{"id":2227,"date":"2016-04-14T02:38:48","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T02:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=2227"},"modified":"2016-04-14T14:48:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T14:48:21","slug":"an-innovative-way-of-teaching-ppad-596","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2016\/04\/14\/an-innovative-way-of-teaching-ppad-596\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative way of teaching: PPAD 596 Research methods for public managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/02\/slack_3.jpg\" rel=\"\" target=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"slack_3\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2022 alignleft\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/02\/slack_3-150x150.jpg\" style=\"margin: 5px\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/02\/slack_3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/02\/slack_3-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/02\/slack_3.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><strong>Professor Slack<\/strong> conducted&nbsp;an inovative way of teaching for <strong>PPAD 596, Research Methods for Public Managers<\/strong> this semester. &nbsp;Dr. Slack assigned&nbsp;students to a &quot;consulting&quot; group. For the entire semester, the students are expected to prepare a proposal that ultimately is presented to a mock city council. <span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">This semester, under a scenario:&nbsp;The (fictional) Jackson city council&#039;s &quot;Infrastructure and Community Assessment Committee&quot;&nbsp;issued an RFP to consulting groups nationally. It sought proposals that would effectively utilize a grant from the White House (fictional) &quot;Infrastructure and Community Improvement Initiative.&quot; The task of each consulting group was to&nbsp;demonstrate in detail (1) a&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">need<\/u><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">&nbsp;in the area of &quot;infrastructure and community;&quot; (2)&nbsp;how the&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">need<\/u><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">&nbsp;would be evaluated; (3)&nbsp;a project to&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">remedy<\/u><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">&nbsp;the need; and (4)&nbsp;how the&nbsp;<\/span><u style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">remedy<\/u><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 20.8px\">&nbsp;would be measured. The presentation event was held on April 13, 2016.&nbsp;PPAD 596, Research Methods for Public Managers, is offered by Dr. Slack during the Fall and Spring semesters. &nbsp;For the details, please check the dept FACEBOOK page,&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jacksoncompa16\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jacksoncompa16<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1631.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_1631\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2231\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1631-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1631-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1631.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1634.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IMG_1634\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2233\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1634-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1634-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/files\/2016\/04\/IMG_1634.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Slack conducted&nbsp;an inovative way of teaching for PPAD 596, Research Methods for Public Managers this semester. &nbsp;Dr. Slack assigned&nbsp;students to a &quot;consulting&quot; group. For the entire semester, the students are expected to prepare a proposal that ultimately is presented to a mock city council. This semester, under a scenario:&nbsp;The (fictional) Jackson city council&#039;s &quot;Infrastructure [&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\/2227"}],"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=2227"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2236,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2227\/revisions\/2236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}