MPA Program I witnessed and explored leadership traits in my peers, professionals, and professors during my applied learning experience. Leadership is the overarching theme of what my portfolio represents, as every opportunity to engage in problem solving and research involves learning to be an effective leader. These include a research methods project, a literature review and a case study. Through these course objectives, I learned that leadership is integrated through theory, practice, and ideas. It’s collaborative and cooperative. Leading a group project or completing projects in a nonprofit setting requires sharing power and sharing that is an inclusive process where everyone is working toward the same goal. In my first class of my college career, State and Local Government, I quickly learned that by majoring in public administration research methods and graduate writing, I was preparing myself for a career and was not just aiming for academic success. Every theory, practice, and process I learned in individual courses carried over into the rest of my academic program. The MPA program showed me how public service and public administration requires collaboration, effective board members, and well-managed staff and volunteers. Public administration requires analysis of a program's success, resource availability, and budgets within an agency. Additionally, an agency's values must be accessible to ensure that staff members share the same values and recognize the public value to the success of their mission. The MPA program plan allows students to develop their professional future using the tools our professors and professional advisors have equipped us with, that is, course knowledge and tangible practice in designing the medium of paper. ....., including politics, economics and agency culture. However, I also learned that it is possible to work smart and not just hard. By using the work collected in my portfolio, drawing on the rich academic knowledge that the program has given me, and building on my previous professional experience through my applied learning internship, I can work intelligently in my future career by simply relying on the knowledge I gained in the program. This portfolio represents several aspects of public administration, from quantitative analysis to research and case study, the constant idea is change, change in the policies and programs of our society that affect each of us. My article on the School to Prison Pipeline project is an example of such a policy. By studying policy, we can determine if changes are necessary for a policy to be successful. Program evaluation is an effective tool as it is used for such determination

Essay / MPA Program I witnessed and explored leadership traits in my peers, professionals, and professors during my applied learning experience. Leadership is the overarching theme of what my portfolio represents, as every opportunity to engage in problem solving and research involves learning to be an effective leader. These include a research methods project, a literature review and a case study. Through these course objectives, I learned that leadership is integrated through theory, practice, and ideas. It’s collaborative and cooperative. Leading a group project or completing projects in a nonprofit setting requires sharing power and sharing that is an inclusive process where everyone is working toward the same goal. In my first class of my college career, State and Local Government, I quickly learned that by majoring in public administration research methods and graduate writing, I was preparing myself for a career and was not just aiming for academic success. Every theory, practice, and process I learned in individual courses carried over into the rest of my academic program. The MPA program showed me how public service and public administration requires collaboration, effective board members, and well-managed staff and volunteers. Public administration requires analysis of a program's success, resource availability, and budgets within an agency. Additionally, an agency's values must be accessible to ensure that staff members share the same values and recognize the public value to the success of their mission. The MPA program plan allows students to develop their professional future using the tools our professors and professional advisors have equipped us with, that is, course knowledge and tangible practice in designing the medium of paper. ....., including politics, economics and agency culture. However, I also learned that it is possible to work smart and not just hard. By using the work collected in my portfolio, drawing on the rich academic knowledge that the program has given me, and building on my previous professional experience through my applied learning internship, I can work intelligently in my future career by simply relying on the knowledge I gained in the program. This portfolio represents several aspects of public administration, from quantitative analysis to research and case study, the constant idea is change, change in the policies and programs of our society that affect each of us. My article on the School to Prison Pipeline project is an example of such a policy. By studying policy, we can determine if changes are necessary for a policy to be successful. Program evaluation is an effective tool as it is used for such determination

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