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PPPM to honor students, alumni ■The Planning, Public Policy and Management department will celebrate 20 years at the University today at 3:30 p.m. By LaBree Shide Oregon Daily Emerald After 20 years at the University, the Department of Planning, Pub lic Policy and Management is cele brating its anniversary by honoring past graduates and promoting cur rent students. The celebration will take place 3:30 p.m. today on the Hendricks Hall west lawn with the display of student projects begin ning at 1:00 p.m. The program will feature first time awards for outstanding alum ni achievement and outstanding service to Oregon. Michael Hib bard, the department head, said most of the presentation will also focus on the awards and a new en dowment. “The core of it is initiating and distributing the awards and also the new endowment for the de partment in memory of Wes Kvarsten,’’ Hibbard said. Kvarsten is a University alum nus who passed away in 2001. His family established the new endow ment in his memory to support faculty of the department in their research, curriculum design and professional development. Kvarsten devoted most of his ca reer to planning and public admin istration work. He was the director of the Mid-Valley Planning Coun cil and Mid-Willamette Valley Council, as well as the Oregon Land Conservation and Develop ment Commission. Others to be honored include outstanding alumni award-win ners Kirstin Greene and Steven Wright, and outstanding service to Oregon award-winner Richard Townsend. All have been public leaders in their communities and in their work after graduating from the University. Alumni are not the only people who succeeding, as current stu dents are still involved in projects, internships and theses. The de partment gives students the chance to become a part of their communities and learn to be lead ers in the future. “We hope to connect govern ment to the average person. We prepare those citizens and put them in leadership roles in the public to solve public planning problems,” Hibbard said. Jean Stockard, a faculty member, said the department is great for students interested in planning, public policy and management. “It is a challenging and rigorous program that requires both work in the real world, with an internship requirement, as well as a senior thesis,” Stockard said. “We have admission requirements and it is difficult to even get in.” Hibbard said alumni are scat tered throughout Oregon in suc cessful positions. “It is almost impossible to walk into a public agency in Oregon and not find graduates in leader ship roles,” Hibbard said. “Stu dents and faculty have shaped public policy in Oregon and around the world.” Current projects from students and faculty include theses and pa pers proposing models for democ racy, Oregon hazard planning, health care issues and environ mental projects. There are also new features within the depart ment, including graduate certifi cates in not-for-profit management. Renee Irvin, a faculty member, said the new certificate is a 24-credit program with courses that specifi cally deal with management ca reers in a nonprofit sector. Irvin said that many students from several departments are inter ested in the new certificate. “Al though the certificate can be a stand-alone post-baccalaureate program, we’re finding that Uni versity grad students from a vari ety of departments — internation al studies, environmental studies, PPPM and others — are adding the certificate to their masters degree for practical career preparation in the nonprofit sector,” Irvin said. 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Volunteers will be present before all graduation ceremonies this year to hand out green ribbons and pins to r graduates who endorse the pledge. Speakers at tonight’s event will in clude Director of Multicultural Affairs Carla Gaiy, Campus Recycling Direc tor Karyn Kaplan and Joseph Kassel, a naturopath and acupuncturist. The ASUO, the environmental studies department, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Al liance and the Survival Center are co sponsoring the event. Students organ izing the event are preparing the food, which was donated by the Organical ly Grown Co-op, Costco and Surata Tofu. The United Lutheran Church is located at 2230 Washington St. — Kara Cogswell NEED CASH ? We buy used texts and other good books throughout the year 768 East 1 3th (541) 345-1651 one block from U of O 525 Willamette (541) 343-4717 near the Post Office www.smithfamilybookstore.com Goodwrench A little lube makes for a '' smooth ride. 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