Both Shamelle and I attended the first faculty meeting this past Wednesday. As Undergrad Representatives, one of our responsibilities is to attend those meetings, relay any student concerns/ideas to the faculty, and then report back to you. If you have an issue you would like to address, please alert us before the next faculty meeting which is held on the first Wednesday of each month. Here's a brief synopsis of what was discussed:
- Dean Gil, the new Senior Associate Dean for the
- A main concern of the department was growth. We currently have approximately 225 public policy undergraduates. The department sees the potential to grow significantly in the next few years. There is demand, as seen by the following trends--more students declaring public policy as a major earlier in their academic career, more double majors with public policy, and active policy students (ex. Roosevelt Institution & PPMU). However, a lack of departmental resources is hampering that growth, and they're hoping that the Dean's office will help with that.
- The Washington Policy Semester will be starting again this Spring 2008, and Dr. David Podoff will be leading the domestic policy track of the program. Ambassador William H. Itoh will lead the foreign policy track.
- The department is tentatively considering establishing three new degrees: (1) a joint Ph.D. program with the
- The department is in the process of renewing the Hubert Humphrey Fellows program. The program brings talented mid-level professionals from all over the world to universities in the U.S. Fellows engage in graduate-level work, receive leadership development and professional training, and participate in workshops and conferences.
- Prof. Gail Corrado has been revamping the senior practicum course.
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