Course evaluation packets were distributed to our faculty and instructors yesterday, and some have already begun distributing them to their classes. These things are pretty straight forward and easy to complete, but there are just a couple of things to remember. First, only the front of the form has to be completed in pencil; ink is too reflective for the machine that processes the forms. We try to provide enough of the golf pencils for those who may need one, but sometimes our supply runs short as we offer more classes as time goes on. So if you find yourself having to share a pencil, you can complete the front in pencil but you can write any comments you'd like on the back in ballpoint pen.
As for the comments, the department staff retype them verbatim into MS Word. Faculty members will see your comments as a typed Word document, not your hand-written eval form, to ensure anonymity.
Finally, for those who are double-majors, please pick the one you most closely identify with and use that to answer the first question, "What is your major?" The machine that processes the forms will reject your eval form is you fill in multiple responses for that question.
Many thanks!
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
Charter Lecture, April 17
April 11, 2006
To: SPIA Students, Faculty, and Staff
From: Hal Rainey, Department of Public Administration and Policy
Re: Charter Lecturer Taylor Branch
Please let me encourage all SPIA students, faculty, and staff to attend the Charter Lecture on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Taylor Branch will deliver the lecture, which should be of interest to all of us. He won the Pulitzer Prize as well as other major awards for his book, Parting the Waters, the first of a trilogy of books about the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King. Branch has a Masters Degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He has been active in electoral politics in the past and has strong interests in political science, public affairs, and public service. His lecture will be about "Democracy in Crisis: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Future." He will discuss the application of themes from the civil rights movement, such as nonviolence, to contemporary and future issues in democratic governance and international relations.
Branch recently published the third book of his trilogy, At Canaan's Edge. All major newspapers and magazines in the U.S. have carried laudatory reviews of the book, and he has appeared on numerous talk shows to discuss it.
After the lecture, there will be a reception and book signing at the Russell Library. There were many requests for his involvement while he is on campus, so there are not as many opportunities to get him together with SPIA people as we would have liked. Taylor is friendly and enjoys talking to students, staff members, and faculty members, so this is an opportunity to meet and hear from an interesting and very significant author.
To: SPIA Students, Faculty, and Staff
From: Hal Rainey, Department of Public Administration and Policy
Re: Charter Lecturer Taylor Branch
Please let me encourage all SPIA students, faculty, and staff to attend the Charter Lecture on Monday, April 17, 2006 at 3:30 p.m. in the Chapel. Taylor Branch will deliver the lecture, which should be of interest to all of us. He won the Pulitzer Prize as well as other major awards for his book, Parting the Waters, the first of a trilogy of books about the civil rights movement and Martin Luther King. Branch has a Masters Degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. He has been active in electoral politics in the past and has strong interests in political science, public affairs, and public service. His lecture will be about "Democracy in Crisis: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Future." He will discuss the application of themes from the civil rights movement, such as nonviolence, to contemporary and future issues in democratic governance and international relations.
Branch recently published the third book of his trilogy, At Canaan's Edge. All major newspapers and magazines in the U.S. have carried laudatory reviews of the book, and he has appeared on numerous talk shows to discuss it.
After the lecture, there will be a reception and book signing at the Russell Library. There were many requests for his involvement while he is on campus, so there are not as many opportunities to get him together with SPIA people as we would have liked. Taylor is friendly and enjoys talking to students, staff members, and faculty members, so this is an opportunity to meet and hear from an interesting and very significant author.
Tuesday, April 04, 2006
GLOBIS Friday Forum, April 7
Please join us at GLOBIS for another Friday Forum this Friday, 7 April, from 2:00 to 3:00pm when Dr. Doug Stinnett will present his research entitled, "Accounting for the Depth of Cooperation: The Design of Regional Trade Agreements." A brief abstract follows:
This paper aims to increase our understanding of international cooperation by examining the depth of economic cooperation in regional trade agreements.
The notion that the extent of international cooperation can be either "deep" or "shallow" is recognized, either implicitly or explicitly, in a wide range of international relations scholarship. Despite widespread theoretical recognition, very little research is explicitly focused on explaining this fundamental aspect of international cooperation. In particular, there have been very few studies that account for the depth of cooperation with a systematic empirical analysis. Most empirical studies do not measure it in an appropriate manner, instead treating cooperation as a dichotomous outcome or by measuring depth indirectly. This means that our empirical analyses of cooperation are not directly testing our theories of cooperation. I address this oversight with an empirical analysis of the depth of cooperation in a single issue area: regional trade agreements. Drawing on several existing areas of research, I present a series of hypotheses regarding the depth of
cooperation in regional trade agreements. In particular, I concentrate on the political, economic, and demographic determinants of the demand for regional economic integration. I test these hypotheses using a new data set that directly measures the depth of proposed trade integration in sample of regional trade agreements formed between 1958 and 2002. The findings of this analysis have implications for our understanding of the effects that democratic government, military alliances, regional leadership, and interstate bargaining have on economic cooperation.
In addition, if anyone is interested in presenting a seminar paper, thesis, prospectus, or dissertation to an interested and informed audience in preparation for academic conferences, please contact Regan Damron at the email address or phone number listed below.
GLOBIS is located in historic Franklin House on the corner of Thomas St. and Broad St. at the Northern edge of campus. Please email redamron@uga.edu or call 542-6633 for directions.
Regards,
Regan Damron
Research Associate
Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS)
School of Public & International Affairs
The University of Georgia
This paper aims to increase our understanding of international cooperation by examining the depth of economic cooperation in regional trade agreements.
The notion that the extent of international cooperation can be either "deep" or "shallow" is recognized, either implicitly or explicitly, in a wide range of international relations scholarship. Despite widespread theoretical recognition, very little research is explicitly focused on explaining this fundamental aspect of international cooperation. In particular, there have been very few studies that account for the depth of cooperation with a systematic empirical analysis. Most empirical studies do not measure it in an appropriate manner, instead treating cooperation as a dichotomous outcome or by measuring depth indirectly. This means that our empirical analyses of cooperation are not directly testing our theories of cooperation. I address this oversight with an empirical analysis of the depth of cooperation in a single issue area: regional trade agreements. Drawing on several existing areas of research, I present a series of hypotheses regarding the depth of
cooperation in regional trade agreements. In particular, I concentrate on the political, economic, and demographic determinants of the demand for regional economic integration. I test these hypotheses using a new data set that directly measures the depth of proposed trade integration in sample of regional trade agreements formed between 1958 and 2002. The findings of this analysis have implications for our understanding of the effects that democratic government, military alliances, regional leadership, and interstate bargaining have on economic cooperation.
In addition, if anyone is interested in presenting a seminar paper, thesis, prospectus, or dissertation to an interested and informed audience in preparation for academic conferences, please contact Regan Damron at the email address or phone number listed below.
GLOBIS is located in historic Franklin House on the corner of Thomas St. and Broad St. at the Northern edge of campus. Please email redamron@uga.edu or call 542-6633 for directions.
Regards,
Regan Damron
Research Associate
Center for the Study of Global Issues (GLOBIS)
School of Public & International Affairs
The University of Georgia
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