First PAGC Meeting of the Semester!

Public Administration Graduate Council (PAGC) Meeting

Thursday, February 11, 2010 at 5:45 pm in the Mainzer Room (4th Floor, Thompson)

02/11/10 Agenda

Full Meeting

New directions for PAGC

1. Ways to collect and work on suggestions from students in CPPA
2. More ways to reach out to incoming new students
3. Other new ideas?

Presentation Ideas

1. World Wildlife Fund Presenters – Taylor Ricketts or Emily McKenzie
2. National Priorities Project Presenter - Christopher Hellman
3. Student Presentation Series
4. Other ideas for speakers?

Community Service project ideas

Fundraising ideas

Anything else?

Committees

Social/Community Service -

• Plan some fun stuff!
• Ice-skating
• Movie Night
• Bowling
• Mini-golf
• End of semester barbeque
• Sporting event of some kind
• Plan some community stuff!

Events -

• Student Presentation Series
• World Wildlife Fund Potential Speakers

Fundraising -

• Process for seeking grant funding from Graduate Student Senate (GSS)
• Fundraiser ideas
• Reusable shopping bags
• Raffle tickets at a sporting event

CPPA Slammers play hard, falter in end

The Slammers battled through their first (and only) play-off game this past Wednesday. Matched with the most organized opponent yet, the Slammers gave it their all. There were some amazing saves and excellent teamwork. A great game to end the amazing season! Congratulations on a great season, Slammers!

CPPA Slammers Victorious!

Tonight, the CPPA-PAGC Intramural Volleyball team (affectionately known as the Slammers) catapulted themselves to a 3 in 1 record and a spot in the playoffs. This evening's match was the most exciting yet. Three hard matches with amazing saves, crushing serves, and positive attitudes galore! Way to go Slammers!

Puja published!

I'm excited to announce that our very own Puja Jain was published this summer in AngloFiles, a publication of the Danish Association of Teachers of English. The article is entitled, "The Girl Child- Reclaiming the Future and Seeking Education, Out of Child Labour - the India Case." Congrats Puja!

Summer pics!

Here are some pictures people took during their adventures this summer!

From Puja:

These pics are from a field visit for a project on Child Domestic Work in India--we visited the areas which acted as the primary source areas for the female child domestic workers, who are often trafficked into cities with promises of a good pay, clothes, food and salary but are beaten, poorly fed, sexually harassed/abused and often trafficked into prostitution---they also go missing as most of these children are too young to remember their village name and which district they are from (there are billions of small hamlets/villages and it is difficult to know the name of a village/hamlet and locate it geographically) and go missing coz they lose touch with their parents (and at times, traffickers ensure that they lose touch)...These are some of the rescued/repatriated children who were brought back from to their homes by Save the Children and its partners, some villagers who are working voluntarily on educating these children in a coaching centre run by Save the Children and its partner KJKS in that particluar village.

And of course...the engagement pictures

Minako:

These are the pictures of Middle East Peace Initiative Meeting, which Anna and I attended on August 5 and 6. Peace Development Fund invited us to Monmouth University, NJ and we made a presentation of the policy analysis that we did in John's class. The meeting was great, and it was also good to spend some time in Woodrow Wilson's summer house (Monmouth Univ owns it now).

Elena:

Josh:

In a line-up at the San Francisco Hall of Justice.

On the green roof at the California Academy of Sciences.

View of the city from Angel Island.


Tricia, Shantel and Anna at the 4th of July in D.C.:

Welcome class of 2011! Upcoming Fall Events!

As we wrap up our summer internships, all of us at PAGC are looking forward to a new year at CPPA and to meeting the new incoming students! In addition to the regular CPPA activities, PAGC will be hosting some fun social events in September so that we can welcome the new students in true UMass-syle.

Mark your calendar for the following:

Saturday, September 12th - PAGC Welcome BBQ to be held in downtown Amherst (location and time to be disclosed privately to CPPA students)

Thursday September 17th - PAGC dinner in Northampton at The Brewery (the oldest operating Brewpub in New England!)

Saturday September 19th - PAGC Hike (location and time TBA)

Tuesday September 22nd - PAGC Trivia Night at the Harp (9pm). Come early to help secure tables!

Looking forward to seeing the 2nd years and meeting the 1st years!

End of Year BBQ success!

Happy Summer!











CPPA students, faculty and family had a 6 hour long BBQ extravaganza at Look Park in Northampton on May 16th as a fun end to the academic year. After the graduating second years had successfully presented their capstones on May 13th and 14th, everyone was excited to relax.

Ryan and John were our Master Grillers, and a few fun games of volleyball, frisbee and competitive hula-hooping were followed by a miraculous tree-balloon rescue. Thanks to everyone who came - it was a great time!