Welcome Week Schedule General Meetings Case Study Math Professional Writing Stress Management Optional Tours of Downtown Campus

Resume Writing/ Internships Case Study Office Hours Microsoft Excel Career Office Hours Social Activities

Schedule Notes Saturday morning is mandatory for all students starting the program in Fall 2015. Saturday afternoon is mandatory for all students. All day Friday is mandatory for all students. All case study (light green) meetings are mandatory for all students. All students must attend one of the Professional Standards in Using and Citing Sources workshop options. For information on the other workshops, please see pages 4 & 5.

Date

Saturday 8/15

Date

Location

Time Slot

Event

HS Café

9:00 AM

Sign in/Coffee

HS 106A

9:30 AM

Welcome from the Dean

HS 106A

9:50 AM

Staff Introductions and Reminders

HS 106A

10:15 AM

What to Expect During Welcome Week

HS 106A

10:45 AM

MPA Program Overview

HS 106A

11:15 AM

Career Office Information Session

HS Café, HS 004

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Lunch – take network survey!

HS 106A

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Math Diagnostic test

HS 106A

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Introduction of Case Study Group Exercise

Location

Time Slot

Event Assignment due for those attending the Monday Session of Professional Writing

Sunday 8/16

12:00 PM HS 202, HS 204

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Case Study Office Hours

Front Lawn

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Study Break! Kickball game & refreshments

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Welcome Week Schedule (continued) General Meetings Case Study Math Professional Writing Stress Management Optional Tours of Downtown Campus

Date

Monday 8/17

Date

Tuesday 8/18

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Resume Writing/ Internships Case Study Office Hours Microsoft Excel Career Office Hours Social Activities

Location

Time Slot

Event

Husted Lobby

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM

Tour of Downtown Campus (Option 1)

HS 004

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Excel Basics (Option 1)

Husted Lobby

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Tour of Downtown Campus (Option 2)

HS 219

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Professional Standards in Using and Citing Sources in Written Work (Option 1) - Bring a copy of the pre-reading and your assignment

Milne 105

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Career Office Hours – Internship Waivers Only

Husted Lobby

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tour of Downtown Campus (Option 3)

HS Café

5:00 PM - 6:00PM

Dinner with second year students

HS 106A

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Memo Writing/PowerPoint Workshop

Location

Time Slot

Event

HS 204

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Math Refresher I (Option 1)

HS 214

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Resume Writing/Internship Basics (Option 1) Bring Career Handbook and resume

12:00 PM

Case Study Blackboard conversation ends

HS 214

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Math Refresher II (Option 1)

HS 202, HS 204

3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Case Study Office Hours

HS 204

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

Math Refresher I (Option 2)

HS 004

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

EXCEL Basics (Option 2)

Date

Wednesday 8/19

Date

Thursday 8/20

Date

Friday 8/21

Location

Time Slot

Event

Husted Café

7:45 AM - 9:00 AM

MPA Alumni Networking Breakfast

HS 106A

9:00 AM - 10:30 PM

How to find an internship using Handshake and the NYS Internship Portal

HS 204

10:45 AM - 12:15 PM Math Refresher III (Option 1) 12:00 PM

Assignment due for those attending the Thursday Session of Professional Writing

HS 004

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

EXCEL— ”Fun with Charts and Graphs” (Option 1)

Milne 105

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Career Office Hours

HS 214

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Math Refresher II (Option 2)

HS 004

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

EXCEL— "Fun with Charts and Graphs" (Option 2)

Location

Time Slot

Event

HS 217

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM Writing with Numbers

HS 219

Professional Standards in Using and Citing Sources 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM in Written Work (Option 2)- Bring a copy of the pre-reading and your assignment

Milne 105

11:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Career Office Hours

HS 219

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Stress Management Workshop

HS 214

2:30 PM - 4:30 PM

Resume Writing/Internship Basics (Option 2) Bring Career Handbook and resume

HS 204

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

Math Refresher III (Option 2)

Husted Café

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Ice Cream Social (Ice cream served til 7:30 pm)

Location

Time Slot

Event

HS 2nd Floor

8:45 AM - 9:30 AM

Breakfast

HS 2nd Floor

8:45 AM - 9:30 AM

Professional headshots (for LinkedIn and other social media) Stop by when you have a free minute!

