Below you will find updates for this week:
WELCOME BACK HAPPY HOUR: To get everyone back into the spirit of the academic semester, SAPA will be hosting a happy hour on Thursday, February 7th @ 6:00PM at MoJo Main (270 East Main Street Newark, DE 19711). Appetizers will be served, and the event will be free. Please invite fellow SPPA undergraduate and graduate students out for good food and good times!
SAPA GENERAL MEETINGS: SAPA’s Executive Board has decided to hold SAPA General Meetings on stagger days- of-the-week (Mondays / Thursdays). Spring Semester general meetings will be held @5:30PM. Meeting dates this semester are: Monday, February 11th; Thursday, March 7th; Monday, April 8th; and Thursday, May 2nd.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO STAFF POLICY SOLUTIONS COMPETITION: Dr. Sarzynski, SPPA professor and faculty coach for SPPA’s Policy Solutions Challenge Team, needs volunteers on Friday, February 15th and Saturday, February 16th from 8AM to 1:30PM to staff the Mid-Atlantic Region’s Policy Solutions Challenge USA Competition. Volunteers would be required to staff a welcome table, register competition attendees, help with set-up, or direct out of town teams. If interested, please contact Andrea Sarzynski at apsarzyn@udel.edu or 302-831-1244.
MID-ATLANTIC REGION’S POLICY SOLUTIONS CHALLENGE USA COMPETITION: Come out and support your fellow classmates and School as they complete against nearby schools in this year’s Regional Mid-Atlantic Policy Solution Challenge USA competition! This year, the School of Public Policy and Administration has the privilege of as serving as the Mid-Atlantic Host of the Policy Solution Challenge USA Competition, a national competition among teams of students from U.S. schools of public policy, public affairs and public administration to develop innovative solutions to the most important policy problems facing the country. The topic for the 2013 Challenge is ‘Responses to Childhood Obesity in the U.S.‘.
The competition will be held in the Rodney Room of the Perkins Student Center (325 Academy Street, Newark, Delaware) on Saturday, February 16th. Coffee and registration will be available at 8:30AM, and presentations will begin at 9AM. Lunch will also be served, and the event will convene by early afternoon. Please RSVP to Diana Simmons (dwalls@udel.edu or 302-831-1687) by Friday, February 8th, so we can get an accurate count for lunch. Address questions about the Competition to Andrea Sarzynski (apsarzyn@udel.edu or 302-831-1244).
Thanks.
SAPA Board
