Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

From Newsy.com: For decades, black voters have been squarely in the Democratic Party. But it wasn't always that way — it took more than a century for that party alignment to take hold. We teamed up with Dr. Marvin Overby from the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy to narrow down key events that led to the black vote turning blue... 

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For the LSE Africa blog, Hangala Siachiwena and Michael Wahman discuss four key factors that could determine the outcome of the 2016 Zambian elections.

Issues impacting the youth of Boone County will be discussed by Missouri State Legislature candidates Sept. 20, 2016.

The 2016 Youth Issues Roundtable is hosted by the Youth Community Coalition. The event is free and open to the public.

Topics of discussion will include: prescription drug monitoring, mental health resources for youth, and academic achievement gaps.

Interim Dean Pat Okker has selected A. Cooper Drury as a new associate dean of A&S. Drury currently serves as chair of the Department of Political Science. 

With Equal Pay Day for African American women having passed on August 23, and Equal Pay Day for Latinas approaching on October 30th, the wage gap statistics are startling.

According to a PM Magazine article, A Push for Civic Education, ten percent of college graduates think Judge Judy is on the Supreme Court, only a third of respondents to a 2014 Annenberg national survey could name all three branches of the federal government, while just eighteen percent of eighth graders scored proficiently in American history.

Truman Youth Leadership Academy Coordinator, Harrison McLean, discussed this year’s upcoming camp in a radio interview, which aired on June 6, 2016 on KWIX Information Radio. The Truman Youth Leadership Academy is a summer day camp geared towards civic involvement, community engagement and leadership activities for incoming 6th-8th graders. This year’s camp runs from July 18th through July 22nd and costs $60. Applications are available at Trumanleadership.org.

In March 2014, as I was deciding between different graduate schools, I decided to visit Columbia for a campus tour at the Truman School of Public Affairs. As I was led through the hallway in the Middlebush building, I paused for a while at the glass doors of the Institute of Public Policy (IPP). Venus Reyes, a student ambassador accompanying me on the tour and a public policy enthusiast herself, briefly described the institute and her work at IPP. I remember thinking: how awesome it would be to work here!

Today, Office of Missouri State Auditor, Nicole Galloway, CPA, released report No. 2016-029, Missouri Statewide Performance Indicators: A National Comparison. The purpose of the report is to provide stand-alone comparative data to the public and elected officials in critical areas of economy, education, health, civic involvement, crime and transportation.  The data collection for the report was performed by the Institute of Public Policy, Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs, at the University of Missouri.