Join the DPP in our upcoming events!     Wednesday, November 3, 2021 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Live virtual session Register Here Historically, cannabis and drug laws enforcement has affected communities unevenly. Cannabis legalization legislation brought with it a focus on social equity and efforts to remediate historic injustice. This panel discusses the historic […]

Welcome back to the Hartford Times Building! We can’t wait to see you this fall!   With Kenya Rutland, Principal, KJR Consulting Friday, September 17, 2021 This workshop is postponed until November 2021. More info to be announced. 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Hartford Times Building, Room 219 Complete Registration Online At any given moment […]

This Fall semester the Department of Public Policy (DPP) welcomes 131 new masters, certificate, and undergraduate students as well as four additional members of the DPP faculty. Over 35 undergraduate institutions are represented among our Master of Public Administration (MPA), MPA Fellows, Master of Public Policy (MPP), and Survey Research (MASR) programs. Students previously completed […]

The Department of Public Policy (DPP) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) seeks to fill two tenure track positions at the rank of Assistant Professor starting in August 2022. Please view the full position details below. The Department of Public Policy (DPP) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) seeks to fill a tenure track position […]

Welcome back to the Hartford Times Building! We can’t wait to see you this fall! With Christopher Brechlin, MPP ’18, Director of Data & Digital Systems at COMPASS Youth Collaborative August 13 & August 16, 2021 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM Live virtual session Complete Registration Online Participants will learn web-based data extraction method terms […]

This summer the Department of Public Policy (DPP) hit the road and explored America through the eyes of our alumni. Each week we provided a set of clues that represented either a city or state where an alum currently resides. The following day we revealed the location and shared some information about our alum in […]

May means graduation, and we cannot wait to celebrate our newest graduates and also recognize the class of 2020! Upcoming Events Wednesday, May 5th from 12:00pm-1:30pm Register for this free webinar A number of states have used best practices reviews of local government service with accompanying grant programs to speed up innovation. A panel of […]

April showers will bring… new graduates. We cannot wait to celebrate the class of 2021 next month, but for now we have more opportunities for professional development, learning about the DPP and community partnerships. Upcoming Events The DPP hosts 30 minute programmatic info sessions throughout the month. We also offer individual meetings with prospective students. […]

Friday, March 26, 2021 6:00pm – 7:15pm Welcome Remarks: Mohamad Alkadry, DPP Department Head President’s Welcome: Thomas Katsouleas, President, University of Connecticut Dean’s Welcome: Juli Wade, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Welcome: Larisa Kottke, President, DPP Alumni Council, MPA ‘13 Introduction: Robert T. Ross, Executive Director, CT Office of Military Affairs, MPA ‘04    DPP Distinguished Alumni […]

Assistant Professor Ruodan Zhang Uses Machine Learning to Improve the Retrievability of IRS 990 Text Data Zhang is working with New York University’s Haohan Chen to develop a method that helps researchers and practitioners identify nonprofit organizations of interest. This research takes advantage of the newly available nonprofit mission and program service activity description data reported in […]