Meetings
Our next meeting will be held October 13th at 6:00 p.m. in the Loker Student Union. Please check the information board for the specific room assignment. All members of PAA are welcome, please come and participate, we would love to have you there and need your ideas and insights to make our chapter the best it can be. Send any questions to paa@csudh.edu
We hope to see you soon.
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Career Panel Scheduled for November 2009
Come one and all for the fall career panel. Pi Alpha Alpha has scheduled its most popular event, the Career Panel to be held from 7-9 p.m. on 11/19 in the Loker Student Union. Top public administrators will come and give great advice on how to secure wonderful government jobs and talk about their paths to success. Scheduled speakers scheduled so far include:
Kathrene Hansen, Federal Executive Board
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PAA Goes to ASPA
There were enough members wanting to attend the American Society for Public Administration Awards Banquet that PAA purchased a table. We watched our own Dr. Iris Baxter win the Scoville Award for Academic Excellence. ASPA is the premier public administration society in the country and the Los Angeles Metro Chapter held the annual awards dinner at CSUDH this year. The chapter was well represented by Lisa Prosser, James Hampton, Johnny Thomas, Deidre Knighten, Lori Minor, Muriel Kelly, David Karber, and Theo Byrne. We hope that future events such as this most prestigious one will be held at our own beloved Dominguez Hills.
From left to right: Lisa Prosser, Muriel Kelly, Deidre Knighten, James Hampton, Iris Baxter, Marie Pallidini, Johnny Thomas
Dr. David Karber and Dr. Iris Baxter
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Paypal
Pi Alpha Alpha now has Paypal. You can pay your dues or other payments via Paypal. Go to the Paypal page on this website and click on the drop down menu to select which payment, then click on Pay Now, which will take you to the Paypal website. Follow the directions to send your payment this most convenient way.
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Honor's Reception
The 2009 Honor's Reception was held on April 17th at 4:00 p.m. in the Japanese Garden on the first floor of the SBS Building. Pi Alpha Alpha joined with Delta Mu Delta and Alpha Phi Sigma to induct our newest members. About 70 people came out for this prestigious event. There is a slideshow of our new inductees, and others, on the Initiates web page that showcases a really great time, please take a look.
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$500 Scholarship Winner
The 2009 CSUDH Pi Alpha Alpha Scholarship winner this year was Glenn Heald, who wrote a truly outstanding essay on this year's topic, "What is the biggest problem facing the United States today?" Glenn wrote about how we need more people to stand up and do their duty by themselves and others and do what is right not just what is easy. It's a very good thing Glenn is going into public administration, we're glad to have him! Glenn will also be honored at this November's CBAPP Awards Luncheon, which is given to honor all scholarship and award recipients. See Glenn in slides number 6 and 7 in the Honor's Reception slide show on the Initiates page.
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The Spring Career Panel this year was held on February 26th from 7-9 p.m. in the Loker Student Union Ballroom. This year's event included a mixer at the end of the panel so that the attendees could confer with the panelists about openings at their agencies. This event was a great success with more than 120 attendees.
The speakers were:
John Ryan, Recruiter, Missile and Space Command, Los Angeles AFB
Rodney Hoston, Los Angeles County Human Resources
Jose Lopez and Raul Mendez, LA County Probation Dept HR
Edward Kulakowski, Diplomat in Residence, U.S. Department of State
(click "cancel" to view Mr. Kulakowski's bio when the dialog box pop's up)
From left to right: our panel Raul Mendez, Rodney Hoston, John Ryan, and Edward Kulakowski.
A full house of more than 100 carefully listening to our panelists.
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The Chapter is proud to announce the first ever Public Sector Connection (networking mixer), which was held on November 12, 2008 at 5:30-7:30 in Loker Student Union. This event was a chance for current PA/CJ students and alumni to network and find mentors as well as post their resumes or check for jobs on the new Toro Jobs system presented by Student Development. The turn out was fantastic and by all accounts the event was a success. We had about 100 attendees and everyone had a great time and enjoyed some excellent food. We hope to make this event a part of our continuing service to our members.
