Thursday, October 20, 2005

By Emily Walsh, PR Intern

Wilmington, N.C. - Three University of North Carolina Wilmington students who are in the Masters of Public Administration degree program received the Kline Best Student Paper Award at the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration (SECoPA) held Oct. 6 in Little Rock, Ark.

Erin Diener, Jenny Payne, and Jeff Rose each received $100 as well as a plaque for their paper, “Placing a Price on Public Art: Contingent Valuation of Public Sculptures in Downtown Wilmington, North Carolina Funding.” Their work focuses on how sculpture in public areas allows residents to receive the direct benefit of personal enjoyment and cultural education.

The Kline Best Student Paper award is given to the best, unpublished paper submitted by a master’s degree student at a SECoPA region university. This award honors Robert Kline, a professor of political science and public administration at Eastern Kentucky University, for the compassion, encouragement and dedication he had for his MPA students. He was the first director of the MPA program at EKU and then served as chair of the Department of Government from 1986 until his death in 1993.

The UNCW Masters of Public Administration is part of the UNCW Department of Political Science.



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