{"id":2002,"date":"2019-09-23T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T18:15:14","slug":"announcing-mpas-1st-tacoma-cohort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/announcing-mpas-1st-tacoma-cohort\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Announcing MPA&#8217;s 1st Tacoma Cohort!<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Puanani Nihoa<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>September 23, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We are pleased to announce our first<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.edu\/mpa\/tacoma\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MPA Tacoma cohort<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> starting this Fall at the Evergreen Tacoma site, located in the notable Hilltop neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We began offering MPA elective courses at the Evergreen Tacoma site starting last Fall. Starting this year, we are offering our Public &amp; Nonprofit Administration and Public Policy concentration at the Tacoma site. Doreen Swetkis and Lianna Shepherd are the inaugural faculty team that will be for the Tacoma first-year learning community.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MPA Tacoma students come from a variety of backgrounds. Below are position titles of several incoming students:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Veteran Services Specialist<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Management Analyst<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Legislative Analyst<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Project Manager<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grant Manager<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community Relations Director<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Services Program Manager<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Data Analyst<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Research Consultant<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Community members who have a bachelor&#8217;s degree and are interested in any of our MPA electives are welcome to take classes at Evergreen&#8217;s Olympia campus or Tacoma site. Non-admitted students can register as a special student for elective courses. For more information, visit our<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.evergreen.edu\/mpa\/reginfo\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registration<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> page.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Puanani Nihoa September 23, 2019 We are pleased to announce our first MPA Tacoma cohort starting this Fall at the Evergreen Tacoma site, located in the notable Hilltop neighborhood. We began offering MPA elective courses at the Evergreen Tacoma&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/announcing-mpas-1st-tacoma-cohort\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/mpanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}