Michael Ackerman Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

New York, NY

• Designing treatment/service plans, teaching money management, vocational counseling, and stress management skills to approximately 20 high-risk clients
• Managing the dispersal of a $20,000 educational enrichment grant for children and young adults living with their parents in the Scatter Site Housing Program.

Bloomington, Indiana

• Graduate Assistant for Creation of the Experiential Capstone for the Online MPA
• Created a 12-point advice rubric for graduate students involved in a semester-long project for a single client, encompassing work group, client management, and intellectual challenges.
• Responsible for the creation of six module templates, which were necessary components of the syllabus.
• Designed a core competency and self-evaluation rubric to assist with skill development.

Bloomington, Indiana

• Assisted with grading and one-on-one and small group instruction for undergraduate Labor Relations and Human Resources, National and International Policy, and Environmental Law courses.
• Created case studies for use in the department’s introductory public policy course (National and International Policy).

• Designed treatment/service plans, taught money management, vocational counseling, and stress management skills to approximately 30 high-risk clients (long-term street homelesspopulation).
• Assisted clients with finding housing and making the transition from a shelter environment to permanent housing.
• Managed the site’s pre-employment skill development program (ESTEEM).

New Brunswick, NJ

• Teaching Assistant in the Department of Political Science (course name—Law and Politics)
• Designed and administered lesson plans for discussion sections of a lecture course.
• Teaching effectiveness rating of 4.36 (Fall 2005) and 4.32 (Spring 2006) on a five point scale (according to student evaluations).
• Sole teaching responsibility for the Summer 2006 Law and Politics course.

• Designed treatment/service plans, taught money management, vocational counseling, and stress management skills to approximately 40 high-risk clients.
• Co-leadership role in a weekly client meeting focusing on substance abuse.

M.P.A., Policy Analysis Concentration

M.A., Political Science

B.A., Politics