UMaine Offering Public Administration Classes in Augusta
Contact: Carolyn Ball, 581-4142
AUGUSTA — The University of Maine’s Department of Public Administration is offering three courses for the spring semester in the Augusta area for men and women with jobs, families or other obligations preventing them from traveling to the Orono campus.
Prospective students interested in learning more about these graduate-level classes are invited to call professor Carolyn Ball, director of graduate programs at 581-4142 to arrange an appointment, or stop by Room 300 in the Burton Cross Building, formerly called the State Office Building, adjacent to the State House in Augusta, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, between 9 a.m. and noon.
Courses are:
PAA 550, Seminar in Public Personnel Management, a consideration of selected problems in the public personnel management process, taught by UMaine associate professor Carolyn Ball, Tuesdays from 6-8:39 p.m. and starting Jan. 13.
PAA 620, Program Analysis and Evaluation, examining the design and implementation of evaluation methods to assess and improve the effectiveness, efficiency and impact of programs; taught by UMaine associate professor Kenneth Nichols, Wednesdays, 6-8:30 p.m., starting Jan. 14.
PAA 691, Topics in Public Administration: Leadership in a Fast-Paced World, about the rapid rate of change in modern organizations and the resulting increase in burdens on the leaders of those organizations, and various leadership styles and strategies to deal with them; taught by adjunct faculty member Chip Morrison, former commissioner of the Maine Department of Labor and current president of the Androscoggin County Chamber of Commerce, Mondays, 5-7:30 p.m., starting Jan. 12.
Classes are graduate level but may be authorized by special permission for qualified undergraduates. Students may earn a master’s degree in public administration by taking all the required classes in Augusta.
To register by mail, write to Department of Public Administration, 5754 North Stevens Hall, Room 239, Orono, 04469-5754; in person, stop by Room 239 North Stevens Hall or call (207) 581-1872. Information also can be obtained emailing umpubadm@umit.maine.edu. Information about the Department of Public Administration is available on its website (www.umaine.edu/pubadmin).