{"id":3116,"date":"2019-02-12T14:27:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/?p=3116"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:39:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T14:39:26","slug":"student-participation-for-the-accreditation-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/2019\/02\/12\/student-participation-for-the-accreditation-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Student participation in the Re-accreditation Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tDear MPPA Student<br \/>\n\tThe <strong>Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) Program<\/strong> has been accredited by the&nbsp;National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration since 1978. This accreditation<br \/>\n\tdenotes that we have met professional standards and core competencies in educating students&nbsp;for careers in public services. Programs are reaccredited every seven years. The MPPA Program&nbsp;is up for reaccreditation which includes three major phases: (1) departmental intensive self-assessment or self-study of the MPPA Program in terms of accreditation standards and core&nbsp;competencies, (2) on-site review of the program by a three-member team of academics and&nbsp;practitioners (site visit team), and (3) a reaccreditation decision by the Commission on Peer&nbsp;Review and Accreditation (COPRA).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tWe are currently at the second phase in the review process in which we will host a site-visit. The&nbsp;Site-Visit Team will be here February 17-19, 2019. <strong>The Site Visit Team will meet with all MPPA<br \/>\n\tStudents as a group on Monday, February 18, 2019 from 5:00 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. on the 2nd Floor&nbsp;in Room 210. <\/strong>We strongly encourage your participation in this important student meeting.<br \/>\n\tThe meeting will be followed by <strong>a reception from 6:00 p.m. &#8211; 7:00 p.m.<\/strong> on the first floor which all&nbsp;MPPA students are invited. <strong>Please RSVP by calling 601-979-6358 to let us know if you plan<br \/>\n\tto attend the meeting and\/or reception no later than 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, February 13<\/strong>,&nbsp;2019. Thanking you in advance for your support.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tGloria J. Billingsley, Ph.D.<br \/>\n\tAssociate Professor &amp; MPPA Program Director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear MPPA Student The Master of Public Policy and Administration (MPPA) Program has been accredited by the&nbsp;National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration since 1978. This accreditation denotes that we have met professional standards and core competencies in educating students&nbsp;for careers in public services. Programs are reaccredited every seven years. The MPPA Program&nbsp;is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/3116"}],"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=3116"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3122,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3116\/revisions\/3122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/publicpolicy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}