Past News & Events

2008

May 1 - UAP Toast & Roast in Alexandria

April 16 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series: TBA

April 10 & 11 - Center for Public Administration and Policy's Second Year MPA Student Conference Presentations:
Thursday, April 10 (GLC ROOM B)
8:00am - 8:45am: Craig Bryant – Quality Management Process for Salem Fire and Emergency Medical Services
8:50am - 9:35am: Nick Benne – The Advantages of Capital Improvement Programming
12:10pm - 12:55pm: Whitney Bonham – From the Inside Forward: Formative Program Evaluation and Municipal Infrastructure Planning
1:00pm - 1:45pm: Amanda Paez - Local Government Performance Management: Creating a Link between Budget and Service Provision in Montgomery County, Virginia
Friday, April 11 (GLC ROOM B)
8:00am - 8:45am: Amanda Veazey – Nonprofit Governance and Fiscal Accountability
8:45am - 9:30am: Matt Rowe – Open for Business: The Creation of Smyth County’s Local Enterprise Zone
9:30am - 10:15am: Jay Jennings – The Virginia Constitutional Officer 
10:15am - 11:00am:  Barbara McCarthy- U.S. National Security Policy Formulation: From Theory to Reality
11:00am - 11:45am: Jennifer Hass – Interest Group Formation: A Look at Why an Organization’s Efforts Failed in Establishing an Interest Group
11:45am - 12:30pm: Lunch Break
12:30pm - 1:15pm:  Chris DaVault – Block Scheduling and its Impact on Ramstien Middle School’s Performance on Standardized Tests
1:15pm - 2:00pm: Elizabeth Hooper – Running with the PAC: Influence and Accountability in Political Action Committees

April 9 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series: 1808-1908-2008: National Planning for America
Robert Fishman, University of Michigan

March 28-29 - CPAP High Table

March 26 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series:Immigration and American Cities: Opportunities and Challenges
Richard Martinez, University of Minnesota

February 27 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series:
TBA

January 30 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series:
Suzanne Morse, President of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change

2007

December 6 - 6:00-8:00pm - Master of Urban and Regional Planning 50th Anniversary Celebration Reception will be held at Arlington Economic Development, 1100 N. Glebe Road, Suite 1500, Arlington, Virginia. In conjunction with the event on October 26 in Blacksburg - all alumni and friends are welcome to attend one or both celebrations.

November 28 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series: The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream. Chris Leinberger, The Brookings Institution, University Of Michigan Real Estate Program and Arcadia Land Co.

November 2-3
CPAP Praxis, Alexandria
CPAP Round Table on Leadership and Administration

October 26 - 7:00-9:00pm - Master of Urban and Regional Planning 50th Anniversary Celebration Reception at the Inn at Virginia Tech, Latham Ballroom D, E, & F, (RSVP by October 25 to Jan Wilson: wilsonje@vt.edu or call 540-231-1486). In conjunction with the event on December 6 in Alexandria - all alumni and friends are welcome to attend one or both celebrations.

October 24 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series: Local Government Land Use Autonomy: Myths and Realities about Building the New Metropolis. Jesse Richardson, Associate Professor and Chair of UAP, Virginia Tech

October 23 - 2-4:00pm, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute Auditorium: Rebecca Flora will deliver a keynote speech during Sustainability Week, October 22-27. Ms. Flora, a UAP MURP alum, is president of the Green Building Alliance and chair-elect of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC, aka LEED).

September 26 - part of the New Metropolis Lecture series: Asset-based development: Capturing Community Strength and Opportunity in Urban Markets
Ryan Gerety, Associate Director, Research, Social Compact
Carolina Valencia, PhD, Associate Director, Research, Social Compact

September 7-8 - SPIA Faculty Retreat

August 29, 7 pm to 9 pm, Virginia Tech’s Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314, Main Conference Room, 3rd floor
part of the New Metropolis Lecture series:
The Dollars and Sense of Sustainable Development
Ed McMahon, Senior Resident Fellow at the Urban Land Institute
The lecture is free and open to the public and there is no need to register. Wine and cheese will be served.
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For more information, past lectures and schedule, visit our website: http://www.nvc.vt.edu/uap/curriculum_main.asp?sectionid=47&pageid=311&pagename=Podcasting
About the presentation:
Sustainable development--thinking about what is good for the environment first and using resources to ensure that future generations will equitably share in the world's resource wealth--is also cost-effective.  This presentation will present the economic, social and environmental benefits of green and sustainable development, including historic preservation. It will also examine some of the key trends and issues in metropolitan land use today.  Ed McMahon is a Senior Resident Fellow holding the Charles Fraser Chair on Sustainable Development at the Urban Land Institute.  He is a nationally known speaker and author on topics related to sustainable development, land conservation, and urban design.  Prior to joining the Urban Land Institute, Ed was Vice President and Director of Land Use Planning at The Conservation Fund and co-founder and former President of Scenic America.  He has co-authored 15 books, including Green Infrastructure and Better Models for Development in Virginia, and has written more than 150 articles.  He has an M.A. in Urban Studies from the University of Alabama and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law School.

