Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Billed by the host of the NCSL podcast “The Inside Storey” Tim Storey as the person who “may know more about state legislatures and their history than anyone,” Truman School Professor Peverill Squire recently co-hosted an episode of Storey’s podcast entitled “A Walk Through the History of Legislatures.”

Seventeen students from Truman School’s Mizzou Model UN recently traveled to Chicago to  participate in the American Model United Nations conference and won four awards, more than any other school in the competition.

The Mizzou Model UN had two delegations competing in Chicago, as Honduras and Palestine and took home individual awards for:

On September 29, Truman School Professor and Director Dr. Lael Keiser had the pleasure of attending the unveiling of the Harry S. Truman statue in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Placement of the statue was the culmination of a fundraising effort by the Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri. During the ceremony, Truman’s oldest grandson Clifton Truman Daniel, U.S. Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO) and U.S. Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), among others, highlighted several of President Truman’s many accomplishments.  

IPP’s Emily Johnson discussed the benefits to both employers and employees and the disparities of access to paid family leave in Missouri on July 14, 2022, in an interview on KKFI 90.1 FM with Judy Ancel.  Public interest in paid family leave came to the forefront during the pandemic when many families were faced with illness and wage loss.  IPP was contracted by MFH late last year to conduct research on the issue, which will be forthcoming in a series of briefs due in September.

Before I enrolled at the Truman School I worked as the editor of a newspaper in a small town in Missouri. I covered a whole variety of people trying to make their communities better — and developed an interest in the logic behind public policy. How can we design public policy so their initiatives would have the highest possible chance of success? I enrolled at the Truman School in order to get better answers to that question.

The Institute of Public Policy has had another productive year and we would like to recognize all of the students who contribute to the success of the Institute.  Graduate Research Assistants provide support through a variety of tasks including data collection, entry and analysis, literature reviews, key informant interviews, survey design and distribution, and contributions to progress and final reports.  This year, the Institute also hosted a work-study student who assisted with administrative tasks.