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Example Intensive Schedule

Curious about what to expect during a residential intensive?

For current Executive MPA students, the program includes three 1-week residential sessions in Ithaca where students will meet their classmates and professors in person. During the sessions, both cohorts of EMPAs will take their respective classes, enjoy Ithaca, and work on group assignments and capstone projects. Two residential sessions occur in the summer (usually early to mid-August), and the other occurs in December.

For incoming Executive MPAs students, the program includes two 1-week residential sessions in Ithaca. Two residential sessions will occur in the summer (usually early to mid-August), and then will participate in a May graduation ceremony.

Below is a sample schedule from the August 2022 intensive for our newest cohort who began their courses in June 2022. EMPAs in the upper cohort (those who have been in the program for a few semesters) also attended this intensive following the same schedule with a different suite of classes.

Intensive Sample Schedule:

 

EMPA Students during an intensive.

Day 1: Welcome, Introductions, & Expectations

6th Floor, Johnson Museum of Art

Check-In and Swag Bags: 4:30pm
Dinner: 5:00-7:00pm
Remarks Start: 5:30pm

clock tower

Day 2: Campus Tour

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30am-12:00pm: PADM 5213: Microeconomics for Public Affairs
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch & Professional Headshot Session
1:00-4:00pm: PADM 5413: Nonprofit Management, Finance, and Leadership
4:15pm: Campus Tour

EMPA students during boat cruise.

Day 3: Lunch Talk & Cayuga Lake Cruise

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30am-12:00pm: PADM 5213: Microeconomics for Public Affairs
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch and EMPA Topic Talk: Storytelling Around DEI in Public Service
1:00-5:30pm: PADM 5413: Nonprofit Management, Finance, and Leadership
6:30-8:30pm: Cayuga Lake Dinner Cruise with Live Music

Cornell Dairy Bar ice cream counter

Day 4: Cornell Dairy Bar

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30am-12:00pm: PADM 5213: Microeconomics for Public Affairs
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch & Professional Headshot
1:00-5:30pm: PADM 5413: Nonprofit Management, Finance, and Leadership
3:00pm: Cornell Dairy Bar Ice Cream Social

Students at lunch

Day 5: Lunch Talk

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30am-12:00pm: PADM 5213: Microeconomics for Public Affairs
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch and EMPA Topic Talk: Tompkins County Local History
1:00-5:30pm: PADM 5453: International Public & NGO Management

EMPA students together outside

Day 6: Library Tour & Closing Reception

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
9:00am-12:00pm: Library Resource Presentation & Tour
12:00-1:00pm: Lunch
1:00-5:30pm: PADM 5453: International Public & NGO Management
6:00-8:00pm: Closing Dinner Reception at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

iron gate with flower design

Day 7: Departure

8:00-8:30am: Breakfast
8:30am-12:00pm: PADM 5453: International Public & NGO Management

EMPA Departure