Forum On Federal Service
On November 7 and 8, The Partnership for Public Service and Princeton University co-convened a forum to explore ways to encourage more college students to consider careers in government. Stephen Barr addressed this forum in his column in The Washington Post.
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Public Service Scholarship Proposal
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On Thursday, July 12, at its fifth annual Summer Intern Town Hall Meeting on making a difference through public service, the Partnership for Public Service unveiled plans for Roosevelt Scholars, a national scholarship program with a unique payback — graduate school tuition assistance in exchange for a commitment to serve our country in the federal government.
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Public Service Scholarship and Loan Repayment Models
The educational debt that burdens many recent graduates effectively prices them out of public service. Many schools across the nation are taking action to address this growing barrier to public service. A number of campuses have successfully established elite fellowship or loan repayment programs that help to eliminate or reduce student debt load. The programs tend to be highly competitive, which naturally generate prestige. Even if just a few students benefit with direct assistance, the heightened awareness the programs generate across the student body primes the pump to get more students interested in careers with the federal government.
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Guide to the Federal Student Loan Repayment Program
This quick guide highlights the Student Loan Repayment Program and offers statistics on how it has been dispersed in the past. It also highlights the top agencies using loan repayment programs as well as the jobs that are getting the most assistance.
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Fellowships and Loan Repayment
Partnership for Public Service and Princeton University Forum on Federal Service
Preparing Tomorrow's Public Service Leaders
In addition to a lack of knowledge surrounding federal opportunities, the educational debt that burdens many recent graduates effectively prices them out of public service. Among graduating 4-year undergraduate students in 2008 who had federal student loans, the average cumulative debt was $17,878– a profound disincentive to pursuing opportunities in public service. Professional degree graduates will accumulate even more debt, graduating with a median federal student loan debt of $92,575. With such high student debt, the government must take proactive steps to alleviate this burden and attract America’s top students.
The Partnership for Public Service and Princeton University co-convened a forum on November 7 and 8, 2007 to explore creating and expanding fellowships, scholarships and other programs to attract the nation’s top students to federal service.
The forum was designed to begin a national dialogue about how to attract top talent to government, as 550,000 federal government employees will leave the government through retirement in the next five years.
University leaders representing 24 institutions from across the country attended the forum. The forum was comprised of panel sessions examining such topics as how recipients of public service fellowships perceive government employment; how academic leaders from professional schools of public policy help prepare the next generation of public servants; and how philanthropic efforts may encourage federal service. In addition, Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership, presented key findings from a two-year congressionally funded research project to create cost-effective and sustainable on-campus recruitment models. Princeton president Shirley Tilghman and the Woodrow Wilson School's dean Anne-Marie Slaughter shared Princeton’s efforts to broaden the pool of talented public servants – Princeton Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative.
Key themes and notes from the forum
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