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Why Mastering Budgets Can Advance Your Career
Most Masters of Public Administration (MPA) students do not end up working in finance departments. But even if you have no ambition of working in a budgeting office, mastering budget…
Remembering The Importance of Public Administration
When public administration is able to address each of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs on a community level, individuals become better citizens and are able to make more meaningful contributions to…
Infrastructure: A Basis for 360 Degree Resiliency?
This article represents part one of two parts covering infrastructure and 360 degree resiliency. As standard universally applicable definitions for resiliency do not exist, the broad-based application of resiliency now…
A Roadmap for Success: The Importance of Developing a Performance Management Implementation Plan
Performance management programs are often seen as additive to the already full plates of public sector employees. The case for performance management needs must be made from the outset, and…
Rebuilding a Civic Society
We public administrators can no longer preach to ourselves about the need for civics education. We have to teach it not just by including it in our lectures, but by…
Operationalizing Equity and Social Justice in Budgeting
Despite the challenges that King County’s central budget office is facing with better integrating equity into its budgeting process, its agencies are making great strides toward developing more equitable budgets.…
You’re Better, VA—Now Show Us Your Best!
Veteran Affairs needs to better serve the needs of United States veterans. We have made some progress and many veterans are grateful for that. But it is too long in…
Understanding Medical Debt
79 million Americans are struggling to pay their medical debt. To make a significant impact on medical debt, action at the federal level should be examined. …
Public-Private Partnerships as Engagement Tools in Local Governments & Universities
Now into the 21st century, our economy would be disparate without collaboration between the government, public institutions and private enterprises for the development and growth of innovation and service delivery.…
Two Minutes Before Class
More and more universities are moving some or all of their classes into the virtual online world. But can asynchronous online classes be as good as the in-person experience? The…
Opportunity Zones Are Knocking. Who Will Open the Door in Your Town?
Opportunity zones, the new economic development program created through President Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, have caused a bit of a frenzy, not just for investors seeking big tax…
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