CPPA students, faculty, alumni and friends are invited to this year’s Capstone Conference on May 7 and 8, to be held in Gordon 302-304. During the conference, graduating students will present their capstone projects and take questions from the audience. The full schedule is below; advisors’ names and affiliations are in parentheses.
Tuesday, May 7
9 a.m.
Anna Ivanova, Preventing Congestive Heart Failure Readmissions with Social Impact Bonds: A Feasibility Assessment (Social Finance, Inc.)
9:25 a.m.
Krista Solie, Encouraging Spanish-Speaking Parent Involvement: Overcoming the Barriers at Crocker Farm Elementary School, (Krista Harper, anthropology and public policy)
9:50 a.m.
Fran Hutchins, What Happens When We Win: A Comparative Case Study of Three Statewide LGBTQ Advocacy Groups Post Marriage Equality, (Steve Boutcher, sociology and public policy, and Martha Fuentes-Bautista, communication and public policy)
10:20 a.m.
Matthew Kushi, The Education of a Farmer: Agricultural Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (John Gerber, Stockbridge School of Agriculture)
10:45 a.m.
Rose Egan, Fostering Connections: A Potential Game Changer for Connecticut to Ease Kids’ Transition from DCF to Adulthood (Kathryn McDermott, education and public policy)
11:10 a.m.
Kevin Moforte, Social Enterprise in Latin America: Dimensions of Online Collaboration between Social Entrepreneurs in Brazil, Columbia and Chile (Charles Schweik, environmental conservation and public policy, and Martha Fuentes-Bautista, communication and public policy)
11:40 a.m.
Anatoliy Solnyshkin, What Kazakhstan Can Learn from the U.S. about Securing the Labor Rights of the People with Disabilities
12:05 p.m.
Brian Greenleaf, CREC Student Wellness Policy: A School-Based Assessment of Implementation
Wednesday, May 8
9 a.m.
Anna Fung-Morley, The Academic Experiences and Childcare Arrangements of Student Mothers at a Community College (Kathryn McDermott, education and public policy)
9:25 a.m.
Alan Dallmann, The Non-Federal Match Requirement for Head Start: Why does it Exist and How does it Affect a Local Head Start Program? (Nancy Folbre, economics)
9:50 a.m.
Vanessa Megaw, Can a Default Option Reduce Default Rates? Federal Student Loan Default Reduction Strategies and the Income-Based Repayment Program (Gerald Epstein, economics)
10:20 a.m.
Maya Kumazawa, Civic Engagement in Local Arts Agencies (Martha Fuentes-Bautista, communication and public policy; Krista Harper, anthropology and public policy; and Barbara Schaffer-Bacon, Americans for the Arts)
10:45 a.m.
Michael Sedelmeyer, Sustaining Public Sector Innovation in Boston City Government: Making Innovation the Work of City Government and the Case of the Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (Jane Fountain, political science and public policy)
11:10 a.m.
Gulchekhra Khuseynova, Social and Economic Impacts of Labor Migration on Migrants’ Households in Tajikistan: Working out Policy Recommendations to Address its Negative Effects
11:40 a.m.
Dwi Simanungkalit, Reformation of Governance Model and Market Orientation of Country Code Top Level Domain .Indonesia (ccTLD.id) Research on Internet Resources; Domain Name (Jane Fountain, political science and public policy)
12:05 p.m.
Jennifer Berman, Collaborative Social Change Models: Lessons from Six Case Studies (Craig Nicolson, environmental conservation)