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Justin Vélez-Hagan on Puerto Rico's debt

Justin Vélez-Hagan, Public Policy Ph.D. student, and Executive Director of the National Puerto Rican Chamber of Commerce, discussed the Puerto Rican debt crisis on Al Jazeera English on July 13,...

Posted: July 28, 2015, 3:48 PM

CFP: National Language Policy and Multilingual Education

First International Conference

The Inaugural International Conference on National Language Policy and Multilingual Education February 7-9, 2016 Mandalay, Myanmar As part of the UNICEF/University of Melbourne Language,...

Posted: July 20, 2015, 10:12 PM

AMST 630 Cultural Policy - Course Fall '15

Instructor: James Counts Early

This course, constructed around proactive student-participation, examines the historical backdrop and contemporary development of cultural policy in the United States, especially in relation to...

Posted: May 25, 2015, 7:37 PM

Course offer for Fall '15: LLC 672 Bilingualism

Instructor: Dr. Sarah Shin

LLC 672 Bilingualism This course deals with the ways in which people use two or more languages in everyday life, and begins with an overview of a broad range of social and political issues that...

Posted: April 30, 2015, 4:22 PM

Course offer for Fall '15: AMST 630 Cultural Policy

Instructor: James Counts Early

This course, constructed around proactive student-participation, examines the historical backdrop and contemporary development of cultural policy in the United States, especially in relation to...

Posted: April 26, 2015, 10:27 PM

Cheryl Camillo selected for Fulbright Award

Will study population health in Canada

Public Policy PhD student Cheryl Camillo has been selected for a Fulbright award to carry out her dissertation work comparing approaches to monitoring population health. She will spend nine months...

Posted: April 2, 2015, 2:30 PM

Why study public policy?

Read this Baltimore Sun op-ed by Donald F. Norris

As we celebrate 40 years of public policy graduate studies at UMBC, Don Norris explains the importance of our program to the State, and why we need public policy leaders as much as we need...

Posted: November 25, 2014, 1:48 PM

Public Policy student poster takes first place at APPAM

A poster, "Obtaining Experimental Evidence Regarding the Effectiveness of Interventions Intended to Support the Success of Freshman STEM Undergraduates," presented by Public Policy doctoral...

Posted: November 17, 2014, 4:07 PM