Welcome to the Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA), a non-partisan, interdisciplinary research and teaching center
at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
CPPA is committed to improving public policy and management by conducting and applying research and educating leaders for public service.
Located within the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, CPPA offers the following
academic programs:
In addition to interdisciplinary research conducted by our faculty members and associates, CPPA is home to the
National Center for Digital Government and the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative.
For more information, please click here.
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| MPPA student wins Mass. Municipal Management Association's Gerry Whitlock Scholarship. |
 MPPA candidate Pheobe Walker has won the Massachusetts Municipal Management Association's
Gerry Whitlock scholarship. The scholarship award is $2,000 and Walker, per her winning application, will work with a member of the MMMA's form of government committee on a study of a town
that has recently undergone a change in their form of government. Learn more about MMA..
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| MPPA students to brief Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) officials. |
 As part of a winning class group, MPPA candidates Anna Tomaskovic-Devey and Patricia Tillman and their group-mates
were selected to travel to Washington DC on December 12 to meet with Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict's (CIVIC's) executive director and staff.
Supported by a collaborative research paper, Tomaskovic-Devey and Tillman presented on strategies for building global support for CIVIC's goals.
An example of professors leading students in directly applying current research, the paper and presentation were the main assignment for Professor Charlie
Carpenter's "Global Agenda Setting" course (a Fall 2009 CPPA elective). The trip was sponsored by CPPA and Professor Carpenter as part of her research on global agenda setting.
Read more at the UMass press release.
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| Nancy Folbre receives Women's Fund of Western Massachusettsaward |
.jpg) Economics professor Nancy Folbre was honored Nov. 12 by the Women’s Fund of Western Massachusetts at its annual celebration in Holyoke.
Folbre, who was also the keynote speaker at the event, was one of four recipients of the organization’s Ripple Effect Awards, which recognize women
who have taken part in programs supported by the fund and have gone on to make a mark in their communities.
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| Fountain appointed to World Economic Forum’s "Future of Governments" council |
 Jane Fountain, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Director of the National Center for Digital Government (NCDG),
and Director of the Science, Technology and Society Initiative (STS) has been appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Governments.
Fountain is one of thirteen experts worldwide selected for membership on the Future of Governments Council, which will examine how governments globally might better adapt to the rapid pace of
technological change while building or maintaining transparency, accountability, and civil society. NCDG press release.
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