Last Week: IPP candidates attended Resume Review sessions with the Center for Career Development last week in preparation for their internship applications. The next step is Mock Interview night on March 4th. On Wednesday, the DPP attended a Research Workshop Lunch Series with DPP, School of Social Work, and The Rudd Center. This Week: Monday, […]
Weekly Recap: Preparing for the Future
Last Week: On Monday, GAPPS-ICMA held their first meeting of the semester. They worked on plans for volunteer events this Spring as well as discussed next year’s Leadership Team. If you are interested in being part of the Leadership Team on GAPPS-ICMA for Academic Year 2020-2021, email GAPPS-ICMA for more information. An Information Session on […]
Weekly Recap: What’s in Storrs for the DPP?
Our second week of classes, are now on the books! First year students have begun the IPP process, and our graduating students are applying for graduation. Last Week: On Monday, the DPP hosted two information sessions. The first was for the Fast-Track & Survey Research programs, which was held online. Our second session was at […]
Weekly Recap: Welcome Back To Spring 2020
Happy New Year Everybody! Here at the UConn DPP we have had quite the Winter Break. We skated around Bushnell Park, cheered on our Husky Basketball teams, and spoke with prospective students from across the country! For our first week of classes we hosted a Pizza Party to welcome back our students, and held our […]
Fall 2019 Employment Updates
This semester both our alumni and current students have excelled to new careers. Current MPA Fellow Jessica Muirhead (MPA 20’) recently became the Senior Program Manager at Capitol Region Council of Governments. MPA 2020 Sarah Croucher was recently named the Director of Academic Policy at the University of Connecticut. Our class of 2019 saw three […]
Weekly Recap: Good Luck On Finals!
Last Week: Associate Professor Kerri Raissian kicked off our week on Monday with a research feature on UConn Today’s newsletter. Her research, completed in collaboration with Megan Feely of UConn Social Work, Lindsey Bullinger of Georgia Tech, William Schneider of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, focuses on macro-level factors of child neglect. Read more on this […]
Weekly Recap: The Final Stretch
Finals are next week, but we still have one more week of classes. Last week was Fall Recess for the Huskies We rounded out the final days of classes with with Professor Yusun Kim attending the National Tax Association Conference in Tampa, Florida from November 21-23, 2019. Professor Kim presented on “Estimating Returns to Scale […]
Melissa McCaw Named a Women of Distinction in Connecticut
The Hartford Courant recently named Melissa McCaw, MPA 2014 a “Women of Distinction in Connecticut”. McCaw was one of thirty women selected this year based on her contributions in making a “…significant difference in the life of [her] community”. Currently, McCaw is the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management (OPM) for the Lamont […]
DPP Faculty Conference Recap: Fall 2019
This semester UConn DPP Department Head, Dr. Mohamad Alkadry, Director of Communications for the CT Office of the State Comptroller, Tara Downes (MPA Fellow 20’), and Assistant State Comptroller Michelle Gilman presented their findings on “The Connecticut State Workforce: An Analysis of Representations and Compensation Equity Across Gender and Race-Ethnicity” across the state at various […]
Jessica Weaver Named to Newington’s Board of Education
In 2018, Jessica Weaver, MPP 2020 voiced her sister’s difficulty in enrolling in Advanced Placement Science courses to a mentor. This conversation inspired her to run for a seat on Newington’s Board of Education. Earlier this month she became one of the newest members of Newington Board of Education. Weaver credits her MPP education with […]