{"id":1708,"date":"2015-12-25T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-25T23:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2015-12-26T18:14:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-26T18:14:11","slug":"ppad-graduate-student-publication-as-a-guest-columnist-for-the-clarion-ledger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2015\/12\/25\/ppad-graduate-student-publication-as-a-guest-columnist-for-the-clarion-ledger\/","title":{"rendered":"A PPAD Graduate Student published his essay as guest columnist for the Clarion-Ledger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/12\/Coates_1.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Coates_1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1709 alignleft\" height=\"125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/12\/Coates_1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"\" width=\"145\" \/><\/a><strong>Mr. Cetric Coates<\/strong> (MPPA student) has published his thoughts of&nbsp;economic development for the <strong>City of Jackson<\/strong>, as a guest columnist for <span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">the Mississippi&#039;s leading newspaper,&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">Clarion-Ledger<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">&nbsp;on&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">December 23, 2015. &nbsp;<\/strong>In his&nbsp;essay (&quot;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionledger.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2015\/12\/23\/coates-can-jackson-bounce-back\/77832686\/\">Can Jackson bounce back<\/a>?<\/strong>&quot;) ,&nbsp;<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">he demonstrated his understanding of public policy, and explored his role as a policy scientist for community development.&nbsp;He&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">emphasized&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">the importance of infrastructure building and examined the issue of financing infrastructure projects. &nbsp;He has been conducting&nbsp;his research on infrastructure building for the&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">City of Jackson<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">,<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">&nbsp;by&nbsp;taking&nbsp;PPAD &nbsp;586\/786 &nbsp;Urban problems &amp; non-traditional options in Spring 2015, and &nbsp;PPAD &nbsp;712 Urban management and urban services in Fall 2015 continuously&nbsp;(Instructor: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/faculty-and-staff\/\">Dr.&nbsp;Jae-Young Ko<\/a>). His prior research was presented for the &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2015\/04\/24\/the-jsu-public-policy-student-symposium-spring-2015\/\">2015 Spring &nbsp;JSU Public Policy Student Symposium on April 23, 2015<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">&nbsp;His outstanding research work was recognized as the third&nbsp;place for the <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">MPPA <\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">division.&nbsp;<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Attached is his essay in PDF (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2015\/12\/Coates_-Can-Jackson-bounce-back_.pdf\" style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Coates_ Can Jackson bounce back_<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">).&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Congratulations, <\/span><strong style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">Mr. Coates<\/strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.6em\">. Job well-done!&nbsp; We are so&nbsp;proud of you!!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Cetric Coates (MPPA student) has published his thoughts of&nbsp;economic development for the City of Jackson, as a guest columnist for the Mississippi&#039;s leading newspaper,&nbsp;Clarion-Ledger&nbsp;on&nbsp;December 23, 2015. &nbsp;In his&nbsp;essay (&quot;Can Jackson bounce back?&quot;) ,&nbsp;he demonstrated his understanding of public policy, and explored his role as a policy scientist for community development.&nbsp;He&nbsp;emphasized&nbsp;the importance of infrastructure building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1721,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/1721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}