As the capstone project of your MPP experience, the Policy Memorandum integrates the knowledge and skills you will learn in and outside the classroom. The Policy Memorandum will give you the opportunity to experience firsthand the type of practical and professional work often required of a policy analyst. You will identify and define a real world policy issue; analyze the issue by conducting research, gathering data and interviewing professionals with opposing views; analyze the costs and benefits of the issue; and recommend courses of action.
Previous Policy Memorandum papers include:
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act: Considering an Exemption for Denver Health
Cassandra Baker, MPP 2008
Greater Choice for Veterans Seeking Nursing Home Care
Paul Calrsen, MPP 2008
Dropping Out of Denver Schools: High School Dropouts in DPS and Strategies for Intervention
Michael Colasanti, MPP 2008
Rainwater Harvesting In Colorado
Jeffrey Conklin, MPP 2008
A Financial and Social Analysis of Prostitution in San Francisco
Megan Davisson, MPP 2008
The Tax Exclusion of Qualified Parking Benefits and How it Impedes Sound Transportation Policy
William Handsfield, MPP 2008
Alternative Response in Child Protective Services: A Proposal for Policy Reform in Colorado's Child Welfare System
Stefanie Vincent, MPP 2008
