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Mission The APPAM Policy Council has approved the following language pertaining to the Association's mission: APPAM is dedicated to improving public policy and management by fostering excellence in research, analysis, and education.APPAM promotes its mission through activities that include:
Governance APPAM is a nonprofit corporation chartered in Washington, DC and recognized as tax-exempt by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. The Association has officers that usually are elected at the Annual Business Meeting of the membership held during the Fall Research Conference, and a Policy Council elected in part by the individual membership and in part by the institutional membership. You may download the APPAM bylaws in pdf format by clicking here. The institutional members operate through a Committee of Institutional Representatives that has formal procedures for its meetings and decisions. You may download these procedures in pdf format by clicking here. History In 1978 the Sloan Foundation sponsored a conference on the public policy and management curriculum at Hilton Head, South Carolina, at which a proposal was made to create a new professional association of graduate schools of public policy and management. APPAM formally was created at a May 1979 conference at Duke University by representatives of 15 policy schools and research institutes. Within a few years, APPAM evolved to be a unique association of both individual and institutional members, with an elected leadership and Policy Council (the Association's board of directors). The first APPAM fall research conference occurred in 1979 in Chicago. The first issue of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management appeared in 1981. Beginning in 1985, the Fall Research Conference has been held in Washington, DC in all odd years, and outside Washington in all even years. The first meeting of APPAM's Committee of Institutional Representatives, in combination with an annual Spring Conference, occurred in 1986. After years of being headquartered at Duke University, and supported by part-time staff, the APPAM office moved to Washington, DC in 1993 and acquired a full-time executive director. The APPAM executive directors to-date have been Dante Noto (1993-1995), Dale Robinson-Anglin (1995-1999), and Erik Devereux (1999-present). APPAM has grown since 1979 to have approximately 2000 individual members, 105 institutional members, three full-time staff, and an annual operating budget of $800,000. Awards APPAM honors scholarly achievement in the discipline with a number of awards presented at the annual Fall Research Conference.
Since 1981, APPAM has sponsored several graduate fellowship programs in public policy and management to enhance diversity in graduate education and public service. The Public Policy and International Affairs Program currently fosters this mission with APPAM support. From 1997 to 2001, APPAM and the National Congress for Community Economic Development sponsored Public Policy Internships in Community Development for graduate students in public policy and management schools. APPAM uses a variety of means to promote excellence in public policy and management education, including both the Spring and Fall Conferences, the Curriculum and Case Notes section of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, annual meetings of policy school admissions directors and reports on admissions and enrollment at its member academic institutions. From 2000 to 2004 APPAM offered the National Survey of America's Families Small Research Grants Program with funding provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. APPAM on the Internet APPAM offers a variety of Internet-based services through this website. This currently include the following:
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON APPAM, CONTACT Erik Devereux, Executive Director Office address: 1029 Vermont Avenue, NW Suite 1150 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: (202) 496-0130 Fax: (202) 496-0134 Email: APPAM |
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