Update Mar 25, 2008: All the slots for this lunch date have already been filled. Sorry. The March 6th and April 24th lunches still have some open slots.
The second lunch of the Brown Bag Lunch Series is this Thursday, February 28th, 2008. Mr. Hodding Carter, III will be speaking about immigration policy. His biography can be found here: http://www.unc.edu/depts/pubpol/cater_bio.html
These lunches are organized by Dr. Gail Corrado, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Public Policy. Lunches will be held Thursdays, from 12:30-1:30pm in the first floor conference room of Abernethy. Students will need to bring their own lunch. Spaces are limited, so hurry and sign up by emailing Dr. Corrado at gcorrado@email.unc.edu.
Future lunches will center around child advocacy, bankruptcy law, American Indians in NC, and much more!
Date: February 28, 2008 (Thursday)
Time: 12:30-1:30 PM
Location: Abernethy First Floor Conference Room
Sign up by emailng gcorrado@email.unc.edu
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
February Faculty Meeting
The faculty discussed the possibility of forming a small PhD program with the School of Government that would focus on applied research for state and local governments. The discussion has been ongoing since last December. The program would not divert Public Policy faculty’s resources, but there would be some areas of overlap with the PhD program in Public Policy. It would increase enrollment in some of the core courses and would offer the department an opportunity to grow. No decision was made on this issue.
The faculty also discussed the “UNC Tomorrow," a plan to engage UNC with North Carolina’s problems. This is a high profile plan with a business model of accountability. However, it is unclear how this will affect the department. The plan is not clearly linked to resources yet, and the department is already involved in such applied research.
Furthermore, the faculty discussed the Strategic Plan for the department that they will be working on in the coming year. They will be working on a mandated self-study process. In the coming months, the faculty will focus on and refine the central questions to be examined. There will also be an external review committee to evaluate the program, and the faculty will be able to invite people to participate in that committee. They will be putting together a slate of potential candidates in the next meeting.
The faculty also discussed the “UNC Tomorrow," a plan to engage UNC with North Carolina’s problems. This is a high profile plan with a business model of accountability. However, it is unclear how this will affect the department. The plan is not clearly linked to resources yet, and the department is already involved in such applied research.
Furthermore, the faculty discussed the Strategic Plan for the department that they will be working on in the coming year. They will be working on a mandated self-study process. In the coming months, the faculty will focus on and refine the central questions to be examined. There will also be an external review committee to evaluate the program, and the faculty will be able to invite people to participate in that committee. They will be putting together a slate of potential candidates in the next meeting.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Policy Internship Fair
INTERNSHIP WORKSHOP
February 18 - 22, 2008
Dr. Corrado, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Public Policy, is holding a Internship Workshop next week from February 18th- February 22nd, 2008. This workshop will help students locate and apply for a policy-related internship.
Public Policy majors and minors will be given first priority. Students from Roosevelt or those with a strong interest in or previous experience with public policy are also eligible for the workshop.
TO SIGN UP:
Students can sign up for one of the 12 thirty minute slots offered each day, beginning at 9am. Sign up by sending an email to gcorrado@email.unc.edu with "Internship" in the subject heading. Slots will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis.
WHAT TO BRING:
Students should expect to be there for at least 30 minutes. Students will need to bring their laptop, a hard copy of their resume, a writing sample, and completed worksheets (Email angelalee@unc.edu for the worksheets).
February 18 - 22, 2008
Dr. Corrado, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Public Policy, is holding a Internship Workshop next week from February 18th- February 22nd, 2008. This workshop will help students locate and apply for a policy-related internship.
Public Policy majors and minors will be given first priority. Students from Roosevelt or those with a strong interest in or previous experience with public policy are also eligible for the workshop.
TO SIGN UP:
Students can sign up for one of the 12 thirty minute slots offered each day, beginning at 9am. Sign up by sending an email to gcorrado@email.unc.edu with "Internship" in the subject heading. Slots will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis.
WHAT TO BRING:
Students should expect to be there for at least 30 minutes. Students will need to bring their laptop, a hard copy of their resume, a writing sample, and completed worksheets (Email angelalee@unc.edu for the worksheets).
