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Five Master of Public Administration (MPA)\u00a0students represented Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter’s University in a\u00a0national\u00a0event sponsored by the international Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration on February 24.<\/span><\/span> <\/span>The program tested the\u00a0students\u2019 skills in addressing a critical real-world crisis. The Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter’s\u00a0MPA\u00a0students\u00a0took on governmental cabinet-level positions and then a simulation determined how their policies affected citizens, the economy and the\u00a0migrants\u00a0themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Master of Public Administration (MPA)\u00a0students represented Â鶹´«Ã½AVPeter’s University in a\u00a0national\u00a0event sponsored by the international Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs and Administration on February 24. The day-long\u00a0event\u00a0simulated how governments might react to an influx of asylum seekers.\u00a0Henriette Diene ’19, Erica Rodriguez ’19, Talah Hughes ’19, Johanna Soriano ’20 and Devan Tierney ’19 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11795,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11791\/revisions\/11795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/graduate-programs\/master-of-public-administration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe day-long\u00a0event\u00a0simulated how governments might react to an influx of asylum seekers.\u00a0Henriette Diene ’19, Erica Rodriguez ’19, Talah Hughes ’19, Johanna Soriano ’20 and Devan Tierney ’19 identified benefits that refugees contribute to a host country and then evaluated policies that would facilitate their integration into a host society.<\/span><\/p>\n