Truman School of Government and Public Affairs

Columbia, MO – The Volcker Alliance launched the Service to Service initiative, a partnership with We the Veterans to help schools of public service connect veterans and military families with public service education pathways and propel them into stable and impactful careers in public leadership.

Our faculty regularly produce research that help us understand and contextualize voting patterns and habits.   Jake Haselswerdt, Assoicate Professor in the Truman School, along with his co-authors, recently published some new research into how a personal crisis impacts voter turnout.  

Truman School Students Named Critical Language Scholar and Alternate.  

Scholar: Madison Arenaz

• Freshman studying journalism and political science from Piggott, Arkansas.
• Language: Russian

“I'm most excited about practicing Russian language in a more immersive environment. It's one thing to study a language, but to be able to live alongside native speakers is a really rare experience, and I'm so grateful for it.”

Weijie Wang in the Truman School of Government and Public Affairs recently was published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (JPAM).   He asks the question, "Do government performance signals affect citizen satisfaction?"  Read more: article link. 

Syrus Duffy, MPA candidate and IPP Research Specialist II, Sara Gable, IPP Director, Kelly Schultz, Director of the Legislative Leadership Academy and Truman School Undergraduate Internships, and Hannah Shupert, MPA candidate and IPP Graduate Research Assistant attended the annual meeting of the Consortium of University Public Service Organizations (CUPSO), April 3 – 5, 2024, at UMass Amherst.

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.”