A nationally accredited leadership development program.
Maryland's leaders have the opportunity to gain the comprehensive, applied public-sector
management skills needed to meet the complex demands and challenges of a 21st-century
public management environment through our Certified Public Manager Program®, offered by the Schaefer Center for Public Policy. The program runs 10 months in a nonresidential format and accepts cohorts of 25
participants.
A program modeled on the National Victim Assistance Academy.
TheRoper Victim Assistance Academy of Maryland is a 40-hour, academically-based education and training program that covers a broad
array of topics in victimology, victim's rights and services and victim advocacy throughout
the criminal and juvenile processes. Led and coordinated by School of Criminal Justice Professor Debra L. Stanley, the award-winning academy also sponsors advanced trainings for victim service professionals
and victim advocates and provides additional networking opportunities through its
alumni association.
