Volume 1, Issue 2

St. Cloud State University / MPA INSIGHTS

MPA Insights

Volume 1, Issue 2

St. Cloud State University / MPA INSIGHTS 2

The faculty and graduate student assistants are pleased to present Volume 1, Issue 2 of SCSU MPA Insights. The article directly above describes our program and highlights a few of our notable programmatic elements. If you received Volume 1, Issue 1, this section looks similar. We’ll find something more creative for next fall’s Insights.

We can report to you that our collaborative approach to managing the program remains intact. Dr. Hamann is focusing in on the nonprofit aspect of our work, while Dr. Schooley is our point person for city and county government. Dr. Yang is our international development expert. Dr. Wagner remains our resident bureaucrat and paves the way for everyone as they process forms and other paperwork across campus, and is easily recognized because he’s always carrying our budget documents. He also fills in where he can

in city and county management and nonprofit management and looks forward to a greater teacher role.

We hope you enjoy reading about our Town and Gown Initiatives and the upcoming Management and Leadership Conferences, and hope to see many of you at them. This issue we have our faculty spotlight on Dr. Shoua Yang. Enjoy learning about him. He’s led a wonderful and interesting life. We had hoped to report that our search for a fifth faculty is underway for next year but the SCSU budget will not support adding a new position this year. We have requested the creation of a new department of public administration and hope to hear soon about that request. The fifth position and an independent public administration department are necessary for NASPAA Accreditation. We’ll update you when we know more…

MPA PROGRAM OVERVIEW

I n s i d e t h i s

e d i t i o n

Collaborative

Corner

2

MPA Faculty 3

Summer/Fall

Courses 2016

4

Get to Know

Your Professor

4

Faculty News 4

Town and Gown

Initiatives

5

NASPAA

Accreditation

5

Upcoming

Conferences

6

Class Notes 6

COLLABORATIVE CORNER

Visit Us Online:

www.stcloudstate.edu

/graduate/mpa

St. Cloud State University’s Master of Public Administration Newsletter

The Master of Public Administration (MPA) Degree is the professional degree for students

seeking a career in public service or nonprofit management and will prepare you as a leader

or manager in the public or nonprofit sectors. You will develop skills and techniques used

by public and nonprofit managers to implement policies, projects, and programs that

address important problems within your organization or community. You will study a

common set of core courses and choose elective courses in your concentration of interest.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

Concentrations are offered in City and County Government Leadership and Management,

Nonprofit Organization Leadership and Management, International Development

Leadership and Management, and Health Care Administration Leadership and

Management.

Most classes are offered in the evenings or online to accommodate working students.

Faculty are fulltime tenured or tenure track professors.

MPA Insights

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TENTATIVE FALL 2016 COURSES

MPA FACULTY

DARLA HAMANN

comes to us from the

University of Texas-

Arlington. Her Ph.D. is

from the University of

Minnesota. She teaches

core and nonprofit

concentration courses.

SHAWN SCHOOLEY

comes to us from Auburn

University. His Ph.D. is

from Virginia Tech. He

teaches core and local

government courses.

STEVEN WAGNER

received his Ph.D. and

MPA from Northern

Illinois University. He has

taught core, local

government, and

nonprofit courses over the

years.

SHOUA YANG received

his Ph.D. from Northern

Illinois University and

MPA from Cleveland

State University. He

teaches core, local, and

international development

concentration courses.

MPA 600 Foundations of Public Administration and Public Service MPA 601 Public and Nonprofit Organization Theory and Behavior

MPA 602 Public Budgeting and Public Finance

MPA 604 Leadership in Public and Nonprofit Organizations

MPA 621 Emerging Issues in Local Government Leadership and Management

MPA 620 Leadership and Local Government Management

MPA 623 Managing Public Works, Regulatory and Human Services in Local Governments

MPA 633 Partnerships, Innovation, and Change

MPA 655 International Organizations and Development

SUMMER 2016 COURSES

Dr. Shawn Schooley will be offering MPA 640 Topics in Public and Nonprofit

Management and Leadership: Advanced Private Security & Local Government. It is

scheduled for the first six-week block of classes, Monday through Thursday, 5:00-7:00 pm,

on St. Cloud State’s campus.

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Dr. Schooley will be presenting at the National Gang Crime Research Center's Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, August 8th - 10th. He will and will be teaching two sessions : "Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs" and "Testifying in Court as a Professional Law Enforcement Witness"

Dr. Yang visited Chiang Mia University, Chiang Mia, Thailand, Universiti Sains, Malaysia, National Institute of Development Administration, Bangkok, Thailand to strengthen our collaborative relationships and recruit students for the International Development Concentration.

Dr. Wagner, with colleagues associated with the SCSU Survey Research Center, obtained a grant from the St. Cloud Area Community Foundation to conduct a survey of central Minnesota households regarding their views on Social Capital. Again with SCSU Survey Research Center faculty, Dr. Wagner obtained a grant from the Minnesota State Lottery agency to conduct a study of Minnesota households and their views toward gambling.

Arts in Public Administration in the

Levin College of Urban Affairs.

