Carolina MPA Student Digest:
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- Summer/Fall Registration Advising Appointments: ongoing
- MPA Happy Hour Hub: May 16, 5 pm, Durham, NC
- Fall Immersion Course: Oct. 3-5 (details below)
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Carolina MPA News and Announcements
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for a happy hour in the Bull City!
Thursday, May 16, 2019
5:00 p.m. - 8:00(ish) p.m.
800 Taylor St, #9-150
Durham, NC 27701
If you would like to help organize a Happy Hour Hub in your community, contact Brandon Foster at
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New MPA@UNC Financial Aid Video
Many thanks to the UNC Office of Student & Scholar Aid for producing this video especially for our online program. Check it out below!
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Follow your fellow MPA students as they blog about the Professional Work Experience this summer on the
MPA Matters Blog
. Our bloggers this summer are:
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Courtney Cooper-Lewter
with the Chatham County, NC Manager’s Office
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Micayla Costa
with the Urban Institute in Washington, DC
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Brian Farmer
with the City of Salisbury, NC Manager’s Office
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Hallee Haygood
with the City of Durham, NC Budget & Management Department
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Sydney Lawrence
with the US EPA Office of Air Quality Planning Standards, Policy Analysis & Communications in Durham, NC
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Karson Nelson
with the NC Department of Public Instruction Superintendent’s Office in Raleigh, NC
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Register for the Fall Immersion Now!
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PUBA 744: Communicating Data for Public Impact
October 3-5, 2019 at the School of Government
John Quinterno, Adjunct Instructor / Principal, South by North Strategies, Ltd.
Over the past decade, the ways in which public administrators and policy analysts are expected to present data and conclusions have changed radically. The growing availability of raw public data, the increased availability of cheap and powerful analytical and presentation software, the ubiquity of mobile computing, the advent of social media, and the deepening scientific understanding of human visual perception and comprehension—all of these factors have altered how research should be presented to ensure that it resonates with civic leaders, journalists, and the public.
Today, professionals working in the broad public sector need to think carefully about how to communicate their findings, especially when trying to reach non-expert decision makers. While analysts must ground their work in sound research methods, they also must think deliberately about how to communicate concisely, clearly, and effectively in written documents, in oral presentations, and in electronic media.
This skills-based immersion course aims to expose MPA students to the emerging research related to the effective communication of public data, such as the data compiled by public statistical agencies like the US Census Bureau. Covered topics include how to develop clear messages, how to design effective visual elements like charts and tables, how to best format written documents, and how to deliver effective oral presentations of quantitative information.
There are no formal pre-requisites for this course, and no prior knowledge of specific analytical techniques or software packages is required.
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Here is my next blog post. This is about John Sanders (MPA Alum) receiving an honorary degree at Carolina’s commencement on Sunday. I was asked to say something about John at a dinner on Saturday evening, and I’ve included those remarks too. It was just great to see John honored in this way. Everyone who works at the School now, and everyone who works here in the future, will owe John a debt for making the transition from an organization that orbited around Albert Coates to the one that exists today. Good stuff. Thanks.
~
Mike
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John Sanders with School of Government Dean Mike Smith and UNC Interim Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz
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Upcoming UNC and Beyond Announcements:
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- What's White Got to Do with It?
- The Path to Three Zeros: A Year in Review for Sustainability at UNC
- Restoring Rural China
- Article: Join your Grad Student or Postdoc Association
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Join the North Carolina Center
for
Nonprofits for this 2-part webinar.
Key moments in United States history have established whiteness as the default, the norm, the supreme culture. Explore the socio-political and historical contexts of whiteness and how the white dominant culture by which most nonprofits operate was constructed and has been upheld through policy, legal decisions, and Eurocentric cultural values. Participants will have a chance to explore their own roles as gatekeepers within their organizations and how they can disrupt race-based inequity by leveraging their own individual and collective power.
Take a deeper dive into the extent that white dominant cultural tendencies have been internalized and operationalized within our nonprofits and the role that gatekeepers have in perpetuating or disrupting non-inclusive practices and policies. We’ll explore tactics that unite your staff and board in prioritizing equity and looking at the organization’s work and culture through a racial equity lens.
$35 for Center Members, $50 for all others
Registration for each webinar is separate
If cost a barrier for your organization, please
let us know
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This semester we asked Chief Sustainability Officer and Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus Enterprises Brad Ives to define each of the Three Zeros and share some of the goals and upcoming projects of the Initiative.
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While the United States and China take up roughly the same amount of land mass, China's population is over four times that of the U.S. — and more people means more change in vegetation growth. How do these factors connect to climate change? Conghe Song explores this relationship, pursuing a project that has led to his return to his birthplace: rural China.
Conghe Song is a professor and associate chair in the Department of Geography within the UNC College of Arts & Sciences, and director of the Graduate Certificate Program of GISc.
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One important lesson Robert Pearson says he's learned is that professional development and such associations intersect in important and interesting ways. Read more at
Inside Higher Ed.
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