Who does what at MPA/Where to get Help

Assistant MPA Directors:
General Cohort – Randee Gibbons
Tribal Cohort – Puanani Nihoa

• Guide: goal is to teach students to navigate Evergreen
• MPA program and procedure questions
• Info & referral when you don’t know where to go
• Help to overcome obstacles and intercede when necessary
• Assist in achieving problem/conflict resolution
• Course enrollment management
• Degree requirements: “where am I in my program?”
• Internship information
• MPA financial aid process
• Graduation process
• Managing communications (website, newsletter, etc.)

Writing Assistance: Katie Wolt

• Help with assignments at any and all stages (generating ideas, creating an outline, proofreading, grammar, how to do citations, etc.)

MPA Office Assistant: Jan Hays

• Provides administrative support for MPA program
• Posts syllabi and other course information to MPA website
• Maintains MPA listserves

Faculty: see MPA Faculty contact page

• Course related questions: syllabus, assignments, textbooks, due dates, incompletes, etc.
• Continuing faculty: sponsor individual learning contracts, internship contracts and theses
• Academic advising

Academic Program Support staff: Tamara Pinero & Marcia Zitzelman at lab2support

• Faculty evaluation of student processing
• Student evaluation of faculty processing

MPA Director: Lee Lyttle

• Overall administration of MPA
• Policy/procedure final decision maker
• Approves transfer credits
• Approves individual learning contracts, internship contracts and theses
• Approves graduation requests
• Grievances: assists in achieving resolution