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Happenings from HQ
May has a lot to offer our Institutional Members!
- Voting is now open on the Strategic Plan for Institutional Members! Cast your vote below.
- Could your organization be JPAM's next home? Check out the RFP below.
- Interested in planning the #2017APPAM Pre-Conference Workshop? All the details are in the RFP below!
- Have an idea for a #2017APPAM Student Session? Check out the RFP below and submit a proposal!
- We've created a Public Policy Camp for underrepresented undergrad students! Check out the details below.
- Need to update your organization's contact information? It's easy - just complete this linked form!
- Have an upcoming event? Be sure to let the APPAM audience know about it and post it on the calendar!
Missed April's Update? Check it out here.
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Vote on the Strategic Plan today!
During the March APPAM Institutional Representatives Committee meeting, the strategic plan was discussed with the Executive Council, the Policy Council, and the Institutional Representatives. Several suggestions for revision and improvement were made to the plan which is linked here for your consideration and vote. Please cast your vote by June 23rd.
The strategic plan that you vote on below will guide the work of the APPAM Institutional Reps and provide a framework for focus.
For the March APPAM
Institutional Representatives Committee (IRC) Meeting notes, please click here.
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JPAM Accepting Proposals for New Editorial Home
APPAM is seeking proposals from institutions interested in becoming the editorial home for its flagship journal, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, for a five-year period beginning in July 2018. Kenneth Couch, the current JPAM Editor, will step down as Editor in June of 2018.
A selection committee to be appointed by APPAM will review proposals and make a recommendation to the APPAM Policy Council in time for its meeting in Chicago on November 1, 2017.
Proposals should be received no later than August 18, 2017
. Please send the proposal via e-mail to Tara Sheehan, Executive Director, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management,
tsheehan@appam.org
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#2017APPAM Pre-Conference
Workshop RFP
APPAM will host a workshop on Wednesday, November 1, 2017, just prior to the start of the 2017 Fall Research Conference. APPAM has held several of these workshops in the past with topics ranging from “
Microsimulation Models
” to “
Big Data
” to “Teaching Policy Analysis”. For 2017, we want to continue this tradition but we would like our APPAM Institutional Members to help us drive the content. Please review the pre-conference workshop RFP here.
We invite all APPAM Institutional Members to submit a workshop proposal on an emerging policy area or topic of interest such as methodology, management topics, or timely research. The topic does not have to correspond with the overall Fall Research Conference theme. Proposals are encouraged to be original in design and attract a broad audience of about 150 participants. Proposed workshops may take any format including, but not limited to, hands-on demonstrations or seminar style sessions. Submitters will be asked to include a number of details on their pro
posal such as speakers, format, organizers, and relevancy. Proposals for the pre-conference workshop are due no later than June 16, 2017. All questions and submissions should be directed to Tristanne Staudt.
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#2017APPAM Student Session
RFP
APPAM is seeking to host a series of sessions specifically programmed for student member attendees throughout the 2017 Fall Research Conference on Thursday, November 2 – Saturday, November 4, 2017.
APPAM has held several of these sessions in the past on topics ranging from The Grant Writing Process, Tips for Getting Published, Policy Career Paths, and Data Visualization. In 2017, we wish to continue these sessions and are seeking requests for proposals from policy professionals and students to help us drive session content.
We invite all policy professionals and students to submit a session proposal(s) on topics of
interest to students such as resume tips and CV pointers, presentation skills, bridging the gap between graduate school and your policy career, and how to effectively communicate your research. Please review the session submission RFP here.
Proposals are encouraged to be original in design and attract a broad audience of about 20 - 40 students and newer professionals. A
ll submissions will be reviewed by and are subject to change by APPAM leadership. Proposals for student sessions are due no later than June 16, 2017. All questions and submissions should be directed to Tristanne Staudt.
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Send Your Undergrad Students to Camp!
In an effort to increase the pipeline of diverse students into APPAM institutional member graduate public policy and public affairs schools, as well as introduce the field of public policy to a group of students who might not otherwise be familiar with it, APPAM will hold a one-day public policy camp for undergraduate students in Washington, D.C. in September. The programming will be interactive and designed to show promising, underrepresented undergraduates that have shown a proclivity towards policy what a career in the policy world might look like.
Five DC-area APPAM Institutional Members have partnered with APPAM to create the inaugural
Public Policy Camp
: American University, George Mason University, Georgetown University, George Washington University, and University of Maryland, College Park.
Underrepresented undergraduate juniors or seniors from non-partnering Institutional Members are encouraged to participate in the Public Policy Camp as space allows.
These students are currently being placed on a wait list on a first come, first served basis
. To place a student on the wait list, please email
Tara Sheehan
, APPAM Executive Director.
While there is no registration fee to participate, there are no resources available to help defray the costs of transportation to the event.
Camp Sponsorship
APPAM is soliciting sponsors for the inaugural
Public Policy Camp
. This is a great opportunity for graduate programs and research institutions to connect with this promising group of diverse students who have been identified as showing an interest in public policy and pursuing graduate education.
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Institutional Members in the News
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Shine in the Spotlight!
Want to be featured in the Institutional Member Spotlight? Check out who's in our current spotlight - the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University! Contact Meghan Grenda for this complementary and exclusive opportunity.
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JPAM Featured Article
"U.S. Child Safety Seat Laws: Are they Effective, and Who Complies?"
By: Lauren Jones, Ph.D. and Nicholas Ziebarth, Ph.D.
This article assesses the effectiveness of child safety seat laws in the US. Over the past 35 years, state laws have increased the age until which children are required to ride in child safety seats. The authors exploit state-child age level variation in the timing of these law changes to estimate triple difference models of the effect of the laws on restraint behavior and child fatalities. As part of our ongoing effort to promote JPAM authors to the APPAM membership and the public policy field at large, we have asked the authors to answer a few questions. See the authors' interview responses here.
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