Management/Leadership
Nixons Administration’s Scandal and Policy
Competency: Leading and Managing in the Public Interest
Course: Administrative Ethics
Description: A review of the Nixon Administration’s scandals and how they influenced policy and laws to avoid replication by future administrations. How can the review of the ethics of Nixon’s Administration prepare us for what may come with another Trump administration.
Migration Resettlement Program Memo
Competency: Leading and Managing in the Public Interest
Course: Introduction to Public Administration, Fall 2022
Description: As laws regarding transgender youth and their access to healthcare continue to raise concern for those individuals and families, consideration of a migration resettlement program may be beneficial to assist with the cost of moving domestically to regain access to those services.
Policy
Competency: Participating in and Contributing to the Public Policy Process
Course: Introduction to Public Administration, Fall 2022
Description: In the year of 2022, it was noted there were talks of building a pipeline across North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Iowa to transport carbon dioxide for storage. As the project’s estimated begin date approached, many property owners raised questions as to what this will mean for not only their landowner rights, but their rights to privacy as well.
Case Study: Fatal Police Shootings and Race Memo
Competency: Participating in and Contributing to the Public Policy Process
Course: Introduction to Public Administration, Fall 2022
Description: This memo provides background information regarding the Police Shootings and Race article by Robert VerBruggen. The memo reviews the current findings present in the article and relates them with previous research completed by Peter Moskos documented in his “Cop in the Hood” publication. Using public administration literature and theory, recommendations are made to assist leadership with addressing the complexity of this issue.
Analysis
Competency: Analyzing, Synthesizing, Thinking Critically, Solving Problems and Making Decisions
Course: Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 2025
Description: Homelessness is an on-going societal issue in the United States. In New Jersey, an organization called Family First works towards bridging gaps in services to prevent families from entering into homelessness while supplying support services for those who are already in the homelessness system. Our group, through review and analysis of programmatic documentation and reports were able to determine Family First as a viable and suitable organization to tackle this societal issue with successful outcomes.
Case Analysis: Allens Lane Art Center
Competency: Analyzing, Synthesizing, Thinking Critically, Solving Problems, and Making Decisions
Course: Nonprofit Leadership and Management, 2025
Description: A group critical case analysis of the Allens Lane Art Center. This paper discusses the challenges the organization faced during a period where leadership administrative gaps were present. Our group was able to review materials disclosing the internal policies and procedures in place, or lack of, to determine the best next steps for this organization to maintain operations.
Public Service Perspective
Overview of social equity in public administration
Competency: Articulating and Applying a Public Service Perspective
Course: Leadership and Diversity, Fall 2024
Description: A group project which reviews the relationship between public administration and social equity. This presentation discusses social equity in relation to social welfare programs and work/life balances policies in comparison to the EU. This comparison showcased the approach models utilized between each entity to showcase the differences in transparency and accessibility for those with each respective country to obtain and maintain their public good.
Layers of Inequity: The Challenge of Homelessness
Competency: Articulating and Applying a Public Service Perspective
Course: Managing Public Organizations, Spring 2023
Description: This partnered policy brief reviews the challenges those who are facing homelessness undergo with an emphasis relating to access to healthcare and its services. As public servants, its imperative to host the values of integrity, honestly, accountability, transparency, and fairness. As the COVID-19 pandemic hit, a public good was offered to the constituents of the United States, however, this good was only available to those with verifiable home addresses, thus creating a gap between accessibility to these health related goods, and those experiencing homelessness.
Communication
Competency: Communicating and Interacting with a Diverse and Changing Workforce and Society at Large
Course: Managing Public Organizations, Spring 2023
Description: A review of the organization Churches United for the Homeless, located in Moorhead, MN. Retention rates of staff influence the progression a person is undergoing when attempting to find stability. With high existing turnover rates for Churches United for the Homeless, recommendations are made for the organization to assist with this ongoing issue.
Project Budget: Family Program at Lakes and Prairies Community Action Partnership, Inc.
Competency: Communicating and Interacting with a Diverse and Changing Workforce and Society at Large
Course: Grants and Grants Management, Spring 2023
Description: Lakes and Prairie Community Action Partnership, Inc (CAPLP) is a nonprofit organization that resides in Moorhead, MN. They host several programs particularly catered to assisting those with self sufficiency, but specifically the Whole Family Program. While there are other networks that partner with CAPLP, there is a gap in services noticed. This grant proposal proposes miscellaneous funding in tandem with the services already provided by the program to contribute to the lifespan a person or family has to stay in the poverty cycle.
Alessandra M. Lopez 