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Confirmation Bias: Decision Traps in Public Service
Confirmation bias—the tendency to find evidence for one's existing views and to discount contradictory evidence—shows up in arguments about the safety of vaccination, gun control, climate change, the death penalty,…
Public Safety as a Multidisciplinary Endeavor
Ensuring public safety is inherently a multidisciplinary endeavor. For decades, we have depended on on local police agencies alone to ensure public safety, but this thinking is changing to reflect…
From Trump to Minnowbrook: Navigating Current Issues in PA
No doubt politics, disruptive technologies and many other factors having nothing to do with PA contribute to declining trust in government, but those of us teaching and working in PA…
Assessing Rock Island County
This series of articles continues the theme that government is the solution, not the problem, based on building an appreciation and understanding of its 90,056 local components. To refine the…
Alternative Facts are the Enemy of Health Security and Resilience
Lack of funding and political pressure seemed to stem more from disagreements over deficit spending and a focus on more immediate political priorities. The dispute over the number of deaths…
Equity-mindedness in Academic Hiring Practices
When diversity initiatives are viewed as only benefitting targeted groups, those ill-informed or resentful start perpetuating a counternarrative. That counternarrative: for every opportunity created to increase diversity, an opportunity is…
Ignorance is Strength: The Trump Administration Declares War on Science
The deletion of The National Guideline Clearinghouse (NGC) is just the latest example of a systematic effort to remove not only the role of science in federal decisionmaking, but the…
Making the Thesis an Option for Online MPA Students
Online education is continuing to gain popularity. New students have many high-quality online MPA programs to choose from. One factor that can set a program apart from the pack is…
Cultural Competence in Mental Health
Despite gains in our knowledge about mental illness, there is still much to learn. Without improved, increased robust research, there will be little to no progress in understanding mental health.…
Searching for Political Wisdom
A politically wise man would recognize that he is more ignorant than informed, more prejudiced than objective, in possession of limited intellectual abilities and constrained by his own education and…
Diversity in the Workplace: Are there Lessons to Learn from the University of Illinois Springfield?
What I found after a quick glance at the University of Illinois Springfield senior leadership team was quite fascinating! The representation of the senior leadership team defies prevailing record of…
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