About Us: CPAP Events
High Table 2009
April 2-4 CPAP celebrated its annual High Table event. This year's featured lecturer, Syracuse University's Professor Rosemary O'Leary, challenged and engaged participants with her work on Guerilla Government. Click here for photos of the event, featuring CPAP students, alumni, faculty, staff, family, and friends.
GRADUATION CELEBRATION: CPAP RICHMOND
On Tuesday, June 9, CPAP Richmond will host a reception for students graduating from the MPA program. We hope to see Students, alumni, family and friends to celebrate this important occasion.
Graduation Event:
Tuesday, June 9 from 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Virginia Tech Richmond Center, 2810 N. Parham Rd #300
CPAP Information Sessions
The School of Public and Information Affairs (SPIA) will host information sessions on their Master’s and Doctoral programs in public administration and policy.
- Click here for a downloadable pdf on upcoming events.
- Click here for our current calendar.
Praxis
In 1997 the CPAP faculty persuaded students and alumni at the Northern Virginia campus to organize what is known as "Capital Praxis". The vision was to draw upon the rich administrative and policy experience of students and alumni working in the Washington, DC area to provide students in Blacksburg exposure to the daily activities of administrative and policy-related organizations. In addition, Praxis was to provide an annual event, similar to CPAP’s High Table, to bring together students, alumni, and faculty from both Blacksburg and Alexandria to meet and greet, and to highlight the synergies between theory and practice in public administration and policy. CPAP alumni and students have provided the energy, drive and focus needed to bring these two objectives to fruition with the support of graduate assistants, faculty and staff.
At the core of the Capital Praxis are one-day (Friday) workplace shadowing experiences for each of the Blacksburg graduate students. These shadowing experiences have included local law enforcement, National Cabinet level agencies, county social service agencies, city government, private consulting firms and non-profits. The Shadow Debrief is held at CPAP on Saturday morning, followed by the CPAP Round Table on Leadership and Administration...more
Regulatory Symposium
A Public Administration Moment: Forging an Agenda for Financial Regulatory Reform
Friday, January 23, 2009, 10am - 2pm
A Public Administration Moment: Forging an Agenda for Financial Regulatory Reform will provide a cutting-edge discussion, highlighting the public administration challenges of principle, design, method, management that should guide financial regulatory reform. The devil is in the details, and the details of financial regulatory reform need attention.
This two-part symposium brings together a panel of accomplished scholars --contributing to a forum on the financial crisis to be published in Public Administration Review -- and a response panel of distinguished scholars and National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Fellows, in order to generate an agenda for public administration scholarship and practice.
For registration and additional information contact Emily Cuykendall, ecuyken@vt.edu.
Sponsored by the Smith Richardson Foundation, with support from Virginia Tech National Capital Region, and Virginia Tech’s School for Public and International Affairs.