SPA Success Stories

Success Stories

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  SPA Alum Griffin Helps New England Students

  Chip Griffin, SPA/BA ’94, cofounder and CEO of Custom Scoop online news clipping service, made a $100,000 gift to create an endowed scholarship supporting SPA students from New England states.
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  Erin M. Fuller

  Erin M. Fuller, SPA/BA '93, SPA/MPA '94, vice president at The Coulter Companies and on the AU Alumni Board, came to AU to study music, but changed her major to political science after her first government class and a tour of the Hill. 
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  By the Numbers: Lynn Addington on Crime, Schools, and Stats

  Lynn Addington, one of the nation’s foremost experts in crime measurement. Her expertise applies to the nature of violent crime, its impact on victims, the fear of victimization, and the timely topic of school violence.
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  Key MPA Students Featured in The Public Manager

  The summer 2008 issue of the The Public Manager featured articles by Key Executive Leadership students about their experiences in the program and the application to their work as government executives.
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  Undercover Work: Robert J. Marshak Discusses Organizations' Hidden Forces

  Robert J. Marshak of the AU/NTL program is the author of Covert Processes at Work: Managing the Five Hidden Dimensions of Organizational Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2006), which addresses the concealed forces at play in offices around the world.
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  SPA's Durant on the Greening of the Military

  SPA professor Robert Durant’s book, The Greening of the U.S. Military: Environmental Policy, National Security, and Organizational Change, traces the struggle to raise environmental consciousness and responsibility within the modern military.