During her time at American University's School of Public Affairs, Lara Prescott, SPA/BA ’04, knew she wanted to be a writer. After years of working on political campaigns after graduation, she took a risk, quit her “day job” and devoted herself to blending her love of politics with her love of writing fiction. Flash forward to the present day and her new book, The Secrets We Kept, has sold for $2 million at auction and has been optioned to be made into a movie.
Each December, we ask the SPA community for predictions for the coming year. This year, we asked the SPA Faculty to weigh in.
number 14 among 285 public affairs schools
by U.S. News & World Report's 2020 Public Affairs Graduate School Rankings
number 3 for Public Management and Leadership, up from #6
by U.S. News & World Report's 2020 Public Affairs Graduate Schools Rankings
number 5 for International Global Policy & Administration
by U.S. News & World Report's 2020 Public Affairs Graduate School Rankings
On Campus ·
Over two hundred federal employees converged on Kerwin Hall on January 10th for a second installment of Classes Without Quizzes, the unique SPA initiative that began in January 2019, during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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Research ·
New SPA research professor Michael Cohen is spearheading a project for the SPA Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies (CCPS) that will edit and publish the letters of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore.
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Research ·
SPA Associate Professor Taryn Morrissey was awarded two grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine the barriers for low-income families in enrolling children in early childcare and preschool.
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