UTK MPPA

Join the UT-ICMA Student Chapter today at 4 PM for an excellent opportunity to discuss professional networking! Special Guests Dr. Katie Cahill, Associate Director of the Baker Center, and MPPA Alum Candice Gilreath, City Administrator of Pitman Center, TN will be sharing advice on how to develop and employ a network of professional contacts to assist you as you advance in your career. This is a great opportunity for all of our MPPA students and we highly encourage you to take advantage of it!

Zoom: https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/97412693258

Today's the day! Don't forget to join us for this great opportunity -this afternoon at 3:00. Zoom Link in bio!

Calling all recent and upcoming graduates! On Wednesday, March 10th at 3:00PM, our UTK ICMA Student Chapter will be hosting a virtual resume and interviewing roundtable. With panelists representing city and county governments as well as a recent graduate, this is an excellent opportunity to shape up your resume, get questions answered about nailing your interviews, and prepare for the post-grad job hunt! Link will be in bio on the day of the event. We hope to see you there!
ICMA - International City/County Management Association

Please join us for a virtual Baker Café forum on The Future of Policing in America with Joe Jarret. This timely event will focus on the future of policing and the changes that must be made to create a culture of mutual trust between police and the communities they serve. The virtual forum will take place on February 19th at 10 - 11 AM. We hope to see you there!

Please join us in congratulating our very own Ms. Candice Gilreath, a Spring 2020 MPPA graduate, for her appointment as Town Administrator of Pittman Center, TN! Starting on February 16th, Candice will be putting her talents and best efforts forward to serve this East Tennessee community. While a student in the MPPA program, Candice served as the President of the UT Chapter of the ICMA and led a group of student volunteers to work at the annual ICMA meeting in Nashville in 2019. This is an excellent opportunity in local government management and we know Ms. Gilreath will thrive in this position. Again, congratulations and Go Vols!

We are so proud of the work our MPPA students are doing here at the Howard Baker Center for Public Policy. Thank you to Dr. Ezzell and all the MPPA professors who give students the opportunity to engage in projects that have a real impact on our neighbors all across the state. Shoutout to Ezzell’s Sustainable Communities class for their creative solutions in the education, infrastructure, and public health areas of government! Read the whole story at our link in the bio and be sure to follow for an update on how these projects are going!

Don't miss this opportunity to hear from some outstanding community leaders in a panel discussion hosted by UT's ICMA chapter!

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Despite tremendous advances in meteorological observations, knowledge, and forecasts, people still experience significant harm to life, property, and well-being due to tornadoes. Reducing these negative effects in part requires better understanding what people think and do when there is a tornado risk. This presentation will discuss research efforts to investigate people’s tornado risk perceptions and responses through the conceptual lens of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

As part of the Howard Baker Center's Energy and Environment Forum, co-hosted by the Arts & Sciences, Dr. Julie Demuth from the National Center for Atmospheric Research in the Weather Risks and Decisions Society will discuss this topic in greater detail.

This event is free and open to the public. Guests may park in the Vol Hall Garage at no cost by requesting a voucher from the Baker Center staff at the event.

Join us in congratulating Dr. Brian An, the MPPA program's newest Assistant Professor and 2020 winner of the prestigious Donald C. Stone Best Student Paper award presented by the American Society for Public Administration's (ASPA) Section on Intergovernmental Administration and Management (SIAM). Written and presented while still a student at the University of Southern California in 2019, his paper was recognized as the best work on federalism and intergovernmental relations during that year. Feel free to contact Professor An to get your own copy of "Bottom-Up Special Districts as Community Governance Model: Assessing Their Impacts and Processes."

Join us in the Toyota Auditorium tomorrow to learn more about the impacts of the Coronavirus here in Tennessee. Special guests will be joining us as well!
Stevie Hayes : DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
Susan Lawrence : UTK Department of History
Charity Menefee : Knox County Health Department
Mark Rasnake : UT Medical Center

Students and Recent Grads! --->
"We'd like to reiterate that this is a great opportunity for recent college graduates and young professionals, CivicSpark is a Governor’s Initiative AmeriCorps program dedicated to building capacity for local governments to address resilience issues such as climate change, water management, housing, and mobility. We're currently recruiting 90 recent graduates, young professionals or people who are interested in gaining professional experience and developing technical skills while creating a meaningful and lasting impact on their service community."
Francisco Olguín, Civic Spark Project Coordinator