Brown Bag Lunch Series
BROWN BAG LUNCH SESSION
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM
Abernethy, 1st Floor Conference Room
Interested in having lunch with policy professionals from a wide range of fields? Come to a Brown-Bag Lunch Session!
These lunches are organized by Dr. Gail Corrado, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Public Policy. Lunches will be held Thursdays, from 12:30-1:30pm in the first floor conference room of Abernethy. Students will need to bring their own lunch.
Spaces are limited, so hurry and sign up by emailing Dr. Corrado at gcorrado@email.unc.edu with the lunches that you would like to attend, ranked by preference.
The first lunch is this coming Thursday, February 14th, 2008.
Dr. David Heinen (NC Non-Profit) will be speaking about non-profit agencies in NC, their focus, and their needs. He'll also discuss how to secure an internship from a non-profit.
Future Lunches
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM
Abernethy, 1st Floor Conference Room
Interested in having lunch with policy professionals from a wide range of fields? Come to a Brown-Bag Lunch Session!
These lunches are organized by Dr. Gail Corrado, Director of Undergraduate Studies for Public Policy. Lunches will be held Thursdays, from 12:30-1:30pm in the first floor conference room of Abernethy. Students will need to bring their own lunch.
Spaces are limited, so hurry and sign up by emailing Dr. Corrado at gcorrado@email.unc.edu with the lunches that you would like to attend, ranked by preference.
The first lunch is this coming Thursday, February 14th, 2008.
Dr. David Heinen (NC Non-Profit) will be speaking about non-profit agencies in NC, their focus, and their needs. He'll also discuss how to secure an internship from a non-profit.
Future Lunches
February 28, 2008
Mr. Hodding Carter, UNC Public Policy. Mr. Carter will be discussing immigration policy.
Ms. M. Broun, Guardian Ad Litum, Member, Dispute Settlement. Ms. Broun will speak about child advocacy needs in NC and about dispute settlement as an alternative to litigation.
March 20, 2008
Adam Feibelman , Associate Professor of Law, will speak about the policy implications of bankruptcy law.
March 27, 2008
Dr. C. Kidwell, Chair, American Indian Institute. Dr. Kidwell will talk about the policy issues concerning American Indian tribes in North Carolina.
Ken Broun, Professor of Law, UNC. Mr. Broun will be speaking both about his experience as former mayor of Chapel Hill, about the book he is writing on Nelson Mandella.
April 17, 2008
[Open --- but potentially, Judith Labiner of the FDA remotely from DC]
Dr. Richard (Pete) Andrews, Chair of the Department of Public Policy. Dr. Andrews will be speaking about the state of public policy study at UNC.
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Policy Tea with Saskia Sassen
Policy Tea Time
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Professor Saskia Sassen,
Columbia University
February 4, 2008
4:00-5:15pm
Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence
(Graham Memorial Rm 011)
Please come take advantage of this opportunity to ask her about her work on globalization (including social, economic and political dimensions), immigration, global cities (including cities and terrorism), the new networked technologies, and changes within the liberal state that result from current transnational conditions. She is also giving a public talk at the Global Education Center from 8:00-9:00pm that evening. Her biography is below:
Saskia Sassen is at Columbia University, The Committee on Global Thought, after a decade at the University of Chicago. She is also a Centennial Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Her latest book is Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton University Press 2006). She has just completed for UNESCO a five-year project on sustainable human settlement for which she set up a network of researchers and activists in over 30 countries; it is published as one of the volumes of the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (Oxford, UK: EOLSS Publishers) [http://www.eolss.net ]. Other recent books are the 3rd. fully updated Cities in a World Economy (Sage 2006), A Sociology of Globalization (Norton 2007), and the co-edited Digital Formations: New Architectures for Global Order (Princeton University Press 2005). The Global City came out in a new fully updated edition in 2001. Her books are translated into sixteen languages. She serves on several editorial boards and is an advisor to several international bodies. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Cities, and Chair of the Information Technology and International Cooperation Committee of the Social Science Research Council (USA). Her comments have appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, Le Monde Diplomatique, the International Herald Tribune, Newsweek International,Vanguardia, Clarin, the Financial Times, among others.
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