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NKU MPA: 2025 Part Two

      Hello all! Since my last posting there have been several new and interesting goings-on here at NKU and within the MPA program! Students have been well underway with their courses and for many midterms have arrived. Testing around this time can sometimes be quite a challenge, I know that personally I almost prefer finals to midterms. Mid-course tests or projects always seem to sneak up on me, far more so than finals do.       With regard to the MPA program itself, I recently had the privilege to attend the Winter 2025 KCCMA Conference at the Griffin Gate Resort in Lexington, Kentucky! The event was very informative and the type of event which young professionals and students in their pre-career stages would benefit from attending. The meeting itself included the presentations of many esteemed panelists, all of whom discussed useful and interesting information. Topics included the status of medical cannabis implementation in the Commonwealth, ...

NKU MPA: 2025 Part One

       Hello, welcome to the beginning of a year long journey through the NKU MPA program. This blog shall serve as a window into the goings on within the NKU MPA program through the eyes of me, Luke Price. In terms of introductions, my story may be one you are familiar with. I am a a student who experienced the COVID-19 Pandemic through my senior year of high school and into my freshman and partially through my sophomore years as an undergraduate student. I had long been decided on attending NKU due to its proximity to me as well as its affordable tuition rates and quality education. I, like many of us, did not know precisely what I wanted to do with myself moving forward out of high school. At the time I only knew that I wanted to pursue something professional and likely outside of the corporate for-profit world.     I had always wanted to do something where I made a positive difference for my local community and I believed for a time that law school and...