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Status Quo and Loss of Direction
Winston Churchill, the former British Prime Minister and one of the greatest wartime leaders of modern history, was voted out of office in July 1945, just two months following the…
Social Justice in Southside Chicago
American history is fraught with thousands of examples of community groups that brought national attention to their causes and community needs. These groups force us, as public and nonprofit managers,…
Navigating Religion and Public Service with an Increasingly Diverse Workforce
It is rare for the discipline of public administration to acknowledge religious inclinations as a public service motivation. This lack of attention or appreciation does not negate the very real…
Dreamers, DACA and the Fourteenth Amendment
While it’s stated there are over 800,000 DACA recipients in this country currently, Rhode Island’s numbers hover somewhere around 1,200. Under the Trump Administration, only 250 qualify for DACA renewal.…
Teaching through Multimedia: Adding Diagrams to Enhance Public Administration Course Delivery
Frequently used in textbooks, diagrams also add clarity to the traditional educational lecture format, supporting students’ understanding by illustrating and organizing concepts and theories, and by modeling relationships between them.…
Employee Valuation: The “A-ha” Moment!
Are Administrators not investing in people because of low output (read: productivity and widgets), or, as Administrators, have we underinvested in our greatest commodity: People? We must have an “A-ha”…
State of the Nation in U.S. Healthcare: What Has Changed for 2018?
One short year ago, with inauguration of a new President and more conservative Congressional control, American citizens were pondering the future of not only the Patient Protection and Affordable Care…
Teleological Approaches to Wildfires
As leaders in charge of public safety, administrators must look outside the box and reframe their ethical perspectives in decision making. It is time to shift the focus of fire…
Where are Government’s Great Places to Work?
The train has left the station. In every other sector there is a focus on the policies and practices which make organizations “great places to work.” Government’s workforce problems—the aging…
Leadership Lessons We Can Learn from Dr. Martin Luther King’s Life of Service
King finished the speech outline at about midnight and then wrote a draft in longhand. One of his aides who went to King's suite that night saw words crossed out…
Pitching Politics
People pay taxes to their local state and federal government, as required by law, without consideration of specific services government provides. In the private sector, people choose to pay for…
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