 |
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
NEWS & EVENTS NEWS or click for: EVENTS PPIA Welcomes Two New Consortium Graduate Schools
PPIA is please to welcome the following two new members of the Graduate School Consortium:
PPIA Drive for Alumni Survey Participants Yields 27% Increase!
In response to a call by PPIA for alumni assistance to increase the response rate
for the alumni survey being conducted by Princeton University, the total number of survey participants increased
by 27% in less than one month! The total number of participants grew from 616 in late November to 783 by the deadline of December 19,
greatly enhancing the value of the survey as a source of information about PPIA's effectiveness. Transition in the PPIA National Office
Effective September 23, 2011, Erik Devereux will be serving as the Administrator of the PPIA National Office. Erik succeeds Marvin Ward, who resigned his
position with PPIA to take a position as a revenue analyst in the Washington, DC Office of Revenue Analysis. Marvin also will continue in his doctoral program
at American University's School of Public Affairs. Erik currently is president of 501c3 Tuneup, a
consulting firm that works with nonprofit organizations on governance and administrative issues. Prior to May 2010, he served
for 11 years as executive director of the Association for Public Policy Analysis
and Management, the organization that launched PPIA in 1981 and remains a sponsor of PPIA. While with the association, Erik helped
to incorporate PPIA as an independent nonprofit in 2000, and served from 2000 to 2009 as secretary/treasurer to PPIA's board
of directors. 501c3 Tuneup has been providing administrative consulting to PPIA since May 2010, and Erik arrives at the PPIA
National Office with extensive knowledge of the organization's programs and activities. Princeton University Highlights the JSI at the Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University recently published an extensive online article about the 2011 PPIA JSI at the Woodrow Wilson School. To read this article, please click here. Princeton University Launches Survey of PPIA Alumni
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, through the Princeton Survey
Research Center, and in cooperation with PPIA, has launched a major survey of the over 3,000 alumni of the PPIA
program. Alumni from the earliest to the latest cohorts are strongly encouraged to participate in this survey.
One important goal for this survey is to gather evidence about the impact of the program to help grow and
strengthen PPIA. Call for Nominations: PPIA 30TH Anniversary Alumni Recognition Awards
The PPIA Board of Directors seeks nominations of alumni from the PPIA Junior Summer Institute Program
(including Sloan Fellows, Woodrow Wilson Fellows, and PPIA Fellows) who exemplify the following two awards.
Submission Deadline: Friday, June 10, 2011 A total of two nominations per award may be submitted per individual/institution/organization. All nominees will be reviewed by a committee of the PPIA Board of Directors, and award winners will be recognized at the July 15th, 2011 30th PPIA Anniversary event. Follow PPIA on FaceBook and Join PPIA on LinkedIn
PPIA now has its own main FaceBook page, combining together elements of prior FaceBook pages created by PPIA Fellows. PPIA also has an active network on LinkedIn. All persons connected to PPIA are strongly encouraged to use these resources to participate in the community and receive all of the benefits of PPIA.
