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Leadership

Science, Technology, and Public Policy

Responding to the Challenges of the 21st Century

Overview

This seminar will help you understand, anticipate, and respond to current and future challenges to science and technology policy development and implementation. You will study selected issues of national and international importance, and examine the institutions that influence science and technology policy in the executive branch, Congress, special interest groups, and the press. You will look at policy for science (how we generate and implement Federal policy governing science) and science for policy (the role of scientific knowledge in public policy debate and design). Additional seminar themes include allocation and priorities, technology transfer, differential time horizons for politics and for science, increasing scientific complexity and the problem of public education, making policy under scientific uncertainties, and scientists as public servants.
How Will You Benefit
  • Understand administration initiatives and priorities in science and technology
  • Explore the promises and challenges of new technologies to public policy in national security, genetic research, computer applications, and space exploration and development
  • Learn how economic, political, and social trends affect the future of science and technology
  • Learn about the development, funding, and implementation of science and technology policy in Federal agencies
Who Should Attend

Managers and senior-level specialists whose programs or policies are related to science, engineering, and/or technology

High-performing mid-level specialists in the policy-related fields covered in the seminar
Schedule
  • Jun 1 - 12, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $4,885.00
    Starts @ 1:00 pm ends @ 4:30 pm last day
  • Sep 14 - 25, ‘09 @ EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV Register
    $4,885.00
    Starts @ 1:00 pm ends @ 4:30 pm last day
Note
Tuition includes materials, meals and lodging
Competencies Emphasized
  • Accountability
  • Decisiveness
  • Influencing/Negotiating
  • Political Savvy
  • Problem Solving
Length

2 weeks.

Locations
  • EMDC - Shepherdstown, WV,
College Credits

3 Hours/Undergraduate (Upper)

3 Hours/Graduate

 
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