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With my American University MPP, I got to see a direct connection between policy advocacy and change.
--Courtney McSwain,
SPA/MPP ’06
Nonprofit Professional
Durant receives 2012 Dwight Waldo Award
Robert F. Durant has been awarded the prestigious Dwight Waldo Award for 2012. This award is presented by the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) to persons who have made outstanding contributions to the professional literature of public administration over an extended career. The award recognizes an individual with active scholarship that has furthered the discipline of public administration. Past winners include our own David Rosenbloom, and our invited 2010, 2011, and 2012 Levine Lecturers – Kenneth J. Meier, Hal Rainey, and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Professor Durant is also the 2011 American University Scholar-Teacher of the Year.
NEWBOLD NAMED U.S. SUPREME COURT FELLOW
Stephanie Newbold has been named a U.S. Supreme Court Fellow for the 2012-2013 term. Professor Newbold will be assigned to the office of the Counselor to the Chief Justice. Established in 1973, the highly prestigious Supreme Court Fellows Program "provides fellows an opportunity to study firsthand both the administrative machinery of the federal judiciary and the dynamics of interbranch relations." Congratulations to Professor Newbold!
DPAP Ph.D. Students Win National Research Awards
Amanda Girth, PhD, DPAP 2010, has been named the 2011 winner of the American Political Science Association’s Leonard White Award for the best dissertation in the field of Public Administration, while Bill Resh has recently received the competitive 2011 Paul A. Volcker Junior Scholar Research Award, also from the APSA. Sarah Pettijohn, third year DPAP Phd Student, has been selected an Emerging Scholar for 2011 by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organization and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA), the leading scholarly association studying nonprofit organizations. Read more
DPAP Professors Awarded Research Grants
Alison Jacknowitz and Taryn Morrissey received grants from the Institute for Research on Poverty and the University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research to study food insecurity, obesity, and eating patterns among children ages birth to five. Read more
DPAP Degrees
Graduate Programs
- Master in Public Administration (M.P.A)
- Master in Public Policy (M.P.P)
- J.D & M.P.A.
- J.D. & M.P.P.
- L.L.M & M.P.A.
- L.L.M. & M.P.P.
- Ph.D. in Public Administration or Public Policy
Certificates
- Key Executive Leadership Certificate
- Leadership for Organizational Change
- Non-Profit Management
- Public Financial Management
- Public Management
- Public Policy Analysis
Executive/Weekend
Undergraduate Programs