The PPIA board of directors, alumni groups, the Junior Summer Institute hosts, and members of the PPIA Graduate School Consortium are using FaceBook and LinkedIn to communicate important information about PPIA, so please consider joining them in these activities! New Leadership on the Board of Directors for PPIA
PPIA has new leadership on its board of directors as of late December 2010. Recent changes to the board including the following:
All of these changes to the board went into effect immediately. PPIA continues to move forward with a wide range of projects and initiatives related to its mission under the leadership of the board and with the administrative support provided through the PPIA National Office at American University. Marvin Ward is Appointed Administrator of PPIA
Acting on the recommendation of Dean William LeoGrande of the American University School of Public Affairs, the PPIA Board of Directors unanimously approved the appointment of Marvin Ward to be the administrator of the PPIA National Office. The appointment, effective September 1, 2010, marks the return to PPIA having paid staff in the National Office since February of 2009. Mr. Ward is a doctoral student in public administration at American University, and also holds a Master of Public Policy (MPP) degree from the School of Public Affairs (2009). He will be working half-time (20 hours per week) to provide administrative support for all of PPIA's program's and activities, including the admissions process for new cohorts of PPIA Fellows and the Graduate and Career Expos that PPIA will hold in the summer of 2011. This appointment is the first under a new five-year agreement between PPIA and American University to host the National Office within the School of Public Affairs. As part of this transition only the surface mail/office address will change for PPIA. The email address and all phone numbers will remain the same. PPIA Signs Agreement to Host Its National Office at the American University School of Public Affairs
(This article is available in PDF format — to download the 500KB file click here.) Washington, DC, 9/3/2010. The Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) has signed a five year agreement to operate its programs and activities under a hosting arrangement at American University's School of Public Affairs. Founded in 1981, and funded in the past through major grants from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Kellogg Foundation, the William T. Grant Foundation, and the Foundation for Child Development, PPIA fosters diversity in the public leadership of the United States by encouraging college students from historically underrepresented backgrounds to earn graduate training from some of the most prestigious U.S. graduate schools of public policy and international affairs and then launch rewarding careers serving the public good. Over 100 students per year are inducted as new PPIA Fellows, and the program currently has more than 3,500 total alumni located across the U.S. PPIA is one of the largest diversity initiatives at the level of post-graduate education in the history of the United States, and is the largest such initiative in professional public service to support Master's and Ph.D. degrees for students from diverse backgrounds. A new survey of the PPIA alumni to be conducted by the Princeton Survey Research Center within a year is expected to further document the impact of the program on the careers of the thousands of participants.
PPIA Fellows currently attend Junior Summer Institutes in public policy and international affairs during the summer after their junior year of college. The institutes are offered by the University of California, Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy; the University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy; the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz College, the Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; and the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. Students who successfully complete the institutes are inducted as PPIA Fellows and become eligible for financial assistance to attend graduate degree programs offered by over 30 members of PPIA's Graduate School Consortium. Application to PPIA is open to college juniors every year with a deadline of November 1. Each year over 500 students from approximately 130 colleges and universities seek admission into the program. PPIA is sponsored by three of the leading professional associations in its field: the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM); and the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA); and the American Political Science Association (APSA). APPAM previously hosted PPIA in its Washington, DC headquarters from July 2000 to May 2010, and its ongoing support of PPIA goes back to the very first cohort of PPIA Fellows in 1981. APSIA became a PPIA sponsor in the mid-1990s when efforts were made to add more international affairs content to PPIA. Over half of the PPIA Fellows have a background in political science, and APSA began sponsoring PPIA in 2007 in recognition of PPIA as an important opportunity for college students in the field. Most of PPIA's operating support comes from annual membership dues paid by the Graduate School Consortium, and from the generous financial aid the Consortium provides to PPIA Fellows upon admittance to graduate school. "PPIA has been blessed by the support of these excellent graduate schools and by their commitment to the long term career success of the PPIA Fellows," said Erik Devereux, former executive director of APPAM and the current treasurer of PPIA. "Throughout its nearly three decades of operation, it has been the graduate schools that have made PPIA possible and successful," Devereux said.
PPIA plans to hold multiple celebrations of its 30th anniversary in 2011. There may be as many as four gatherings of PPIA alumni and supporters, including major events scheduled in Washington, DC and New York City. "These anniversary events will be a wonderful opportunity to convene the alumni, recognize their many contributions to the country and the world, and look forward to the future of the organization," said Martha Chavez, vice chair and secretary of the PPIA board of directors, a PPIA Fellow from the early 1990s, and assistant dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy. Chavez noted that the New York City event would occur in April 2011, and the Washington, DC event most likely would coincide with PPIA's annual Graduate School and Career Expo to be held in the DC region in the second week of July 2011. Additional celebrations of the 30th anniversary are also being considered for the Chicago area and the Bay Area of Northern California for 2011. PPIA thus will be extremely active over the next year as it engages in the following regular and special activities:
|
|
PPIA • Ward Circle Building 312 • American University, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW • Washington, DC 20016 © copyright 2003 - 2011 PPIA |