The Picker Center for Executive Education's Degree and Non-Degree Programs
The Picker Center Welcomes New Students for the Fall of 2008 to the EMPA Program!
Information about Executive MPA Open Houses
Learn More About Resources Available to EMPA Students
We are accepting applications for the Fall 09 term beginning September 1st.
The next Open House will be January 27, 2009.
Contact the Office of Recruitment to RSVP
Email: empa@columbia.edu
Phone: (212) 854-5124
Work for the City of New York?
Consider a fellowship for Columbia’s Executive Master of Public Administration program at the School of International and Public Affairs
Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) has announced a new program to provide employees of New York City with expanded opportunities for executive education.
SIPA will provide fellowship support to a small number of the most competitive and promising applicants from among the City’s vast pool of talent, beginning with the class that enters in the fall of 2009. Fellowships will range from partial to full support, depending on the number of applicants admitted to the fellowship program.
The City of New York employs more than 300,000 people across dozens of sectors – education, law enforcement, urban planning, transportation, environmental policy, public health, social services, and many more. In today’s rapidly changing world, professionals in these public-sector fields must be lifelong learners, acquiring skills and broadening their horizons throughout their careers.
The Executive Master of Public Policy and Administration program at SIPA’s Picker Center for Executive Education provides these skills. The program is tailored for the experienced professional who is looking for a top-quality, practical graduate program, but who does not have the time to pursue full-time study.
The EMPA trains professionals to be competent and sophisticated public managers by incorporating into the curriculum broad questions of public affairs along with specific analytic, managerial, and communication skills of management and policy analysis. Its rigorous curriculum and hands-on approach to policy and management problem solving will be of great use to New York City government employees, especially those who work closely with nonprofit groups or the private sector.
Participants in the program will be joining the world’s most global public policy community, affiliated with a school that is over 60 years old, enrolls 1,100 students from more than 95 countries each year, and supports an alumni network with more than 15,000 public policy professionals.
"There is no separate application for the fellowship program. Apply via the regular admissions process and clearly indicate that you are an employee of the City of New York."
Dr. William Eimicke
to serve as Deputy Commissioner for Strategic Planning and Policy in the New York City Fire Department
Dr. William B. Eimicke, Director of the Picker Center for Executive Education at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, is taking a one-year public service leave immediately to serve as deputy commissioner for strategic planning and policy at the New York City Fire Department. Professor Eimicke will report directly to Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta.
"I am very pleased to be working with Commissioner Scoppetta and the FDNY on a full-time basis for the coming year," said Eimicke. "If my fate had been different, I would have been a fireman. But working with the FDNY in any capacity is God's work."
As deputy commissioner for strategic planning and policy, Professor Eimicke will advise the commissioner on implementation of the fire department's strategic planning, performance management system and developing education partnerships to promote executive and management skill building.
Since 2002, Eimicke has been working with the FDNY as faculty director of Columbia University's Fire Officers Management Institute, which was established after Sept. 11, 2001, to provide fire and emergency medical staff chiefs with a customized curriculum of leadership and management training. Eimicke estimates that more than 80 officers have graduated from the management institute.
Eimicke is founding director of the Picker Center for Executive Education. Prior to joining Columbia, he served as New York State's Commissioner of Housing, director of fiscal studies for the New York State Senate, assistant budget director of the City of New York and deputy commissioner of New York City�s Department of Housing Preservation and Development. He has a Ph.D. from Syracuse University and is widely published.
During Eimicke's absence, Professor Arvid Lukauskas will serve as acting director of the Picker Center and Milena Gomez who will serve as the institute's deputy director.
Published: June 11, 2007
Last modified: June 11, 2007
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THE EXECUTIVE MASTER OF PUBLIC POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION PROGRAM
In today's rapidly changing world, professionals must be lifelong learners, acquiring skills and broadening their horizons throughout their careers. The Universities of Columbia have a proven tradition of responding flexibly to the needs of today's professionals. For these reasons, we have created the Executive MPA program, which is designed for a select group of managers. We believe that the program's rigorous curriculum and its hands-on approach to policy and management problem solving will be of great use to executives in the nonprofit sector, in government, and in the private sector, especially those that work closely with governments and nonprofit groups.
Applicants to the program will be considering a school that is over sixty years old, enrolls 1,200 students from over ninety-five countries, and boasts an alumni network that numbers over 7,000 public policy professionals.
For more information, please contact:
Office of Recruitment
Phone: (212) 854-5124
Email: empa@columbia.edu
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