Wednesday, September 3, 2014

AKC Alumni Mentoring Program Swings into Action

More than 2 dozen AKC alumni - currently working in governments, the private sector and international organizations located from Ottawa to Kabul to Budapest and elsewhere - have signed on as potential mentors for senior AKC students in a new program being launched this fall. AKC Alumni Mentorship Program Overview AKC Alumni Mentorship Program... More

Thursday, April 3, 2014

B.PAPM Student Nominated to hold Seat at Charlottetown Conference for Female Visionaries

B.PAPM student, Layla Farhat, as been nominated to participate in an initiative launched in PEI called 'A Bold Vision'. In 1864 the Charlottetown Conference brought together 23 men whose collective thinking and visioning ultimately led to the formation of Canada. This year, at the 150th anniversary, ‘A Bold Vision’ is recreating this... More

Monday, February 3, 2014

Kroeger College Alumni Bursary

Alumni Bursary The Arthur Kroeger College Alumni Chapter is pleased to announce a substantial gift from the College to the new Alumni Bursary. The gift will enable the Chapter to reach the required balance of $25,000 in bursary funds by 2016 with reasonable further fundraising efforts over the coming two... More

Monday, January 27, 2014

Intern in Peru through Kroeger College

Kroeger College will send up to six students to live, learn and work in the high Andes for six weeks in the Spring (May to mid-June.)  Interns will be attached to one of the projects run by Nexos Voluntarios in Urubamba, Peru. The College will cover return airfare, participation and accommodation costs.  Interns will... More

Monday, January 13, 2014

Kroeger College announces the Geoffrey Pearson Travel Bursary

The Geoffrey Pearson Travel Bursary which provides assistance for travel expenses related to research on the United Nations, its member organizations and associated agencies. Applications should be completed by 1 March and should be left at the College (D199 Loeb).  Application forms can be found in the Documents and Forms section of the College... More

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Kroeger College welcomes new director

Prof. Barry Wright of the Department of Law and Legal Studies becomes the third director of Kroeger College on July 1, 2013.  He replaces Christopher Dornan, who served as director from 2007-2013, and who followed in the footsteps of founding director Eileen Saunders, who served from 1999-2006. Prof. Wright (B.A., History, University of Toronto;... More

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Oxford bound: B.PAPM grad wins Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship

B.PAPM grad Ian Denhez will be pursuing his M.Phil in Comparative Government at the University of Oxford in September, and has been awarded a prestigious Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship. Established in the will of former prime minister William Mackenzie King, four Travelling Scholarships are awarded each year to Canadian students pursuing... More

Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Roundtable with the Honorable Dennis Hertel

Ms. Diane Sovereign, Cultural Attaché, Embassy of the United States, the Clayton Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management, the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs and the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians invite you to a roundtable seminar and lunch with former U.S. Congressman Dennis Hertel.  Mr. Hertel will deliver... More

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Conducting Aboriginal research ethically

Fourth-year B.PAPM student Annie Kingston Miller spent the Fall term working with Mallory Whiteduck and Linda Capperauld of Carleton's Centre for Aboriginal Culture and Education, in conjunction with the Faculty of Pubic Affairs, on a research report investigating Aboriginal Research Ethics. The project highlighted current efforts at Canadian... More

Monday, May 6, 2013

In the Andes

The 2013 contingent of Kroeger College B.PAPM students attached to the Peruvian NGO Nexos Voluntarios has arrived in Urubamba in the high Andes.  They are adjusting to the altitude and beginning work on an anti-racism campaign on which Kroeger students have worked since 2011.  Left to right, they are: Imaan Sandhu, Marianne Poirier, Victoria... More

Monday, May 6, 2013

David Coletto named one of Ottawa’s Top 40 Under 40

David Coletto, B.PAPM graduate ('04), adjunct faculty member of Kroeger College, and CEO of Abacus Data, has been named to the 2013 roster of Ottawa's Top 40 Under 40 by the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce and the Ottawa Business Journal.  The annual awards program recognizes young business leaders who give back to the Ottawa... More

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Grads contribute to humanitarian relief for Syrian refugees

