Academic Updates
The 2016-17 Outline for PMPA 809 Management in the Public Sector is now posted under the Teaching tab.

Thanks to all the students of 827, Financial Management, for a great year. Lots of talk and lots of great ideas. I have signed on for another year in 2017.

Welcome MIR students. If you want to see an outline of the 2016 version of Financial Literacy for Non-Financial Managers, which i have the pleasure of teaching with Len Anderson, Click Here or follow the tab under Teaching Queens University.



Courses Planned for 2016-17:
  • 809 (Fall and Winter): Public Management in the Professional Development Program. See previous outlines under the Teaching Tab.
  • 889 (Fall): Financial Literary for IR Professionals. Offered in the Master of Industrial Relations Program. See Teaching Tab.
  • 827 (Spring Term, 2017): Financial Management in the MPA and PMPA programs Summer session. See Teaching Tab.
Emerging and Current Developments

Review of the Professional MPA Program.
I have been asked by the Executive Director of the School of Policy Studies at Queens to undertake a review of the PMPA program, with an eye to suggesting a future direction, building upon the many strengths of the current program and what we also have learned in offering this program for so many years. Click here to see the Scoping Document.

A survey of alumni can be found here or by scrolling down the sidebar menu. Please fill it in and send it to me. Your input is valuable to us.

National Case Competition is Moving On and Up

With the successful conclusion of the fourth National Public Administration Case Competition in Halifax, the time has come to review our successes to date, what we have learned and how we can broaden participation in this new way to showcase emerging public administration talents across the country. As well, the time has come to involve more people and organizations in the work of this event, which has become a singular event in the cycle of public administration schools. to that end, CAPPA - the Canadian Association of Programs in Public Administration - is leading a review. this is timely and much needed as the event has well outgrown the capacity of one person to carry.
Webinar for the Canadian Association of Police Governance: Where Will the Board Be? An Era of New Pressures and Old Questions August, 2016: Click here to access.
Sounding Off: Briefly Noted Commentaries, Contributions and Holding Forth
Presentations: Recent and Forthcoming

Presentation to the Senate Committee on National Defence and Security, Presentation on Critical Infrastructure Risks and Threats, March 21, 2016. Click here to access.

Police Governance 101: Presentation in March, 2015 to the Police Commissions of Manitoba. Click here to access.

Putting Policy to Work: Policy Implementation Checklist: This checklist is the product of a workshop offered through Queen's to the Ontario Public Service, last held in Toronto, April, 2015. Click here to access.

Discussion Guide: Summit on Police Governance, Toronto, April, 2015. Click here to access.