Having committed to teaching at the

college level, he attended Northern

Illinois University, where he obtained

his PhD in Public Administration

with emphasis in organizational

theories, public policy, and

comparative politics in Southeast

Asia. Upon his graduation in 2006,

Professor Yang accepted his first

teaching position in the Department

of Political Science at the University

of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, prior to

his academic appointment in the

Department of Political Science at

SCSU in 2008. Now, as a member of

the Master of Public Administration

Program in the School of Public

Affairs at SCSU, Professor Yang, in

addition to his teaching obligation of

both undergraduate and graduate

programs’ courses, is designated to

recruit both minority students in the

U.S. and international students

abroad. During each Christmas

break, Professor Yang and his

colleagues have escorted students to

Laos, Malaysia, and Thailand, where

Professor Yang has recruited

international students through program

presentations at the National Institution

of Development Administration

(NIDA) in Bangkok, Thailand; at

Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai,

Thailand; and at the Universiti Sains

Malaysia in Penang, Malaysia. Having

established the program partnerships

with these foreign academic institutions

through MOUs, the MPA Program at

SCSU through Professor Yang has

created a study abroad opportunity for

our MPA students to learn more about

public administration and international

development management and

leadership in these less developed

countries. As for community services,

Professor Yang co-founded the Hmong

Nationalities Organization, Inc., that has

partnered with SCSU to provide

leadership trainings in civic

engagements for members of the

Hmong-American communities

throughout the United States.

Professor Shoua Yang grew up in

Xieng Khouang, Laos. Because of

the Secret War in Laos during the

Vietnam War, Yang migrated to

Minnesota in 1984, where

he attended Harding High School

in St. Paul. Having highly

considered education as a key of a

successful life, he attended St.

Mary's College (now university) of

Minnesota, where he received his

Bachelor of Arts in Political

Science. To broaden his education,

he attended Ohio University, where

he graduated with a dual-Masters

of Arts in Political Science and

International Studies in Southeast

Asian governments and politics. He

then attended Cleveland State

University in Cleveland, Ohio,

where he received his Master of

GET TO KNOW PROFESSOR YANG

FACULTY NEWS

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SCSU's Public Administration faculty discussed SCSU's

role in the greater St. Cloud Community on Saturday,

February 6th at the Herb Brooks Center. Topics were

SCSU’s role in education, service, research, consulting

and economic development in St. Cloud. Town and

Gown Relations offer the opportunity to directly

participate in building strategies to strengthen SCSU and

community relationships.

TOWN AND GOWN INITIATIVES

St. Cloud’s Whitney Senior Center's "Third Age University" Humanities Discussion Series, had Dr. Schooley present "Can We Run Government Like A Business?"

February 3, 10, 17, & 24, the MPA Program is holding its second Lifelong Learning Community Session entitled "Ethics of Public Administrators." The discussion is at the Whitney Senior Center, St. Cloud from 2:30 - 3:30pm.

February 3, 10, 17, & 24, the MPA Program is holding its second Community Book Discussion Group, looking at Thomas Friedman's "The World is Flat 3.0" The discussion is at the Central Perk Coffee Shop, St. Cloud from 5:00 - 6:00pm.

March 24th, at the Whitney Senior Center's, Dr. Schooley is presenting "Third Age University" Humanities Discussion Series: "Social Contract Theory & Our Civil Liberties".

All events are free and open to the public!

NASPAA The Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) is the accrediting body of MPA degree programs. SCSU’s MPA Program is designed to obtain accreditation.

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The St. Cloud State MPA program co-hosted

the Minnesota City/County Management

Association’s

2016 Mid-Winter Professional Development

Workshop January 28-29, 2016

Innovation: Next Big Things and Police –

Community Relations

Marriott Courtyard Hotel 404 W. St Germain

St., St. Cloud, MN 56301

Annual Conference of the Minnesota City Managers Association May 4th - 6th - Nisswa, MN.

UPCOMING CONFERENCES Minnesota Council of Nonprofits

2016 Greater Minnesota Nonprofit Summit

Dr. King Banaian, Dean of School of Public

Affairs will speak as well as Dr. Yang and

Dr. Hamann will present on performance

management in nonprofits.

May 5th, 2016, 7am to 5pm

Rivers Edge Convention Center

St. Cloud, MN 56301

Minnesota City Clerks and Finance Officers' Association conference, at the Rivers Edge Convention Center, St. Cloud, March 16th and 17th.

Minnesota Municipal Clerks Institute, Plymouth, MN May 2nd – 6th.

Dr. Schooley will be teaching two courses at the Minnesota

Municipal Clerks Institute on May 4th and 5th. The courses are

"Local Government" and "Leadership in Local Government"

Please note: SCSU MPA faculty will be present at all of these

conferences.

CLASS NOTES This semester Dr. Hamann’s MPA 606 Strategic Management

class will be writing the strategic plan for the St. Cloud State

University MPA program as well as strategic development

planning for a local Salvation Army youth program.

Department of Political Science

Building 51

720 4th Ave S.

St. Cloud, MN 56301

Phone: 320-308-2162

Email:publicadministration@stcloudstate.edu

Visit www.stcloudstate.edu/graduate/mpa

for more information