HS 008, 014, 202, Group Presentations of Case Study Outcomes to 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM 204, 210, 214, 219 Faculty Panels Page Hall auditorium

11:30 AM - 12:15 PM Case Study debrief

Unitarian Hall

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch

Unitarian Hall

1:00 PM - 1:45 PM

Introduction of all Faculty

Unitarian Hall

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

How to use your advisor

Unitarian Hall

2:15 PM - 3:45 PM

“Advisathon 2015” - Bring your MPA Program Manual

Upon completion of the day

PASA Happy Hour 3

Workshop Descriptions Advisathon 2015: In an effort to help you make wise decisions about your time at Rockefeller, we have designed Advisathon 2015. All faculty members will be present at this exercise. You will have the opportunity to meet with your current advisor, as well as any other faculty members with whom you may be interested in speaking. Please bring your MPA Manual, as you will also fill out your Tentative Degree Program Planning sheet (TDPP) during this session. This is a mandatory session.

Case Study Group Exercise: One of the most important skills you can gain at Rockefeller College is to work in groups. To that end, we have designed a group exercise that you will complete during Welcome Week. You will be assigned to groups to complete a case study that is based on current events in the State of New York. To communicate your group’s recommendation, you will: (1) write an individual memo; and (2) deliver a group PowerPoint presentation in front of a faculty panel. The use of both PowerPoint and Excel will be part of this exercise. The mandatory attendance times for the group project are Saturday, August 15th, from 2:00pm to 5:00pm; Monday, August 17th, from 6:00pm to 9:00pm; and Friday, August 21st, from 9:30am to 12:15pm. Additionally, several professors will hold office hours on Sunday and Tuesday to answer any questions you may have concerning the case. The group exercise includes a graded portion that will be applied to your RPAD 507 grade. This is a mandatory session. How to Find an Internship Using Handshake and the NYS Internship Portal - This informative workshop will demonstrate how to find an internship using Handshake (the University’s internship and job search database) and the New York State Internship Portal. The session will feature a guest speaker from the NYS Department of Civil Service. This session is mandatory for all students who have not received an internship waiver. Math Refreshers I, II and III: You will take a math diagnostic test on the first day of Welcome Week to determine if you need to attend one or more of the Math Refresher courses. Depending on your score, you will be assigned to attend one or more refresher courses. There are two different times for each of the Math Refresher courses. If you are a continuing student and have already taken two of the following courses: RPAD 501, 503, or 505, and have received a B or higher you are exempt from the refreshers. Even if you do not need to take any math refreshers, you are welcome to attend the sessions if you feel you need the review. Microsoft Excel Basics & “Fun with Charts and Graphs” (2 sessions): You will be required to use Excel extensively in your core courses at Rockefeller College. To determine your familiarity with Excel, complete the pre-test (titled “Handout for MPA Admissions data exercise”) available on Welcome Week Central and read through the workshop materials. If you cannot complete the entire pre-test, you should plan to attend these two workshops. The Excel workshops will include an assignment for RPAD 504, to be submitted on the first day of class. Excel Basics will cover Part 1 of the assignment; “Fun with Charts and Graphs” will cover Part 2. Even if you are not planning to take RPAD 504 this fall, it may be helpful for you to attend this workshop and complete the assignment while the material is fresh in your mind. If you are familiar with Excel and can complete the pre-test, you do not need to attend these workshops. Because of space constraints, we ask that you sign up ahead of time for one of each of the workshops. Professional Standards in Using and Citing Sources in Written Work: You will need to attend one of two options for the Professional Writing Workshop. The workshop will focus on how to properly use and cite sources in academic work, and will utilize readings that can be found on Welcome Week Central. This is a mandatory session. 4

