General Information
Once you declare Public Policy as your major, you will be assigned an academic advisor. You are expected to check in with your advisor regularly to know what classes you need to complete while making time to explore your interests and passions beyond the classroom. Your advisor can help you identify research, service, club, and internship opportunities in addition to offering academic support should you want to grow your time management or study skills.
You will schedule appointments through Navigate.
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Public Policy majors and minors: You can make a meeting on Navigate under Advising.
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Exploring/Declaring the major: You can make a meeting on Navigate under Advising. When you select the reason, you'll scroll toward the bottom of the list, where it should say "Explore how to declare or change majors." There, select Public Policy.
What is Advising? How Do I Access It?
Advising Resources
Your Advising Team
Faith Nussbaum
Director of Undergraduate Advising, School of Public Policy - Public Policy & Legal Studies
Faith Nussbaum oversees advising for the undergraduate programs within the School of Public Policy. She advises students and takes the lead on study abroad/domestic exchange/transfer class pre-approvals, internship advising, navigating extenuating circumstances including return from suspension/dismissal and GPA concerns.
Your Faculty Leadership
Brenda Bushouse
Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Policy Undergraduate Program Director
Brenda K. Bushouse’s research program has two intersecting foci: The first is a lasting interest in the realm of activity that is neither market nor state. She researches the politics of nonprofit organizations in the policy process (see “Leveraging Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Research to Inform Public Policy” and “The intermediary roles of foundations in the policy process: building coalitions of interest”). She is intrigued by the work of people and organizations who work to fulfill a social mission and is particularly interested in utilizing institutional analysis (see “Governance Structures: Using IAD to Understand Variation in Service Delivery for Club Goods with Information Asymmetry” and “Elinor Ostrom’s Contribution to Nonprofit and Voluntary Action Studies”). She is collaborating with Brent Never (UMKC) and Rob Christensen (BYU) on developing a conceptual understanding of philanthropy as a commons and the institutional arrangements that deplete or maintain donations for a common cause (see “Philanthropy as Commons: An Overview for Discussion”).
Kelsey Shoub
Assistant Professor of Public Policy,
Public Policy Honors Program Director
Kelsey Shoub is an assistant professor at the School of Public Policy. Her research examines two broad questions: How do descriptive identities (e.g., race and gender) of officials and civilians intersect with context and policy to shape outcomes; and How does language relate to policy and perceptions of politics? To explore these questions, she collects and analyzes large data sets using statistical and machine learning techniques, which she complements with experimental methods.