Mar 17, 2025

MPA Alumni Spotlight: Shannon Beasley Taitt

Shannon Beasley Taitt serves as the director of planning, analysis and coordination for a federal agency that leads public health efforts to advance behavioral health nation-wide.  She enjoys working across substance use and mental health disorder programs and supporting the operational, programmatic and budgetary needs of internal and external stakeholders. “What I find the most…

Mar 17, 2025

Update on the PA Alumni Society – Message from President Alexis Addison

The PA Alumni Society exists to convene and serve as an on-going professional association for graduates of the Ph.D. and MPA programs. To achieve our mission to advance and support public sector leaders, we seek to maintain and strengthen the relationship between the program, current students and alumni. In April 2024, we hosted our Annual…

Oct 30, 2018

Dr. James Zink Publication

Department of Political Science associate professor Dr. James Zink and co-author Dr. Michelle Schwarze (UW-Madison) recently published their article, "James Wilson's Science of Politics and the Moral Psychology of American Constitutionalism" in the fall issues of American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture.