{"id":4886,"date":"2026-06-04T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/?post_type=cu_story&#038;p=4886"},"modified":"2026-06-07T21:06:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T01:06:35","slug":"amoy-jacques-graduate-diploma-in-public-policy-and-program-evaluation-dpppe","status":"publish","type":"cu_story","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/story\/amoy-jacques-graduate-diploma-in-public-policy-and-program-evaluation-dpppe\/","title":{"rendered":"Amoy Jacques, Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPPE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n        \n        \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-cu-black-50 pt-10 pb-12\" style=\"\">\n\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-cu-black-800 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Amoy Jacques, Graduate Diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPPE)\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Amoy Jacques\" class=\"wp-image-4901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-512x341.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2026\/06\/Amoy-Jacques.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What degree are you receiving?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Graduate diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPPE)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What drew you to the diploma?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have been involved in program planning, development, and some early exposure to evaluation through research and did not have all the essential skills I needed to do evaluations with a high level of proficiency.\u00a0 I decided to obtain this degree to further advance my evaluation skills\u00a0particularly within non-profit and research environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What was the highlight of your experience?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The highlight of my experience was gaining the confidence to transfer my evaluation skills to my new work environment at a non-profit organization which I was doing concurrently with my DPPPE studies.\u00a0 I also obtained a scholarship through the Canadian Evaluation Society Evaluation Fund (CESEF) scholarship program and I was able to showcase my practicum project to the agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What was the biggest challenge? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Juggling being a full-time mom, and the demands of work and school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What skills are you taking into the workplace?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am using evaluation principles within my daily work: I just conducted a process evaluation and designed a performance measurement framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">What&#8217;s next for you?<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m taking the time to master my evaluation skills, collaborating with experienced evaluators in the field, and possibly one day getting my CE designation!<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What degree are you receiving?\u00a0 Graduate diploma in Public Policy and Program Evaluation (DPPPE) What drew you to the diploma?\u00a0 I have been involved in program planning, development, and some early exposure to evaluation through research and did not have all the essential skills I needed to do evaluations with a high level of proficiency.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":4901,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_story_type":[304],"cu_story_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4886","cu_story","type-cu_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_story_type-2026-graduation"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5022,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story\/4886\/revisions\/5022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_story_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_type?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"cu_story_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_story_tag?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}