Written by: Nikki Livingston As a Washington Leadership Program participant Julia Hyde, a junior studying public policy and public safety, interned for the DC Homeland Security Emergency Management Agency. She supported security plans for the presidential inauguration, developed the first district-wide Unmanned Aircraft System program, and responded to a major gas explosion that displaced 100 people.
Written by: Thomas D. Stucky, Ph.D. Professor, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Indianapolis Leaders in nonprofit or government organizations are charged with deciding where to place resources and energy to accomplish the goals of their organization. But far too often, they may end up sacrificing critical big picture planning to focus… Read more »
Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness is joining the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Indianapolis as an associate faculty member for the fall 2024 semester, leading a course designed to help future leaders better understand what it means to be a public servant. Fadness—who earned his MPA with O’Neill in 2007—will… Read more »
The O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Indianapolis is launching a new degree program to help grow leaders across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. And it is the first new degree approved for IU Indianapolis. The newly launched Community and Organizational Leadership Studies program offers a bachelor’s degree, minor, and certificate… Read more »
In the nonprofit world, a leadership role is often something people grow into through experience rather than something they’ve been trained to do. Suzanne O’Malley says that’s something they see in the field of victim services. “People go into this field to help others,” she explains. “They don’t necessarily have management training or an educational… Read more »