Workshop Descriptions Resume Writing/Internship Basics: Conducted by Jennifer Maclaughlin, Director of Internships & Career Services, the workshop will be divided into two sections: resume writing and internship basics. All students are encouraged to attend the resume writing portion to review the basics of resume and CV writing for MPA students. The second half of the workshop will cover the expectations of the MPA internship program. Please be sure to bring a copy of your current resume and Career Handbook to the session. In addition, Jen will be holding office hours throughout the week for individual resume review and specific questions pertaining to the internship requirements. This session is mandatory for students who will be completing the internship requirement. (This session is NOT mandatory for students who have already completed their internship requirement or have obtained an internship waiver from the Office of Career Development, but they are welcome to attend.) Stress Management Workshop: Graduate school can sometimes be stressful, and it definitely requires superior time management skills. Learn tips on how to manage time, develop school-life balance, and ease stress. An interactive presentation will be offered by the University Counseling Center. This workshop is optional. Writing with Numbers: In professional writing, you will often draw on statistics and other numbers to help persuade your readers. Throwing numbers at your readers, however, can quickly confuse and annoy them. In this optional workshop, Professor Stephen Weinberg will offer strategies for effectively using numbers in your writing, with particular emphasis on strategies for placing numbers into a meaningful and transparent context. This workshop is optional.

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Schedule by Workshop Workshop

Location

Case Study / Group Exercise Husted Hall, Page (All Sessions Required) Hall, Unitarian Hall

Option 1

Option 2

Saturday 2:00 PM 5:00 PM (HS 106A)

Monday 6:00 PM 9:00 PM (HS 106A)

Monday 10:00 AM 12:00 PM Wednesday 1:30 PM 3:30 PM

Tuesday 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Wednesday 6:00 PM 8:00 PM

EXCEL Basics

Husted (HS) 004

EXCEL - “Fun with Charts and Graphs”

HS 004

Math Refresher I

HS 204

Tuesday 9:00 AM 10:30 AM

Tuesday 6:00 PM 7:30 PM

Math Refresher II

HS 214

Tuesday 1:30 PM 3:00 PM

Wednesday 4:00 PM 5:30 PM

Math Refresher III

HS 204

Wednesday 10:45 AM Thursday 5:30 PM - 12:15 PM 7:00 PM

Resume / Internship - Bring HS 214 Career Handbook and resume

Tuesday 10:30 AM 12:30 PM

How to find an internship using Handshake and the NYS Internship Portal

Wednesday 9:00 AM 10:30 AM

HS 106A

Professional Standards in Using and Citing Sources in Written Work - Bring a copy HS 219 of the pre-reading and the assignment you submitted to Blackboard

Monday 2:00 PM 3:00 PM (Blackboard

Thursday 11:00 AM 12:00 PM (Blackboard

assignment due at 12:00 assignment due at 12:00 PM on Sunday) PM on Wednesday)

Writing with Numbers (optional)

HS 217

Thursday 10:00 AM 11:00 AM

Stress Management (optional)

HS 219

Thursday 1:00 PM— 2:00 PM

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Thursday 2:30 PM 4:30 PM

Option 3 Friday 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (HS, Page Hall, Unitarian Hall)

Public Administration Department Faculty Mitchel Abolafia

Michael Christakis

(On sabbatical spring ‘16) [email protected]

Public Service Professor

Research Interests: Economic Sociology, Public Management, Ethnographic Methods

Research Interests: Accountability, Assessment/Evaluation, Higher Education Policy and Management

Courses: PAD 506 Foundations of Public Management, PAD 610 Organizational Theory & Behavior, PAD 636 Cultural Analysis of Organizations

Victor Asal

[email protected]

IkJae Chung [email protected]

[email protected]

Research Interests: Risk Analysis and Risk Communication

Research Interests: Contentious Politics and Contentious Rights, Intrastate and Interstate Conflict, and Pedagogy

Courses: PAD 623 Management Info. Systems, PAD 629 Risk Analysis, PAD 668 Readings in Comparative & International Public Admin.

Courses: PAD 554/POS 554 Political Violence: Terrorism and Insurgency

Sharon Dawes

Kevin Bronner Public Service Professor [email protected] Research Interests: Public Finance, Fiscal Policy, Public Budgeting, Strategic Planning Courses: PAD 631 Cost Management for Govt and Nonprofit Orgs, PAD 641 Basic Govtl Accounting, PAD 690 Regulatory Administration

Shawn Bushway [email protected] Research Interests: Criminal Justice Policy, Sentencing, and Background Checks.

