February

14th, 2012 This is your weekly summary of news from the SAPA Board: Meetings --The First SAPA General Meeting room number has changed. We will meet on Thursday, February 17th, at 5:30 PM, in Room 185 Graham Hall. During this meeting we will be voting on the new SAPA Bylaws. Also, there will be food served at the meeting! Please come out and support your school Student Association! Updates -- An MPA Faculty meeting was held last Wednesday wherein they wanted to remind students of the upcoming NASPAA re-accreditation site visit and encourage ALL MPA STUDENTS to attend! If you ever have any questions or concerns to be brought up at the MPA or entire Faculty meetings, please be sure to notify Jeralynn Miller at jemill@udel.edu. -- SAPA Bulletin Board: SAPA has been designated a bulletin board in the main hall of Graham. We will be sprucing it up with decorations and valuable information regarding student, faculty, and school affairs, in the coming weeks. The Bulletin Board is located south of the main entrance (toward IPA from the front door), directly across from the study abroad display. -- The first Graduate Student Senate (GSS) meeting of the semester was held last Thursday. At the meeting, a proposed graduate student fee for the new Carpenter Sports Building was discussed. The student fee would go into effect beginning Fall 2012. Look for more information in upcoming emails regarding the student fee and other information pertaining to graduate life on campus. Please direct your input and concerns to either Jeralynn Miller (jemill@udel.edu) or Kathryn Lonczewski (klon@udel.edu), your GSS representatives. -- Next month the Director of Parking Services will be speaking. Please pass on any thoughts or comments to Kathryn Lonczewski at klon@udel.edu. -- President Harker will be having an open meeting on February 20th, on promotion and tenure practices for faculty. Also, on February 27th, a meeting on emergency and non-emergency faculty suspensions will be held. Events -- The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) will be making a site visit to the SPPA on Thursday, February 16th, from 4PM-5PM, in Room 185 Graham Hall. This meeting is a chance for MPA students to meet with the team coming. Also, this meet and greet with the students is an important part of the re-accreditation process. We encourage MPA candidates and all other interested parties to attend and show their support and interest in the MPA program. Please contact Christopher Anderson at candersn@udel.edu if you have any questions about the site visit being made by NASPAA.

February 14th, 2012 -- First Fundraiser: Bake Sale: SAPA will be holding its first fundraising event on February 21st, 2012. The fundraiser will be a bake sale, which will run from 10 AM till 3 PM in Graham 183 (the faculty lounge)! We are asking all of you to break out your best recipes for this event. The plan is to have donators drop off their individually wrapped baked goods on February 20th, 2012 to Diana or Linda between 9:30 am-5:00 pm. SAPA will then sell those goods the following day. Stop by and enjoy! -- Join the folks from the Disaster Research Center (DRC) for Fika. Fika is a tradition from Sweden where everyone takes a break to enjoy tea or a light snack together and relaxed conversation. A number of DRC faculty and students have traveled to Sweden to work on research collaborations and they have brought this tradition back for us to enjoy as well. Fika is held weekly at 3:00 PM on Tuesdays in the Roundhouse. Please join us and bring coffee, tea, or a snack. If you would like to purchase something from the Roundhouse, please arrive early as it closes at 3:00 PM. Hope to see you there! -- The SPPA is celebrating its 50th Anniversary by hosting a Strategies for Success event, on March 19th at Clayton Hall. This is a great opportunity for students to explore career opportunities and professional development in government, public policy, management, and nonprofit organizations. This is an all day event, and classes will be canceled that day. The event is followed by a reception, which will run from 5:00PM 7:00PM in Clayton Hall. We strongly urge everyone in the SPPA to come out and show their support by attending the event. Stay tuned for more details on the event. Opportunities -- Call for Scholarship / Award / Fellowship information SAPA is placing a call for students who have previously been awarded scholarships, awards, or fellowships. It can be difficult tracking down information regarding outside opportunities, and so we ask that those students who have already taken advantage of such opportunities to please pass along the information. Send an email to SAPAssociation@gmail.com with the name of the opportunity and the process for which others can apply. This information will then be disseminated to incoming students. Thanks. SAPA BOARD (Christopher Anderson, Dana Sedlik, Nathan Roby, Ama Nyame-Mensah, Tya Pope, Timothy O'Boyle, Kathryn Lonczewski, and Jeralynn Miller)