目标和优先事项

墨菲中心 directs resources and emphasizes the following priorities:

• Building a foundation in civic education and engagement
• Promoting public awareness and knowledge on public issues and practical politics
• Establishing a relationship with electoral politics
• Focusing on professional and career development
• Advancing the liberal arts education and research for the public good

目标

墨菲中心

• Organizes and coordinates Leadership博彩平台推荐, a student leadership initiative;
• 主持一年一度的托马斯B. 墨菲系列讲座;
• 指导学生实习;
• 协调教师和访客座谈会, 研讨会, and conferences to bring awareness to and support the development of community-based scholarship and political learning;
• Helps raise the level of public awareness about and responsiveness to public issues;
• Foster an understanding of ethics and social 正义;
• Organizes and directs focused research on public issues and develops new models, 提供专业知识, creates linkages to support public impact activities, and helps initiate and guide public policy decision-making;
• Collaborates with community organizations to define and prioritize the issues on which academic research focuses;
• Offers funding opportunities for individual 教师 members, 游客, students and student organizations to subsidize community-based research and engagement activities.

活动

许多公民, community and government engagement activities are administered through the 墨菲中心 for Public Service. The Center has organized and hosted forums on a wide variety of regional and 状态 issues. The Center’s current director has provided lectures on the life and political legacy of Speaker Murphy to different civic organizations and political gatherings throughout the 状态 of Georgia. 除了, the Center has sponsored student trips to the Georgia Capitol in order for students to witness the 状态’s legislative session in action. 墨菲中心 along with the department’s Political Science Club and the American Democracy Project has held voter registration drives before major elections.

资源

The Murphy Public Center for Public Service utilizes the resources of the University of West Georgia’s Office of Public Service and Outreach as well as the Department of Civic Engagement and Public Service to fulfill its mission and objectives. It has offices in the University of West Georgia’s Pafford Hall and also in the 英格拉姆库. 墨菲中心 for Public Service is currently housed in 大学学院 and is overseen by executive director Dr. Karen Owen, Assistant Professor of Political Science.