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Pam Coltharp, director of the Call to Serve program at Louisiana State University--a partnership of OPM and the nonprofit Partnership for Public Service to improve federal recruiting efforts--has a name for the way engineering students react to the prospect of federal employment these days. She calls it the "FEMA Face," Federal Computer Week reports. It's clear that post-Katrina, agencies have an even bigger hill to climb in convincing college students that they can actually make a difference by working in government.
I'll have a full Outlook column on this subject in the June 1 issue of Government Executive.
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
