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.
E-mail reporter LaBree Shide
at labreeshide@dailyemerald.com
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