Public Policy

In the 2007-2008 academic year the Public Policy program began awarding one level of Honors to student research projects. The projects listed below have been defended successfully, and a copy of the thesis deposited in Swem Library.

Key:

• Student, "Thesis" (Honors level)
  Committee Chair + Other Committee Members

2012-13

• Meredith Gail Dost, "Representative Bureaucracy and Latino Student Achievement: A Case for Increased Minority Representation in US Public Schools" (Honors)
  Paul Manna + Ronald Rapoport, Salvatore Saporito 

2011-12

• Molly Bulman, "A Form for All Cities: The Influence of Local Government Form on Civic Participation" (Honors) 
  John McGlennon + Elaine McBeth, Joel Schwartz 

 2010-11

• Emily Grimes, "Inequalities in Health Care: How Trust may Be a Missing Link" (Honors)
  Chris Howard + Paul Manna, Jennifer Mellor

2009-10

• No Honors students this year.

2008-09

• Meghan Dunne, "Federal Principals, State Agents, and Teacher Quality: Factors affecting state implementation of No Child Left Behind's Highly Qualified Teacher provision" (Honors)
  Paul Manna + Chris Howard, Melissa McInerney
  

2007-08

• Constance Margarete Clark, "Race, Wealth, and Charter Schools" (Honors)
  Paul Manna + Chris Howard, Sal Saporito

2006-07

• Cara Michelle Lodigiani, "The British Higher Education Funding Battle" (Honors)
  Robert Archibald + Clyde Haulman, James Axtell, David Leslie
• Jessica Lynn Pic, "Political Blogs and the Democratization of Media" (Honors)
  Ronald Rapoport + Joel Schwartz, Sara LaLumia

2005-06

• Katherine Wallmeyer, "Examining Differences in 527s' Behavior: Separating the Myth from Reality" (High Honors)
  Paul Manna, John Gilmour, Sal Saporito