UCF graduates have an opportunity to help homeless children in Seminole and Orange counties through a new program hosted by the Center for Public and Nonprofit Management.
UCF graduate students learned first-hand how philanthropic organizations select programs to fund in a unique service-learning course taught this spring by Stephanie Loudermilk Krick, director of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance at UCF.
Four county managers -- Howard Tipton in Brevard County, Darren Gray in Lake
County, Don Fisher in Osceola County and Jim Hartmann in Seminole County --
learned the fundamentals of local government management as students in UCF's
public administration programs. Today, they are responsible for providing vital
services to more than 1.5 million people in the four-county area.
Ms. Tishia Jewell, a student in our MPA/MNM Dual Degree program, is among the UCF recipients of the prestigious Conference USA Academic Medal, an honor awarded to student-athletes with a cumulative GPA of 3.75 or above.
An assessment tool to help rural communities determine gaps in their
preparedness planning before a disaster strikes and other findings from a
national study will be shared during the “Building Disaster Resiliency and
Sustainability” conference on Friday, March 30, at the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center.
- The School of Public Administration has two programs nationally ranked by the U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools. Continuing its ongoing ranking, the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program moved up from 90th position to 59th position. The Master of Nonprofit Management (MNM) program ranked in the 25th position. Congratulations to these two exceptional programs!
Learn the story of public administration from Professor Peter Colby and three alumni of UCF's public administration programs.
UCF Urban and Regional Planning Distinguished Lecture Series Presentations, produced by Orange TV:
