MPA faculty, alumni, and students gathered for the annual MPA Reading Day Social.
At the 2022 Student-Alumni Conference, Paarth Mehta was named the 2022 MPA Alum of the Year. Paarth (MPA ‘14) is a Senior Budget and Management Analyst at Wake County in Raleigh, NC. He has previously worked at Catawba County, Cabarrus County, and Mecklenburg County.
Joanne Carman and Jaclyn Piatak are the new co-editors of the nonprofit journal: Nonprofit and Voluntary (NVS) Quarterly, the official journal of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations...
Congratulations alumna Laura Antanaitis who received the Kline Award for Best Student MPA paper this morning at the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration. Laura wrote the paper in her capstone course taught by Dr. Joanne Carman. The paper "Equity in Family and Medical Leave: A Response to COVID-19" was also...
Brock Long, former FEMA Administrator, provided a stimulating talk on emergency management policy in the U.S. on February 24, moderated by MPA alum Kevin Staley! The talk was viewed livestream by students, faculty and practitioners nationwide. Current MPA and Certificate students who wish...
Dr. Suzanne Leland presents American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions as part of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Personally Speaking series. From the CLAS Personally Speaking website…”American Cities examines decisions by contemporary American cities such as Charlotte to bid on and host one of the quadrennial major political party conventions. ...