[email protected] Research Interests: Government Information Management, Information Policy, Public Sector Knowledge Networks, International Research Collaboration Courses: PAD 550 Foundations of Government Information Strategy and Management

Jennifer Dodge [email protected] Research Interests: Nonprofit Organizations and Public Deliberation, Public & Social Change Leadership, Environmental Policy & Politics

Courses: PAD 540 Public Policy Analysis, PAD 699 (Topics) Criminal Justice Process

Courses: PAD 500 Institutional Foundations of Public Administration, PAD 604 Inequality & Public Policy, PAD 616 Nonprofits and Social Transformation

Gang Chen

Bryan Early

[email protected] Research Interests: Public Pension Management; Fiscal Stress Management; State Budgetary Process Courses: PAD 501 Public and Nonprofit Financial Management, PAD 642 Public Budgeting

[email protected] Research Interests: Economic Statecraft, Nuclear, Space & Missile Proliferation, Foreign Policy, Terrorism, International Coercion and Cooperation

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Public Administration Department Faculty Sue Faerman

J. Ramon Gil-Garcia

[email protected]

[email protected]

Research Interests: Managerial and Leadership Effectiveness, Women and Leadership

Research Interests: Inter-organizational Information Integration, information technologies and organizations, Digital Divide Policies, New Public Management, Public Policy Evaluation

Courses: PAD 675 Topics in Public Policy Advocacy

Erzsebet Fazekas [email protected] Research Interests: Civil Society Development, Institutional Entrepreneurship and CrossNational Diffusion Courses: PAD 612 Nonprofits and Public Policy, PAD 610 Organizational Behavior & Theory

Pete Finn Public Service Professor

Courses: PAD 550 Foundations of Government Information Strategy and Management

Yvonne Harrison [email protected] Research Interests: Governance and Leadership of Nonprofit Organizations, Nonprofit Technology Adoption and Diffusion, Strategic Alliances and Partnerships, E-Government, Academic Service Learning Courses: PAD 506 Foundations of Public Management, PAD 607 Nonprofit Governance

[email protected] Research Interests: Financial Mgmt of Public Service Orgs, Financing of Public Parks & Rec Courses: PAD 532 Performance Measurement and Contracting in Gov’t, PAD 659 Managing Public Service Organization Finances

James Fossett [email protected] Research Interests: Health Care Policy, Public Budgeting Courses: PAD 522 Politics and Policy, PAD 642 Public Budgeting, PAD 644 Health Care Finance, PAD 656 Health Care Financial Analysis

David Liebschutz Public Service Professor [email protected] Research Interests: Law and Policy, Budget and Finance Courses: PAD 529 Law and Policy

Erika Martin [email protected] Research Interests: Resource Allocation, Policy Evaluation, HIV and Substance Abuse Policy Courses: PAD 704/INF 710 Research Methods I

Ashley Fox

Rick Mathews

[email protected]

Public Service Professor [email protected]

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Research interests: Political Economy of Health and Development, Health Politics and Policy

Research Interests: Emergency Preparedness, Counter-Terrorism, Homeland Security

Courses: PAD 140 Intro to Public Policy, PAD 540 Public Policy Analysis

Courses: PAD 559 Homeland Security: Building Preparedness Capabilities

David Matkin [email protected] Research Interests: Public Budgeting and Financial Management Courses: PAD 501 Public & Nonprofit Financial Mgmt.; PAD 640 Nonprofit Financial Mgmt, PAD 699 Auditing, Oversight and Control in Government and Nonprofit Organizations

David McCaffrey [email protected] Research Interests: Design and Behavior of Regulatory and Self Regulatory Systems Courses: PAD 535/ACC 535 Law in Financial Market Regulation, PAD 536 Technology in Financial Market Regulation

Robert McEvoy Public Service Professor [email protected] Research Interests: Local Government Management, Urban Policy Analysis Courses: PAD 683 Program Seminar in Managing Local Government, PAD 684 Seminar in Urban Policy Analysis

