UMass alum and current Assistant Director of Admissions & Recruitment for theHarvard Kennedy School of Government (HKS), Jamie Bergstein, will be at UMass on Tuesday, October 3, to share information about the undergraduate Public Policy Leadership Conference (PPLC) as well as the HKS master’s degree programs. The panel will include two UMass students who participated in PPLC. The information session is at 6 PM at Commonwealth Honors College Event Hall 160 West, and interested students should RSVP here.

Applications are now being accepted for the leadership conference, which is an all-expenses-paid trip weekend on the HKS campus for first and second year undergraduates interested in public policy and international affairs. Students attend mock classes with HKS professors, panels on scholarships and fellowships, a policy graduate school fair, and interact with 50 other students from across the country. Participants also get the opportunity to meet and interact with HKS graduate students. The application is available now and the deadline is November 8. The application requires a personal essay, a transcript, and one letter of recommendation. The conference will take place February 8 – 11, 2018. If you want to know more, you can read about past PPLC participants here!