Public Policy Faculty Seminar Series

Spring 2022

Offered in 2022

Infrastructure Policy for the 21st Century:
Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021

Bridges collapsing. Spotty Internet access. Decaying urban water systems. Climate change stressing coastal cities and power grids. These issues represent key priorities of the $1.2 trillion bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021, which President Joseph Biden signed into law last November. The act has been compared to other historic efforts that built the nation’s interstate highways and others that combated the Great Depression. What issues will be important to watch as policymakers across the country implement its provisions? Who will benefit most? Will it live up to the hype that its supporters have promised?

William & Mary invites you to consider those issues and others by joining the Public Policy Program, in partnership with the university’s Washington Center and the Studio for Teaching and Learning Innovation, in an exciting new online seminar series. Through synchronous and asynchronous lectures and discussions, W&M faculty will explore the law’s key elements while also engaging participants’ specific questions.

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Format and Course Structure

Each of the six weeks in the series will engage participants with a different aspect of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021. The opening week will provide a broad overview and subsequent weeks will address these more specific topics: transportation, energy and the environment, health, and federalism and equity. Each of those weeks will provide suggested readings and also recorded asynchronous on-line content, which will be shaped by participants’ questions and interests. The final week will provide participants with on-line synchronous opportunities to speak with the faculty presenters in live office hours.

Faculty Lineup

Paul Manna, Director, Public Policy Program and the Isabelle and Jerome E. Hyman Distinguished University Professor of Government

Sarah Stafford, Chair, Department of Economics, CSX Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and Chancellor Professor of Economics, Public Policy, and Law

Joseph Wilck, Clinical Associate Professor of Business Analytics and Operations Management, Mason School of Business

Lenneal Henderson, Adjunct Professor of Government at William & Mary, and Senior Fellow at the Donald Schaefer Center for Public Policy at the University of Baltimore

Louis Rossiter, Adjunct Lecturer of Public Policy, Faculty Affiliate of the Mason School of Business, and Former Secretary of Health and Human Resources for Virginia

Registration Fees

Participant Type	Fee
General Registration	$495
W&M Alumni	$275
W&M Young Guarde Alumni	$175
W&M Employees	$125
Public Policy and Washington Center Board Members	Free
W&M Student	Free
Current Applicants to the MPP Program	Free

Completion Credit

Participants completing all the learning experiences described will receive a badge certifying they have completed the course.

Viewing the faculty lecture video and engaging readings at the start of Weeks 1-5.
Posing questions for faculty in the first half of Weeks 1-5.
Viewing the interview video posted at the end of Weeks 1-5.
Participating in at least one of the live faculty discussions during Week 6.
Completing a final reflection essay at the end of the seminar series.
Completing an exit survey.

The course does not provide credit toward completion of William & Mary degrees.

QUESTIONS?

Contact:

[[pmanna,Paul Manna]], Director, W&M Public Policy Program and Hyman Professor of Government
[[roadle,Roxane O. Adler Hickey]], Director, W&M Washington Center