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Service Learning
Many MPA courses involve students with projects addressing the needs of local governments and nonprofit organizations. These activities provide students with opportunities to apply their skills and the nonprofit organizations benefit from useful analyses. For example, last year, students conducted a survey for Broome County Transit, reviewed the New York State laws on local government consolidation procedures, conducted a strategic analysis of information technology needs for the College of Community and Public Affairs and evaluated the costs of several local government services.
Courses in fall 2007 that plan to include service-learning projects are:
PAFF 561 Comparative Public Administration.
Students will conduct a comparative analysis of the services provided by villages in two states and one Canadian province.
PAFF 510 Logic of Inquiry
Students will conduct a community survey for the Binghamton Police Diversity Project as a semester-long service learning project.
