Inaugural
spring conference. No specific theme. Conference
was focused on the curriculum in public policy graduate schools. |
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No specific
theme. Conference was devoted to envisioning the future of
APPAM. |
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"Public
Policy and Management Curriculum: Academic Content and Practical
Knowledge" |
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No specific
theme. Major session on "Global Economic Interdependence:
Implications for Public Policy Research and Education." |
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"Journalists
and Policy Analysts: How to Develop a Policy Analytic Framework
for Journalists" |
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"Increasing
Diversity in the Public Policy Process" (funded by a grant
from the Ford Foundation; part of the restructuring of the
Public Policy and International Affairs Program). |
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No specific
theme. Sessions examined diversity issues in case writing and
curriculum development in policy education, and enhancing communication
between academic researchers and policy practitioners. |
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"Innovations
in Practice and Teaching" |
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"The Changing
Policy Landscape: The Challenges to Curriculum and the Practice
of Policy Analysis" |
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"Civic
Engagement and Undergraduate Public Policy Education" |
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"Census
2000: Implications for Policy and Practice" |
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"After
Affirmative Action: Practical Strategies for Assuring Equal
Opportunity" |
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"APPAM
in the 21st Century: Where Are We? Where Are We
Going?" |
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"Public
Policy Education in the New Economy: Outreach, Careers, Technology
and Globalization" |
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No conference
held. APPAM's Policy Council held a full-day retreat to consider
the Association's mission. APPAM's Institutional Representatives
held a special meeting on ranking systems for master's programs
in public policy and management. |
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No conference
held. APPAM's Institutional Representatives met to discuss their
role in the Association and announced the intention to resume
holding the Spring Conference beginning in 2004. |
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No specific theme.
Three sessions examined "soft skills" in the MPP curriculum,
the design and management of client-oriented project courses,
and the structure of the Ph.D. in public policy curriculum. |
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"Globalizing
Public Policy Education and Research" |
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"Charting
the Next Twenty Years of Public Policy and Management Education" (Special,
multi-day conference held in Park City, Utah, in honor of the
20th anniversary of the 1986 conference) |
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No specific theme. One track was a multi-association summit on faculty diversity in the social sciences, and the second track was a planning session for conducting research on how pedagogy influences learning outcomes in public policy and management education. |
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