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CONGRATULATIONS
- 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
- In July 2012, the Department welcomed Shirley Phillips as the first OPS Fellow to be placed at Ryerson. An experienced Assistant Deputy Minister (currently of the Planning and Operations Division in the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport), Shirley currently oversees the provincial relationship between the ministry and its agencies, providing strong strategic policy direction and ensuring sound governance, accountability and sustainability. Ms. Phillips 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 regularly and is located in JOR725.
- 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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