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    Help Haiti

    Up-to-date information on how
    to support relief efforts.

  • Brian Egger

    Issues of Importance

    MPA graduate's career is launched through
    GAO's Professional Development Program.

  • Classroom

    Do teacher qualifications matter?

    Assistant Professor Julie Riordan presents her research on No Child Left Behind teacher qualifications, as part of the Department of Public Administration and Policy's Spring 2010 Research Seminar Series.

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    Washington’s
    First School of Public Affairs

    In 1934, FDR called on AU for trained leaders.
    The School of Public Affairs was founded
    to meet this need.

    Today, SPA is still the place to become a leader.

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Photo: James Thurber with (from left) Ellen Miller, Melanie Sloan, and Jennifer Lawless, director of the Women in Politics Institute. International rescue team workers in an effort to recover survivors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
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C-SPAN broadcast sessions from both the Campaign Management Institute and Public Affairs and Advocacy Institute, presented by the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.

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CCPS Institutes

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Students

The Key Senior Program Manager Certificate prepares federal executives to lead complex acquisition programs.

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SPA in the Media

Crime Data

Lynn Addington, professor of Justice, Law & Society, was quoted in Detroit News about a recent FBI report that shows a decline in crimes for 2008.

See more expert commentary on policy, government, and justice issues from SPA faculty.

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AU has the most politically active students
—Princeton Review Best Colleges (2009)