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CONGRATULATIONS
- to Dr. Tracey Raney, who was awarded the 2013 Jill Vickers Prize for her paper entitled “Leaving Parliament: Gender and Exit in the Ontario Legislature.” The prize was announced, and the plaque presented, at the President’s Dinner of the Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference (part of the Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences) in Victoria, BC on 05 June 2013. The Jill Vickers Prize was established in 2004 in honour of Professor Jill Vickers, an activist and a leader in Canadian feminist scholarship, and the author of numerous books and articles in the fields of feminist political science, epistemology and interdisciplinary methodology, feminist theory and movements for change, and is awarded annually to the author or authors of the best paper presented, in English or French, at the annual conference of the Canadian Political Science Association on the topic of gender and politics.
- to our graduates! For pictures, articles and webcasts of Convocation click here.
- 13 June 2008 saw the first graduate of the Politics and Governance program.
- to the winners of the Government of Ontario Amethyst Award for Outstanding Achievement in 2011
- Fausto Iannialice (MA, 2008)
- Agapi A. Mavridis (MA, 2008)
- Reg Pearson (Adjunct Graduate Faculty)
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DEPARTMENT NEWS
- Archives
- Briefing Notes, the
hard-copy newsletter of the Department of Politics and Public
Administration, was produced regularly until Fall 2004. Archived
copies are available here.
- 2007
- 2008
- Ontario Public Service (OPS) Fellow
- The Department welcomes Susan Charendoff as the second OPS Fellow to be placed at Ryerson. As Director of the Civil Policy and Programs Branch, Court Services Division, Ministry of Attorney General, Ms. Charendoff has played a lead role in a number of significant civil justice reform initiatives, including Small Claims Court reforms, the introduction of mandatory mediation into the civil justice system, and reforms to streamline the civil discovery process. With her 23 years of public service experience, she has gained expertise in all phases of legal and operational policy development, program design, implementation and evaluation. Her history as a seasoned executive, leading change through complex programs and projects, will serve her well during her Fellowship at Ryerson. Ms. Charendoff holds an LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School and a B.A. from York University. She will be in the Department regularly throughout the 2013-14 academic year, located in JOR725. Susan Charendoff replaces Shirley Phillips (Assistant Deputy Minister, Planning and Operations Division, Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport), who served as the first OPS Fellow at Ryerson (from July 2012 through September 2013). The Department thanks Shirley for her many contributions during that time.
- Partnerships
- Penn State Erie (The Behrend College)
- A number of Penn State students come to Toronto in alternate years to take a course co-taught by Dr. Gregory Inwood (Ryerson) and Dr. Robert Speel (Penn State). For Ryerson students, the course is POG417 (Canadian-American Relations) and, for Penn State students, the course is PL SC 299/499 (North American Politics). Click here for details and photos.
- Public Servant in Residence
- The Department is delighted to have Joan Andrew in the Department as Distinguished Public Servant in Residence since June 2010. An experienced public servant, Ms. Andrew brings to the Department a wide range of skills and contacts of enormous benefit to students in the Policy Studies PhD program, the Public Policy and Administration MA program, and both undergraduate programs. She is in the Department two-days each week and is located in JOR707.
- Department Seminar Series
- The Department has occasional seminars throughout the Fall and Winter terms.
- Click here for the Winter 2013 Schedule
- Jack Layton Lecture
- The inaugural lecture was delivered, on Thursday 20 September 2012, by Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus at McGill with whom Jack studied as an undergraduate. Taylor’s lecture , delivered to a capacity house in the Ryerson Theatre, was titled: “Reimagining, Restoring and Reclaiming Democracy.” Click here for more.
- Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture
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The Phyllis Clarke Memorial Lecture is held annually, usually in March, to honour the memory of Phyllis Clarke, a member of the Department from 1977 until her death in 1988.
- Policy Conference:
- Employment News
- For specific employment opportunities, see Useful
Links
- Steve Lohr, “With Finance Disgraced, Which Career Will Be King?” New York Times, 12 April 2009.
Lohr argues that careers in the public sector are increasingly attractive.
- Government and Google: Top Ranked Employers amongst students. For the third time in a row, the Government of Canada has taken the number one most desirable employer ranking position amongst post-secondary students, an October 2007 research report reveals.
- "Public
sector prepares for baby boomer exodus," Ottawa
Citizen, 6 November 2006.
- "At 200Gs,
Deputy Ministers outearn Premier," Toronto Sun,
11 November 2005, p. 3.
- Hi-tech CEOs say value of liberal arts is increasing
In April of 2000, thirty leaders of Canadian high-technology corporations took out a large advertisement to underscore the importance of liberal arts education in the digital economy.
- Essay Competitions
- Click on “Useful Links” in the LH menu and scroll down to “Essay Competitions”
- Graduate Education
- Public Policy Wiki
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The Dominion Institute and theglobeandmail.com have launched an online wiki community, which is asked to develop concrete policy proposals to deal with the most compelling public policy challenges currently facing Canada. Click here for further details.
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