Promote the Public Affairs Mission

Advance the public affairs mission by promoting the public affairs certificate and integrating it into the general education curriculum. The first-year seminar will be redesigned to focus on public affairs and practical skills, while public affairs courses across the curriculum will be identified and incentivized:

Increase public affairs credentials

  • Promote the public affairs certificate recently approved by the Faculty Senate.
  • Increase the prominence of public affairs in the general education curriculum; incorporate the public affairs certificate or variants, so most MSU students complete it.
  • Develop alternative certificates targeting transfer students.

Redesign first-year seminar

  • Create public affairs focus and incorporate the three pillars.
  • Narrow goals to emphasize practical skills for college.
  • Expand to full-semester 3-credit course.
  • Reevaluate how GEP teaching is incentivized to ensure staffing needs are met.

Identify public affairs courses across the curriculum

  • Determine what public affairs courses or course elements already exist within programs (including and in addition to existing public affairs capstones).
  • Incorporate upper-division, public-affairs-designated courses into the public affairs certificate.
  • Incentivize inclusion of an explicit public affairs component in newly created courses.