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The American Society for Public Administration is the largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. It is dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration.
The American Society for Public Administration is the largest and most prominent professional association for public administration. It is dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration.
Education: The True American Dream
If you work hard enough, you can achieve anything you set your mind to do. I see this truth in education. Growing up in a town where rich and poor…
Publishing and Perishing as a Doctoral Student
Writing, editing, submitting, revising, resubmitting, selecting… each stage comes with its own challenges, but the choice is yours to ultimately publish or perish.…
Inequality as a Demographic Shift and Local Government Adaptation
American communities are shifting rapidly in terms of demographic structure. In this article, I discuss how income inequality is affecting the ability of local government to provide services. And, toward…
Lesson Learned: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) – How Project Management Improves the Stockpiling and Management of Nuclear Material
While efforts are being made to stop the use of nuclear material to harm citizens, there is an agency which advocates for the use of nuclear science to advance society’s…
Ten Notable Resources for Identifying When and How to Collaborate
Here we present resources on diagnosing opportunities for cross-sector collaboration – tools, reports and scholarly articles to help leaders assess whether cross-sector collaboration is needed, which form of collaboration is…
Measuring the Community Impact of Faculty
As the director of an MPA program at an urban research university, I have the responsibility to build enrollments, monitor and assess teaching and student success, foster an environment where…
Predicting the Unpredictable: BRAC impact on Local Government
Military spending by the federal government is a powerful economic stimulator. Since the funds are coming from federal tax revenues, they have a multiplier effect on the region in which…
The United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals and the Building of a Good Society: A Modest Proposal for the Public Administration Education and Training Community
When the United Nations (UN) announced in 2000 a 15-year effort to implement eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it began what arguably was the most significant worldwide effort to build…
Nineteenth Amendment
Where a woman’s place is has never been quite decided. My girlfriends and I subtly dispute this often over brunch. Should I get married? Would I want to be a…
Taking a Knee – Revisited
One year ago I wrote my Public Administration Times column on Collin Kaepernick’s “taking a knee.” Since then, some of what I stated has come true. For example, NFL team…
Summing Up: Reflections from Japan on “Good” Public Governance – Local, National and Global
My articles avoided the so-called “best practice” approach, and emphasized more on the deficiencies in the Japanese practices in light of the UN good public governance principles. I love my…
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