April 25 - 7-9:00pm - William Millar, President of the American Public Transportation Association, The Future of Transit in the U.S., VT Faculty: Tom Sanchez (part of the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech, lecture will be held at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street.) Podcast...

April 12 - 4:00pm - SPIA Awards Reception, L'Arche B&B, Otey Street.

March 28 - 7-9:00pm - Peter Katz, author of The New Urbanism; Toward an Architecture of Community The New Revolution: Form-based Codes, VT Faculty: Chris Nelson (part of the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech, lecture will be held at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street.) Podcast...

February 21 - 7-9:00pm - Daphne Spain, James M. Page Professor and Chair, Department of Urban and Environmental Planning, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, Retirement Communities and their implications for planning, VT Faculty: Heike Mayer (part of the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech, lecture will be held at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street.) Lecture sponsored by Virginia Tech’s Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series. Podcast...

January 31, 2007- 7-9:00pm - Bruce Beard, Assistant Director for Environmental Readiness Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Installations and Environment), Linking Landscapes—Linking Mission?, VT Faculty: Joe Schilling (part of the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech, lecture will be held at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street.) Podcast...

January 26, 2007- 12:00pm - CPAP's 1st Roundtable Discussion of the Spring semester kicks off with Dr. John Dickey from Center for Public Administration and Policy. His topic is entitled: Advances in the Public Administration Genome Project. Please come during a lunch break or free time for an hour discussion and conversation with fellow colleagues and guest speaker Dr. John Dickey.

2006

December 1, 2006- 1:00pm, Graduate Life Center Room B, Wilma Dunaway, Professor, Government and International Affairs, will present "'The Shrimp Eat Better Than We Do’: Philippine Fishing Households Sacrificed for the Global Food Chain". More info...

November 29, 2006 - Paul Knox, University Distinguished Professor, Virginia Tech, Vulgaria: Material Consumption and the Built Environment in the New Metropolis, VT Faculty: Heike Mayer (part of the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech, lecture will be held at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street.) Podcast...

November 1, 2006 - Marie Howland, Professor, University of Maryland, Urban Development Challenges and Accomplishments in Post Soviet St. Petersburg, Russia, VT Faculty: Heike Mayer (part of the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech, lecture will be held at Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center, 1021 Prince Street.) Podcast...

October 28, 2006, 10:30am, CPAP in Alexandria: The CPAP Round Table on Leadership and Administration - "Leadership in the Information Age." More info...
At the Table: Lt. General Walter F. Ulmer, U.S. Army (Ret.), Retired President and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership, and Dr. T. Owen Jacobs, Co-Founder and Partner, Executive Development Associates, LLC, Former Leo Cherne Visiting Professor of Behavioral Science, ICAF, National Defense University.
Moderated by: Dr. Colleen Woodard, Visiting Professor, Center for Public Administration and Policy
The CPAP Round Table brings a leading scholar and innovative practitioner to the table for insightful and thoughtful conversation with students, members of academia, public managers, and participants from the nonprofit and private sector to exchange ideas, share research and experience, and advance our knowledge and understanding of leadership in public administration.

October 19, 2006, 4:00pm, AA114 - Masters International Program Speaker Series presents: "Under the Volcano: Two Years in El Salvadore" by Rebecca Paskos, MURP candidate and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. More info...

October 4, 2006, 7-9:00pm, Virginia Tech's Alexandria Center (1021 Prince Street, Main Conference Room, 3rd Floor), the New Metropolis Lecture Series @ Virginia Tech presents: "Energy and the New Metropolis: Prospects for Sustainability?" by John Randolph, Professor, Urban Affairs and Planning Program at Virginia Tech.
A key determinant of future metropolitan growth and development is energy. Already analysts are asking “Could Rising Gas Prices Kill the Suburbs?” But energy constraints are likely to go beyond the price of gas and oil as growing demand for electricity and growing carbon emissions must be reconciled. This presentation outlines some of the emerging energy constraints that will affect metropolitan development. It then focuses on some of the prospective improvements in building and vehicle technologies, land use patterns, distributed generation, and government policies for more sustainable energy systems in the New Metropolis. 
John Randolph is a professor of environmental planning in Virginia Tech’s Urban Affairs and Planning Program.  He is also Director of Virginia Tech’s School of Public and International Affairs.  Randolph is the author of the book Environmental Land Use Planning and Management published in 2004 by Island Press.  He received the 2006 William R. and June Dale Prize for Excellence in Urban and Regional Planning presented at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; the 1991 Virginia Energy Award for his Evaluation of the Virginia Weatherization Program; and the 1984 University Certificate of Teaching Excellence. For more information, please contact: Heike Mayer, heikem@vt.edu.

