Devry PA584 2017 September Week 3 You Decide Latest

PA584 Intergovernmental Management

Week 3 You Decide

Scenario, Your Role,
Key Players

You Decide

Scenario

Due to budget
problems, a number of programs have had to be eliminated at the publicly supported
universities in your state. One result is that certain specific majors are no
longer available at any of those universities. Each of those majors is offered,
though, at a state university in a neighboring state. Conversely, your state’s
institutions offer certain majors not available in that other state. An analyst
in the state’s higher education department has advocated that an agreement be
entered with the neighboring state to allow reciprocity on in-state tuition for
those programs. The executive director of the department is enthusiastic and
wants to expand the concept to an interstate compact covering other areas of
mutual interest. The speaker of the state house of representatives, however,
has already stated her opposition to any such arrangements.

Your Role

You are a member of
the staff of the governor’s office and will be serving as an analyst on this
issue. As a first step in your analysis, you will be listening to the other
parties’ comments about the problem and the proposed solutions, if any. After
hearing their perspectives, you will need to address various questions posed by
the governor.

Key Players

Photo of James Raika

James Raika

Analyst, State Higher
Education Department

Photo of Morgan James

Morgan James

Executive Director,
State Higher Education Department

Photo of Margaret Smith

Margaret Smith

Speaker of the State
House of Representatives

Assignment

Given the scenario,
your role and the information provided by the key players involved, it is time
for you to make a decision. If you are finished reviewing this scenario, close
this window and return to this week’s You Decide item, in your course window,
to complete the activity for this scenario. You can return and review this
scenario again at any time.

Activity

You need to draft an
analysis and recommendation to the governor. At this point, the governor is
looking mainly for your opinion. Legal counsel will be consulted if needed on
the finer points that you may raise. Specific questions that should be
addressed include the following:

What is the provision
of the United States Constitution that may apply in the case of an agreement or
compact between two or more states?

Do you think that the
proposal of James Raika to just enter into an agreement between the departments
falls under that provision? Do you think that his proposal is reasonable? What
do you see as the major advantage of that proposal? In your view, what is a
major problem with this limited approach?

Why do you suppose
that Morgan James wants to take a more expanded approach? What do you think are
some of the benefits of that approach? What do you feel are the potential
problems? What would be the sequence of events for proceeding to try to gain
approval?

If Margaret Smith is
opposed to the idea, in either form, what are the implications? Why do you
think she is against the idea? What might you be able to do to help coordinate
a discussion between the parties?

After reading through
the You Decide activity and considering the questions listed here, please
prepare a paper in APA format. The paper should be written to the governor with
a brief summary of the overall issue and responses to the specific questions
posed above. The paper should be double spaced, 11-point or 12-point type, and
between 750 and 1,500 words.