MASTER OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Student Association (MPASA)

Officially granted registered student organization (RSO) status in October of 2008, the Masters of Public Administration Student Association (MPASA) was founded by a group of University of Central Florida (UCF) graduate students with the desire to enhance the graduate experience for masters* candidates of the degree programs offered by the Department of Public Administration. These students noticed a void of graduate programming, encouragement of public service, as well as student professional and social networking that needed to be filled and decided to take the active steps to fill it. With the firm support of the Department of Public Administration, MPASA was created in order to fill that void by promoting the virtue of public service, fostering closer ties between students and public sector agencies and facilitating discourse among students and administrators concerning the future and direction of UCF's Department of Public Administration graduate programs.   Learn more . . .

Website: www.mpasaatucf.weebly.com

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The objectives of MPASA are:

To foster the virtue of public service among members.

To mobilize students throughout the Public Administration graduate programs and certificates so that they have a voice in departmental affairs.

To arrange and facilitate professional networking opportunities for members.

To bring field-relevant practitioners to the university to share their real life knowledge with members.

To arrange social networking opportunities for members to build lasting peer-to-peer relationships.

To encourage academic and professional development among members.

To take members to different state, local and federal agencies so that they may see firsthand how our government works.

To partner with other like-minded organizations to provide further opportunities to our members, this includes the undergraduate Organization for Public Administrators (OPA) as well as Central Florida’s chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), among others.