Brian Nussbaum [email protected] Research Interests: Terrorism, Homeland Security, Comparative Policing, Transnational Crime and Intelligence Courses: PAD 546 Homeland Security Risk Analysis and Management, PAD 554 Political Violence: Terrorism and Insurgency

Theresa Pardo

R. Karl Rethemeyer, Interim Dean [email protected] Dean of the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy Research Interests: Public Management and Governance, Social Network Analysis, Terrorism Courses: PAD 637 Social and Organizational Networks in Public Policy, Management, and Service Delivery: Theory, Methods, and Analysis

David Rousseau [email protected] Research Interests: Military Conflict, Shared Identity, Political Development, Foreign Policy Founding Dean of the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity.

Ellen Rubin [email protected] Research Interests: Organizational Justice, Civil Service Reform Courses: PAD 500 Foundations of Public Administration, PAD 507 Professional Applications I, PAD 618 Public Personnel Administration, PAD 671 Managing Public Sector Performance

Elizabeth Searing [email protected] Research Interests: Nonprofit Financial Management, Social Enterprise, Program Management, and Applied Ethics.

[email protected] Director, Center for Technology in Government

Courses: PAD 501 Public and Nonprofit Financial Management, PAD 613 Issues in Nonprofit Management

Research Interests: Government Information Management

F. David Sheppard

Courses: PAD 650 Building a Case for IT Investments in the Public Sector

[email protected]

Public Service Professor

Specialization: Homeland Security, Terrorism, Strategic Leadership Courses: PAD 553 Topics in Homeland Security and Terrorism

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Public Administration Department Faculty Edmund Stazyk [email protected] Research Interests: Organizational Theory and Behavior, Public Management Theory, and Human Resource Management. Courses: PAD 506 Foundations of Public Management

James Steiner Public Service Professor [email protected]

Jeffrey Straussman [email protected] Research Interests: Public Expenditure Management, Political Economy of Transition Courses: PAD 614 Managerial Leadership in the Public Sector, PAD 661 Comparative and International Public Management

Research Interests: Intelligence Analysis, Homeland Security

Stephen Weinberg

Courses: PAD 556 Homeland Security Intelligence, PAD 557 Intelligence Analysis for Homeland Security, PAD 558 Intelligence & US National Security Policymaking

Research Interests: Health Economics, Behavioral Economics, Public Finance

Patricia Strach [email protected] Research Interests: Public Policy, Citizen Participation, Public Administration

[email protected]

Courses: PAD 503 Principles of Public Economics, PAD 643 Economics of Government Programs, PAD 645 Psychological Economics in Public Policy, PAD 654 Economics of Health Policy: Your Money or Your Life, PAD 688 Statistical Programming Workshop, RPAD 725 Applied Quantitative Methods

Courses: PAD 526/POS 513 Field Seminar in Public Policy, PAD 603/POS 509 Citizen Participation and Public Policy

For a more details on Rockefeller College’s faculty members and a complete list of adjunct professors and staff, please view the online Faculty & Staff Directory at http://www.albany.edu/rockefeller/directory.shtml 10

Rockefeller College Staff Tara Heffernan

Jennifer Maclaughlin

[email protected]

[email protected]

Coordinator of Graduate Admissions and Student Services

Director of Internships and Career Services

Recruitment and admissions events, communication and outreach to admitted students, graduate student services coordination.

Undergraduate and graduate advisement, career skills workshops, internship and job placement.

Mary Hunt

Kara Pangburn [email protected]

[email protected] Director of Communications

Director of Graduate Recruitment and Admissions

Media relations, social media, Rockefeller College website

Student recruitment, graduate admissions process.

Sheena Kelly

Ben Stickan [email protected]

[email protected] Director of Development Director of Graduate Student Services Management of student services, academic counseling, coordination of the Peace Corps Master’s International Program.

Andrea Lomanto

Development program management, including donations, special projects, and personal involvement with the College.

Renee Wallingford [email protected]

[email protected] Assistant to the Dean Director of Alumni Relations Coordinate alumni engagement with current students, and events planning.

Administrative support, special projects, events and speaker series, commencement programs, and development.

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Building Maps — Husted Basement

2nd Floor

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3rd Floor

Building Maps — Milne

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