Draft 1/3/2007
Doctoral Program Workshop
Feb 9 -10, 2007
At Southern University, Baton Rouge
Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
NASPAA
Friday , 2/9/07
9:00 – 12:00 Workshop for New and Future Doctoral Directors
12:00 – 1:00 Introductory Luncheon
1:00 – 1:15 Welcome/Introductions
1:15 – 2:45 Session 1: Recruiting & Graduating Students of Color
Recruiting and retention strategies – what are they? How effective are they? What opportunities and barriers affect graduation rates of students of color and the time to graduation of students? Do the needs of students of color vary from the needs of traditional students? How can such needs be addressed effectively? (We will be making the results of this session available to APPAM’s Spring conference on the academic pipeline, to enable the dialogue to continue.)
3:00 – 4:30 Session 2: Recruiting & retaining diverse faculty (broadly defined)
Recruiting strategies, particularly for faculty of color. What barriers do faculty who add to a program’s diversity encounter in achieving tenure? Why do they leave the university? What strategies, e.g., mentoring, have worked in developing and retaining diverse faculty?
Presenter: Dragan Stanisevski, Mississippi State
Diane-Michele Prindeville, New Mexico State University
4:45 – 6:00 Session 3: Socializing doctoral students for transitioning into faculty positions
The perspective of assistant professors: how well did their PhD program prepared them for faculty positions; their first year(s) – what has worked well and what is more would help; teaching in PA or public policy department when (a) the faculty member has no applied experience or (b) the faculty member degree is in a different discipline.
Presenter: Ramona Ortega, University of Dayton – unconfirmed
Dinner
Session 4: Meeting the needs of international students
(Intended for programs that admit or plan to admit more than an occasional international student) Admissions criteria that identify successful international students? Unique problems that international students from non-English speaking or non-western backgrounds encounter in their studies? How to take advantage of the insights and knowledge international students bring? How well do we prepare international students for academic and leadership positions in their home country?
Presenters: Christine Reed, University of Nebraska - Omaha
Possible concurrent session: Managing Inter-department Programs
What types of interdepartmental programs are there? How are resources
and responsibilities allocated among departments? What policies guide
decision making? What have been the most serious challenges?
Presenter: David Swindell, University of North Carolina - Charlotte
unconfirmed
Saturday, 2/10
9:00 – 10:30 Session 5: Focusing on the Core
What are the values, knowledge, and skills essential to the study of PA and public policy? How do we teach them – courses and pedagogy
Presenter: George Richardson, University at Albany, SUNY
unconfirmed
10:45 – 12:15 Session 6: Teaching Mentors
How are students prepared to teach undergraduates and graduate students? How are students introduced to non-traditional teaching methods? What strategies are used to give part-time students teaching experience? What do we expect from our TAs?
Presenter: Linda deLeon, University of Colorado
12:15 – 1:15 Lunch (identification of topics for breakout sessions)
To identify break out session topics participants will identify topics of interest, e.g., preliminary examinations, interdisciplinary programs (including inter-institutional or among schools in a single university), DPAs (this came up as a need in TX and CA b/c of limits on the number of PhD programs).
1:15 – 3:00 Session 7 Research mentors
Developing a productive career trajectory? Socializing students into producing, presenting, and publishing research. Strategies to avoid long delays or drop outs at the dissertation, finding an appropriate topic, starting to publish, alternatives to the traditional dissertation
Presenter: Hugh Miller, Florida Atlanta
Amy Donahue, Connecticut
3:15 – 4:30 Breakout sessions
4:30 – 5:15 Reporting and wrap up
We will ask for volunteer note-takers at each session to take notes so that we can report back to the participants and prepare a summary for NASPAA members