Auditor of State Mary Taylor guest speaker in 852

On Thursday, November 8th, Auditor of State, Mary Taylor will be a guest speaker in Cathe Armstrong's Governmental Accounting (PUB AFRS 852). Ms. Armstrong is welcoming any other students who might want to attend this special visit.

She will be speaking about her office and the responsibilities of auditing the State and all local governments as well as the differences in auditing governments v. the private sector.

852 meets from 5:30-6:48pm in Page Hall 0010. Please email Cathe Armstrong at carmstrong@uaoh.net if you have any questions.

PPM 810

Several of you have been asking about day section availability for PPM 810. Enrollment for each section is capped at 35 students. If you are able to sign up for the evening section, which is offered by a great instructor, David Wirick, please sign up for that one.

The call number is 18534-6 is offered Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:30 to 8:48pm. More information can be found at http://glennschool.osu.edu/current/courses/ and you can sign up for the class at http://buckeyelink.osu.edu/.

If you are unable to take the evening section, please email me and let me know. Professor Brown is only accepting people from the waitlist if they are unable (not just inconvenienced by) to take the evening section.

Internship/Job Survey

The Student Services staff is always interested in hearing from students about their Glenn School experience. From orientation, to course scheduling, career services, and eventually, graduation, we want to make sure we are doing what we can to prepare you for meaningful careers in public service while also enjoying your time in the halls of Page.

One of the items we are particularly interested in hearing from you about currently are your job and internship experiences while you have been enrolled in the MPA program. For returning MPA students, we want to hear about your summer internships or the school year work positions in which you are currently working. For first year MPA students, we would love to find out which of you are currently working. We would also like to collect a little more information about your internship and career interests so that we can better assist you in finding your “dream job.”

Please take a few minutes to fill out the online survey, which you can access at:

http://glennschool.osu.edu/surveys/career/

I know that surveys can be a hassle to complete, but our ability to assist you is dependent upon your willingness to share the information we need to be able to help you better. So please take 5 minutes or so to complete this survey by Friday, November 9, 2007.

If you have any questions, please let me know.

New blog

To be more responsive to student questions about academic and career advising, we have created a new blog for our graduate students at http://glennschool.blogspot.com/. I hope to post the answers to some commonly asked questions that we receive each week so that everyone can be on the same page. In most cases, the answers can already be found at http://glennschool.osu.edu/current/mpa or http://glennschool.osu.edu/current/ma and in the pdf handbooks available at those sites as well. However, I will attempt to use this as an additional form of communication.

If you have any feedback or suggestions for items you would like to see listed on this blog, please feel free to email me at meadows.76@osu.edu.

Thanks,
Ryan