Elected Ed

UNC School of Government

Elected Ed covers important public policy issues encountered by local elected officials in their day-to-day roles leading and governing all across North Carolina.

  1. Épisode 1

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 1: Local Elected Officials Can Help Stop Human Trafficking

    When it comes to human trafficking, elected officials might think “that doesn’t happen here.” In this podcast, the UNC School of Government’s expert in human trafficking, Margaret Henderson, talks about her recently-published bulletin on one specific form of human trafficking, familial sex trafficking, which does in fact exist here in [...]

  2. Épisode 2

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 2: Elected Officials Learn Trafficking Indicators and the Importance of Staff Training

    We encounter the survivors of human trafficking without realizing it. This episode is the second of three in a series about sex and labor trafficking. In it, we hear from a local government elected official who was trafficked as a teenager and learn about the factors that enabled her resilience.

  3. Épisode 3

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 3: Shedding Light for Elected Leaders: Sex Trafficking Can Look Normal to the Uninformed

    In the final episode of our series about sex and labor trafficking, a survivor of familial trafficking shares her story of abuse, resilience, and success.

  4. Épisode 4

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 4: Elected Officials Face Challenges in Hiring and Keeping Local Public Health Worker

    This episode explores recent findings of the NC Institute of Medicine’s Task Force on the Future of the Public Health Workforce in NC.

  5. Épisode 5

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 5: Elected Officials Learn Whether Property Reappraisals Are Equitable

    Elected officials want economically vibrant communities and gentrification is affecting property values in many urban areas. Learn how changing housing markets can lead to equity issues in property appraisals and appeals.

  6. Épisode 6

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 6: My House is worth WHAT?!

    Whether you own your home or rent it, the value of it affects how much you pay for it. The process for determining the true value of taxable property is called “appraisal”. Local elected officials are responsible for assuring that it’s accurate, fair, and equitable. How does that work?

  7. Épisode 7

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 7: What derails an elected official?

    North Carolina elected officials described what it means to get derailed – what it looks like and what happens as a result. SOG faculty member Willow Jacobson and her colleagues discuss what we learned: who really suffers when a local elected official gets derailed?

  8. Épisode 8

    Elected Ed: Season 1, Episode 8: What is Workplace Culture? Should Elected Officials Care?

    How does workplace culture affect worker recruitment and retention? This topic was identified by our faculty as one of five issues to watch in 2023. We talk about what workplace culture means in the public sector and why it should matter to local governing boards.

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Elected Ed covers important public policy issues encountered by local elected officials in their day-to-day roles leading and governing all across North Carolina.

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  • Création
    UNC School of Government
  • Années d’activité
    2023
  • Épisodes
    13
  • Classification
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