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Grant Writing In Higher Education, Amos Bean
Grant Writing In Higher Education, Amos Bean
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
The primary aim of this capstone was to elicit feedback from public health and grant writing practitioners and funders in order to gather data that can be used to supplement teachings and readings for a course in the Muskie School of Public Service Masters in Public Health (MPH) graduate program. Two overarching questions served as the basis for this endeavor. The primary question for public health and grant writing practitioners was, “What are the most important lessons you have learned that you think graduate students who are writing their first proposals should know?” The primary question for funders was, “What …
Maine’S Charter School Law: Predicted Impacts On Waynflete School Enrollment, Kelsey Robinov
Maine’S Charter School Law: Predicted Impacts On Waynflete School Enrollment, Kelsey Robinov
Muskie School Capstones and Dissertations
The aim of this study is to predict the impacts of Maine’s recently enacted charter school law on the enrollment at Waynflete School, a private co-educational day school in Portland, Maine. National data on current public and private school enrollment trends were examined, as well as existing data on the effects of charter schools on enrollments at these schools. The intent at looking at this data will be to determine what, if any, factors can predict in what areas charter schools are likely to flourish and pull students from private schools in significant numbers and to compare the characteristics of …