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APPAM Spring Conference
  • The 2008 APPAM Spring Conference will be held on 5 April 2008 in Washington, DC . To access the main page for the conference please click here.

In contrast to the much larger Fall Research Conference, APPAM's annual Spring Conference has been an intimate gathering of leaders within the policy analysis and management field. Usually devoted to topics of interest to public policy educators, the Spring Conferences since 1986 mostly have explored issues of concerns to APPAM's member institutions. Occasionally, the conference has focused on specific research topics. In its earlier years the spring conference was hosted at various sites around the United States. Since 1993 the conference mostly has been held in the Washington, DC, area.

Summary of APPAM Spring Conferences, 1986 - 2007
 Year
  Spring Conference Theme/Focus
1986

1988*
1990
1991

1992
1993

1994

1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002


2003

2004

2005
2006

2007


Inaugural spring conference. No specific theme. Conference was focused on the curriculum in public policy graduate schools.
No specific theme. Conference was devoted to envisioning the future of APPAM.
"Public Policy and Management Curriculum: Academic Content and Practical Knowledge"
No specific theme. Major session on "Global Economic Interdependence: Implications for Public Policy Research and Education."
"Journalists and Policy Analysts: How to Develop a Policy Analytic Framework for Journalists"
"Increasing Diversity in the Public Policy Process" (funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation; part of the restructuring of the Public Policy and International Affairs Program).
No specific theme. Sessions examined diversity issues in case writing and curriculum development in policy education, and enhancing communication between academic researchers and policy practitioners.
"Innovations in Practice and Teaching"
"The Changing Policy Landscape: The Challenges to Curriculum and the Practice of Policy Analysis"
"Civic Engagement and Undergraduate Public Policy Education"
"Census 2000: Implications for Policy and Practice"
"After Affirmative Action: Practical Strategies for Assuring Equal Opportunity"
"APPAM in the 21st Century: Where Are We? Where Are We Going?"
"Public Policy Education in the New Economy: Outreach, Careers, Technology and Globalization"
No conference held. APPAM's Policy Council held a full-day retreat to consider the Association's mission. APPAM's Institutional Representatives held a special meeting on ranking systems for master's programs in public policy and management.
No conference held. APPAM's Institutional Representatives met to discuss their role in the Association and announced the intention to resume holding the Spring Conference beginning in 2004.
No specific theme. Three sessions examined "soft skills" in the MPP curriculum, the design and management of client-oriented project courses, and the structure of the Ph.D. in public policy curriculum.
"Globalizing Public Policy Education and Research"
"Charting the Next Twenty Years of Public Policy and Management Education" (Special, multi-day conference held in Park City, Utah, in honor of the 20th anniversary of the 1986 conference)
No specific theme. One track was a multi-association summit on faculty diversity in the social sciences, and the second track was a planning session for conducting research on how pedagogy influences learning outcomes in public policy and management education.

*Information on the 1987 and 1989 Spring Conferences currently is unavailable.



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