Three recent B.PAPM grads -- Maria Loveys, Sofija Vrbaski and Mozynah Nofal -- were part of the Hayat Humanitarian fact-finding convoy that visited refugee camps in Syria earlier this month, documenting conditions so as to make recommendations to various aid organizations about the needs of Syrian refugees.  The team of 15 included members from... More

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Robyn Gibbard selected for Parliamentary Internship Programme

B.PAPM graduate Robyn Gibbard ('12) has been selected for the prestigious Parliamentary Internship Programme for 2013-14.  The 10-month programme provides an opportunity  for 10 young Canadian university graduates to work and study on Parliament Hill.  Interns receive a $22,000 scholarship and spend five months working in the office of a... More

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Life after the B.PAPM

The Kroeger College Alumni Chapter held a networking event for graduating PAPM students Wednesday evening, featuring a panel of Ottawa-area alumni offering lessons from their experience in the workforce, along with a mix-and-mingle opportunity with other Kroeger College alumni in attendance.  The event was organized by Alumni Chapter president... More

Monday, March 4, 2013

Award winning research

Fourth year PAPM student Tamara Nahal has been awarded a Julius Lukasiewicz Award, worth $1,050, for her research on multi-modal transportation in Ottawa.  The award goes to a student who has completed a 3000- or 4000-level course in Technology, Society and Environment Studies and is pursuing a research project germane to the relationship between... More

Friday, March 1, 2013

Hearts & Mines on the bill for Bluesfest

Björk may have grabbed the headlines when it was announced she would be playing Ottawa's Bluesfest this summer -- along with bands such as Flogging Molly, The Tragically Hip and The Dixie Chicks -- but so will Hearts & Mines, the band formed and fronted by fourth-year B.PAPM student Matt Luloff following his experience with... More

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Easing the pain of filing tax returns

The free tax clinic coordinated by fourth-year B.PAPM student Basmah Osman, which provides help to low and middle income earners in filing their tax returns, is profiled by reporter Vito Pilieci in today's Ottawa Citizen.  Basmah is a volunteer with  the Ottawa Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which provides free... More

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Putting the ‘pub’ in public affairs

One month into 2013, the Arthur Kroeger Educational Students Society -- AKCESS -- moves a motion to caucus, relax and socialize.  All in favour are invited to convene at PUB 101, York St., this Friday evening February 1.  Tickets are... More

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

In with the new

Third year B.PAPM student Layla Farhat -- studying at American University in Washington, D.C. this term on a Killam Fellowship -- was one of the organizers of Ottawa's New Year's Eve street celebration, which saw almost 20,000 people gather on the Sparks Street mall to ring in 2013.  The Killam Fellowship asked her to... More

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Lest we forget

Third year PAPM student Olivia Tran is back at Carleton after spending the Fall term in France, working for Veterans Affairs Canada as an interpretive guide at the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial and Vimy Ridge National Memorial, the only two Canadian memorial sites not on Canadian soil.  "It was such a great opportunity," she says.... More

Thursday, December 20, 2012

The forest and the trees

Life after the B.PAPM: Over the next 15 months, Kroeger College graduate Rene Toupin-Piper (2010) will be working in Cameroon for the African Model Forest Network (AMFN). Based on an idea born here in Canada, the AMFN is an initiative in participatory sustainable forest management, working with the affected communities, government and industry to... More

Friday, December 7, 2012

View from the North

The latest issue of Northern Public Affairs is now available, featuring articles by federal Minister of Health Leona Aglukkaq, NDP MP Niki Ashton, and Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, along with an interview with Yukon Premier Darell Pasloski.  This is the second issue of the journal, which was co-founded and edited by B.PAPM graduate ('07)... More

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Sugar rush for a good cause

Cupcakes, butter tarts, brownies and cookies -- the students of Kroeger College baked and gorged themselves over two days to raise money so that a less-privileged family can enjoy a festive Christmas.  The two-day bake sale raised some $200 for the cause, which is administered by the Shepherds of Good Hope.  Fundraising efforts continue. ... More

