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Are We Using Hiring Interviews to Confirm or to Learn?
Recent research conducted with women leaders in government asked what challenges these women experienced in their career progression. Surprisingly, many women called out difficulties with the interview process.…
Food is a Shaman: Part 2. A Two-Part Commentary on a Community Based Externship in Sitka, Alaska
The Sitka Food Co-op, an example of consumer-owned cooperatives, demonstrates a locally-based economic model that takes capital out of the hands of grocery giants and invests it back in the…
A Profile in Public Leadership: Learning from the Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher was authentic—she did not change who she was just to suit a particular circumstance. Here are some leadership lessons we can learn from Margaret Thatcher’s public service to…
Transferring Our Energy
Burnout can be difficult to identify, especially when we are used to working long hours and days to get through a project. However, in order to call ourselves leaders in…
Social Vulnerability: Reframing Our Models of Service Delivery
Public agencies aim to provide service delivery in a professional, unbiased manner to the entire community. Generally, they do well providing services to the majority, but they might not always…
The Proposed Expansion of the United States Social System Won’t Increase Government
If enacted, The American Families Plan will expand availability of childcare, education and income support to families of modest means, particularly in the states which rise to the challenge. …
2025 Public Administration Retreat Agenda
Given all of the challenges that those working in the public sector have faced over the last few years…wouldn’t it be timely to organize a first-of-its-kind Public Administration Retreat? …
COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout: A True Test of the Bureaucracy
Economic power, politics and ethics are three main independent variables in the vaccine rollout equation. Unless all are well, no one is going to be well. …
Parent Perceptions of Child Vaccinations and In-Person Schooling
A recent Virginia Department of Emergency Management COVID-19 Hesitancy Poll, conducted by the Research Institute for Social Equity (RISE) at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs…
Public Safety, Wildland Interface and COVID-19
The increase and severity in wildfires throughout the world calls for a cadre of unique people trained and ready to serve as wildland firefighters. In 2020, first responders experienced many…
Minneapolis Part 2: The Cost of Inequality of Opportunity
The killing of George Floyd sent shock waves throughout our nation and the world, forcing endless questions that included one important to our profession; why are these long-neglected issues of…
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