughts in the
TDOV planning poll.
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When: March 22-24, 2019
Where: Nelson Mandela Auditorium, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC-Chapel Hill
Free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the GEC/McCauley parking deck under the building, and Beard surface lot (both on Pharmacy Lane).
Registration is required
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Friday, March 22 | 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Reception: Gazan food
Concert: Palestinian rapper
Tamer Nafar of DAM
Saturday, March 23 | 9:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Panels:
“The (De-)Development of Gaza: Economy, Women, and Youth”
“Humanitarian Crisis: Food, Water, and Health”
“In and Out: Gaza and Freedom of Movement”
“Gazans between Fatah & Hamas”
“Gaza and the World: Egypt, Israel, and the United States”
For featured speakers, visit
here.
Breakfast snacks, coffee, and Gazan lunch provided for registered participants
Sunday, March 24 | 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Gaza On Screen: A full day of screenings featuring the diverse film work that has engaged with the Gaza Strip during the past seventy years.
For questions related to the conference, contact: Shai Tamari, (919) 962- 2034,
tamari@unc.edu
For questions related to Gaza on Screen, contact: Nadia Yaqub, (919) 843-8149,
yaqub@email.unc.edu
For media inquiries, contact: Katie Bowler Young, (919) 962-4504,
kby@unc.edu
SPONSORS: UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies; Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies
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Empowering Carolina Lunch & Panel Discussion
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Mental health topics continue to play a big role in national workforce conversations—and campus conversations. Based on the feedback we received from those who attended our fall Empowering Carolina Event on Mental Health and Well-Being, there is interest in more training and education about this topic. Accordingly, we are going to continue the conversation at our spring Empowering Carolina event. Join us for a dialogue and panel discussion about Mental Health and Well-Being on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, from 12:30 – 2:00 pm in the Blue Zone at Kenan Stadium. A buffet lunch will be served.
This year’s program includes:
- A report on the Mental Health Task Force convened by Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Bob Blouin, to be presented by Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Christi Hurt;
- An update about the Mental Health First Aid program from Clinical Associate Professor, Jodi Flick; and
- An announcement of UNC’s new “Count Me In” Campaign, promoting the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disabilities by ADA Coordinator, Rudy Jones.
There will also be a panel discussion on the campus programs and resources available to support mental health and wellness, with representatives from Accessibility Resources and Service (ARS), Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), the Employee Assistance Program (EAP), the Equal Opportunity and Compliance Office (EOC), Student Mental Health Coalition and the Work-life Wellness unit in the Office of Human Resources. The audience will have an opportunity to interact with the panel in a lively question and answer session at the end of the program.
The event is also open to the public, and we ask those planning to attend to
RSVP
as well. The deadline for registering for this event is March 19, 2019.
If you need accommodations for the event (e.g., sign language interpreters), please be sure to indicate that within your online registration.
For questions regarding accommodations, contact Rudy Jones at
rudy_jones@unc.edu
, (919) 962-9980, or (T) 711 NC RELAY as soon as possible.
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