Weekly Topics and Reading Assignments

Please ensure that you have read all readings prior to the scheduled class

August 27                  Week 1                       Course, Instructor and class introductions – Why are you here?  What is your story, What is Public Service and why is it important? 

 

September 3             Week 2                       Public Service and Civic Engagement

Phi Beta Kappa’s Key into Public Service: The Call to Serve,  June, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_MUOjOpFMA

A Nonpartisan Model for Developing Public Service Leaders, Harvard Business Review, April 20, 2020  https://hbr.org/2020/04/a-nonpartisan-model-for-developing-public-service-leadership

America Needs a Rebirth of Public Service, The Atlantic, May 4, 2020  https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/america-needs-a-rebirth-of-public-service/610972/

 

September 10           Week 3                       Historical Significance of Public Service

Conversation with a Public Servant and Community Engagement initial responses due

Franklin, Benjamin. (1787). Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy. https://www.bartleby.com/268/8/12.html

 

What we can learn from the history of public service https://www.govloop.com/can-learn-history-public-service/

 

 

 

September 17           Week 4                       Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Public Service

John Ruckelshaus – Former Indiana State Senator, family of public servants

Wells, Samuel, Being With Sam Wells: Being with - Bing video

King Jr, Dr. Martin Luther, Letter from a Birmingham Jail Letter from Birmingham Jail, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (letterfromjail.com)

Horan, Daniel, The Church teaches that purpose of government is the common good, Period.  The National Catholic Reporter January 20, 2021  https://www.ncronline.org/news/opinion/faith-seeking-understanding/church-teaches-purpose-government-common-good-period

 

September 24           Week 5                       Philosophical and Religious Foundations of Public Service

The Preface and Part 1:  The Crisis of our Rights Based Democracy from The Bill of Obligations

Video: Lieberman, Joseph. (2014). A Life in Judaism, A Career in Public Service. October 29. (No transcription is available for this content so watch the video from minute 15 to minute 36). https://blogs.yu.edu/news/a-life-in-judaism-a-career-in- public-service/.

 

Graham, Gordon & Evans, Bryan. The Mission of the Church and the Role of Advocacy  Discussion Paper – July 2002  Read Chapters 1 & 2 https://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=engaginggovernmentpapers

 

October 1                  Week 6           Motivations for Public Service

Obligations I, II and III from The Bill of Obligations

The Volcker Alliance:  Preparing Tomorrow’s Public Service https://www.volckeralliance.org/sites/default/files/attachments/Preparing%20Tomorrow%27s%20Public%20Service_0.pdf

 

 

October 8                  Week 7                       Motivations in public service:  civil service and community service

Personal Journal First Grouping Due

Obligations IV, V and VI from The Bill of Obligations

Konrath, S. H., O’Brien, E. H., & Hsing, C. (2011). Changes in Dispositional Empathy in American College Students Over Time: A Meta-Analysis. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 15(2), 180–198. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868310377395DOI: 10.1177/1088868310377395

 

October 15                Week 8

Abdul Hakeem Shabazz

 

 

October 22                Week 9           Conversation with a Public Servant Presentation (20%)  Both written paper and oral presentation are due during this class period – ensure that you focus on their story, their why, understanding and communicating their community impact and future objectives

 

October 29                Week 10        Motivations:  Self Interest, Public Interest, Other Interest

Obligations VII, VIII and IX from The Bill of Obligations

Morning Consult report on Generation Z at “Understanding Generation Z: How America’s Largest, Most Diverse, Best-Education, and Most Financially-Powerful Generation Will Shape the Future,” December 2019. https://morningconsult.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Morning-Consult-Understanding-Gen-Z.pdf

 

Batson, C. D., Ahmad, N., and Tsang, J., 2002. “Four Motives for Community Involvement” Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 58: 429-445 https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-4560.00269

 

 

November 5              Week 11       

Brenda Gerber Vincent – Chief Impact Officer, Greater Fort Wayne Inc

Obligations X and Conclusion from The Bill of Obligations

Wolfe, Alan (1998) What is Altruism? in Ott, J.S., & Dicke, L.A. (Eds.). The Nature of the Nonprofit Sector (4th ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367696559. May, 2022.

 

Milken Institute Corporate Philanthropy:  Strategies to Serve Communities, May 3, 2022https://milkeninstitute.org/video/philanthropy-corporate-serve-communities

 

 

November 12            Week 12       

2023 Indiana Civic Health Index 2023-Indiana-Civic-Health-Index-Report.pdf (inbarfoundation.org)

https://www.thepolicycircle.org/brief/whats-whys-civic-engagement/ (Read the overview and watch the video)

 

 

November 19            Week 13        Review for Test, Wrap up class

 

November 26            Thanksgiving Break

 

December 3              Week 14        Test

Please submit video of your Community Engagement by this date.  We will have classroom presentation/discussion on these during December 10 class.

 

December 10            Week 15        Community Engagement Presentation (20%) 

Everyone should be ready to discuss during this session. 

 

 

Complete Personal Journal Due (15%) – Remember components of the journal will be submitted throughout the semester

 

Week of December 15  –    FINAL EXAM – there is no final exam scheduled for this course