Call for 2024-2025 theme
Submissions are being accepted
Public Affairs annual theme suggestions for the 2024-2025 academic year are now being accepted. Each year, the university focuses on a specific aspect, or theme that helps to further expand the understanding of the public affairs mission and how it relates to all of us in our everyday lives. The intent is to identify and adopt a theme that can be embraced and explored by each college as well as the co-curricular campus community for the academic year.
While public affairs themes generally focus on challenges in public policy or issues confronting our world, you are encouraged to submit any and all ideas. Ultimately, the theme will be developed in a collaborative manner involving representatives of the various parts of the university community (students/faculty/staff); these individuals will look for a concept that can engage and excite the campus through a broad topic and provide meaningful opportunities for learning. In some cases, theme suggestions may be combined to broaden the perspective of the topic. As the driving force of the annual Public Affairs Conference, the theme should be broad enough to be used in a wide variety of both curricular and co-curricular activities, yet focused enough to be illustrative of our public affairs mission components: community engagement, cultural competence, and ethical leadership.
View past themes.
Proposals
Proposals may be submitted through the online form. The description should include a narrative of the idea and how it would fulfill the above criteria, including specific examples of curricular and co-curricular activities that could take place. Proposals may also include name(s) of tenued faculty who may be potentialy good stuards of the submitted theme by serving as the year's Provost Fellows for Public Affairs.
Provost Fellow for Public Affairs
Once the theme has been selected, the Associate Provost for Public Affairs and Assessment will begin selection a Provost Fellow. The Provost Fellow will assist in coordinating the year's Public Affairs Conference. To qualify, the Fellow must be a tenured faculty member in good standing within the college/university and willing to engage the entire campus in the development of the Public Affairs Conference.
Questions
Questions should be directed to Dr. Keri Franklin, Associate Provost, Public Affairs and Assessment at KFranklin@MissouriState.edu, or Mary Ann Wood, Director, Public Affairs Support MaryAnnWood@MissouriState.edu.