Thursday, November 1, 2012

Designing for the disabled in Africa

The Arthur Kroeger College is proud to co-sponsor the Peter Kruus Memorial Lecture, Thursday November 8.  The speaker is Noel Wilson, lead designer for San Francisco based Catapult Design, a company that specializes in helping developing world communities craft tools to alleviate poverty.  The lecture coincides with an initiative in which... More

Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Allan Gregg makes political waves

Kroeger College adjunct professor Allan Gregg, chair of Harris/Decima, opened the academic year and the university's new River building with a public address titled "Nineteen Eighty-Four in 2012: the assault on reason."  The speech decried what he sees as a recent turn in Canadian and American political culture in which evidence and reason have... More

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Fighting racism in the high Andes

In May, the Arthur Kroeger College selected six PAPM students (second, third and fourth year) to intern for six weeks with Nexos Voluntarios, a non-governmental organization devoted to the social development of Peru. The students were (from top left): Skyler Brooks, Matthew Banning, Erika Muñoz, Belinda Kato, Leslie Muñoz and Terhas Ghebretecle.... More

Saturday, September 1, 2012

Two Kroeger students win Killam Fellowships

B.PAPM students Avery Campbell and Layla Farhat have both won 2012-13 Killam Fellowships.  The Killams are awarded to "exceptional undergraduate students ... to spend either one semester or a full academic year as an exchange student in the United States."  The Killam Fellowships Program provides a cash award of $5,000 US per semester, an... More

Monday, June 11, 2012

Allan Gregg and David Coletto join Kroeger College as adjunct faculty

Two of Canada’s most astute pollsters and political analysts are returning to their alma mater as adjunct faculty.  Allan Gregg, the chair of Harris/Decima and host of TVOntario’s Allan Gregg in Conversation With, joins the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs and the Clayton Riddell Graduate Program in Political Management as an adjunct... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Six grads win medals for academic excellence

The Kroeger College Class of 2012 took their degrees at the morning Convocation ceremony on June 6, and six also were awarded medals for exceptional academic performance.  Alex Hunsberger received the University Medal as the top graduating student in Public Affairs and Policy Management.  Senate Medals for Outstanding Academic Achievement went... More

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Grad wins Fulbright Fellowship

2012 B.PAPM graduate Raphaël Guévin-Nicoloff has been awarded a Fulbright fellowship to pursue his Master's degree in International Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.  Though the main campus of Johns Hopkins is in Baltimore, the School of Advanced International Studies is... More

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Adjunct professor on Quebec student protests

Adjunct faculty member David Coletto writes on the national implications of the Quebec student strikes in the latest edition of iPolitics.  The CEO of Abacus Data, Dr. Coletto surveyed Canadians across the country and found a marked generational divide in attitudes toward the protests.  "When asked which side they are most likely to support,... More

Friday, May 11, 2012

2012 grad wins Board of Governors award

B.PAPM graduate Kaitlyn Finner will be presented with the Carleton University Board of Governors Award for Outstanding Community Achievement at the June 6th Convocation ceremony. The award recognizes an individual’s commitment to the not-for-profit sector while pursuing full-time studies. While completing her degree Kaitlyn volunteered... More

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Life after the B.PAPM

Heather Donald (B.PAPM '09) is back in Canada from Malawi, where she was working as a media and communications adviser with the Malawi Network of AIDS Service Organisations.  Upon graduating, she participated in Carleton University's Rwanda Initiative, working in communications and fundraising with the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. Wanting... More

Monday, April 2, 2012

Indie rock out of Afghanistan

Hearts & Mines, the alt-band formed by B.PAPM student Matt Luloff (lead vocals, guitar) following his military service in Afghanistan, will be releasing their third album at the Rainbow in Ottawa's Byward Market on May 4.  The album is produced by Jordon Zadorozny, who has worked with the Sam Roberts Band and Melissa Auf... More

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Kroeger alum running for the Wildrose Alliance

Garnett Genuis, B.PAPM 2010, is the Wildrose Alliance candidate for Sherwood Park, his hometown, in the Alberta election.  While a student at Kroeger College, Garnett worked in the Prime Minister’s Office as the assistant to the Director of Policy, in Industry Minister Tony Clement’s office as the assistant to Parliamentary Secretary Mike... More

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