September 22, 2006 from 1:30-3:00 pm in Brush Mountain A Room, Squires Student Center - SPIA's Nonprofit and Civil Society Program fall speaker's series featuring Professor Arthur Brooks, Director of the Nonprofit Studies Program of the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. Dr. Brooks will speak to some of his latest research concerning the nexus of religious belief and social capital. More info...

September 14, 2006, 4-5:30, Room C at the Graduate Life Center, MURP alumnus Douglas Appler will be discussing planning in George Madison county Georgia. He is currently the county director of planning and zoning. More Info...

2005

October 14, 2005- " Redefining Cities and Suburbs: Exploring America's New Metropolis" - Robert Lang, Director of the Metropolitan Institute at Virginia Tech. 4:00-5:30pm at Squires Student Center Room 116. More info...

October 21, 2005 - WHAT WAS FEMA SUPPOSED TO DO? WHAT SHOULD FEMA DO NOW? - 12:30-2:00pm - Thomas Conner House ( 104 Draper Road ), Waldo Seminar Room. The Center for Public Administration & Policy will host a Brown Bag Round Table discussion with Dr. Gary Wamsley - “The Rise and Fall of FEMA in the Wake of Katrina.” Bring your lunch and enjoy a lively discussion with a question and answer period afterward.

New Graduate Fellows Program
The School of Public and International Affairs announces two new graduate fellowships in public and nonprofit financial management to begin in fall 2005. More info...

Gerard Toal testified before Congress, Europe Subcommittee, House International Relations Committee on April 6, 2005, on ‘Bosnia: Unfinished Business.'

Panel Discussion - "Blurred Boundaries: the Changing Nature of Nonprofits" - February 15, 3:30pm, Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center, Conference Room A
** Panel Participants: Janaka Casper, Executive Director of Community Housing Partners Corporation and Ted Koebel, Board Chair of CHPC and UAP Professor at Virginia Tech.
** Community Housing Parterns Corporation (CHPC) is a locally based nonprofit housing and community development organization that has been in existence for over 25 years and has grown into a multimillion dollar operation serving communities up and down the east coast in many different capacities. The panel discussion will focus on the challenges and opportunties that CHPC has faced over the years in adapting to a constantly shifting goverment policy and funding context. We will learn about the particular pressures to which the organization has had to respond, as well as the strategies they have devised to survive and thrive.You can learn more about CHPC in advance of the session by checking out their website: http:\\www.communityhousingpartners.org

2004

Dr. Olivier Zunz - October 25, 2004, 4:00-6:00 p.m., Car Barn Conference Room (Rm. 421) (Georgetown University Campus) - " The Political History of Foundation Accountability: The Tax Reform Act of 1969 " (Please RSVP to cdats@georgetown.edu ). Sponsored by the Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (Georgetown) and the Institute for Governance and Accountability (Virginia Tech).
Olivier Zunz is the author of The Changing Face of Inequality (1982), Making America Corporate (1990), and Why the American Century? (1998). He has also edited Reliving the Past (1985) and The Landscape of Modernity (1992), and Social Contracts under Stress (2002), and co-edited The Tocqueville Reader, recently published by Blackwell. Professor Zunz is currently at work on a major history of American philanthropy. He has held visiting appointments at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and Sciences Sociales and the College de France, and is president of the Tocqueville Society.
The Center for Democracy and the Third Sector (CDATS) and The Institute for Governance and Accountabilities (IGA) have established the Inter-University Workshop on Accountability and the Nonprofit Sector to promote innovative research on the impact of an emerging accountability regime on nonprofit institutions. The workshop is co-directed by Professor Steven Heydemann, Director of CDATS, Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, Codirector of IGA, and is open to faculty, students, and interested members of the public from the greater Washington area. This year, the workshop will focus on two broad themes: the internal impacts of new accountability demands on organizational practices within the nonprofit sector; and how nonprofits adapt, accommodate, or resist the emergence of an accountability regime as a defining feature of their broader social, political, and economic environment.

Dr. Norman Myers - October 18, 2004, 8:00 p.m., McBryde 100 - " Our Environmental Prospect: Time of Breakdown or Breakthrough? "

Professor Edward Weber - Brown Bag Session - October 15, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m., Center for Public Administration and Policy, Thomas Conner House, " Out in the Field: Why you don't wear Birkenstocks when conducting field research with ranchers "
Presentation - October 15, 2004, 2:00-3:45 p.m., Squires 341 - " Getting Community Collaboratives Right: The Importance of Institutional Design "
Professor Weber is Director of the Thomas S. Foley Public Policy Institute of Washington State University.

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