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Teachers and the Mid-Term Elections: My Eyebrows are Raised
The mid-term elections are just a few weeks away, and I think most, if not all of us, are interested in the outcomes of the many federal and state elections.…
Do We Want Happy or Engaged Employees?
I argue that engagement is what we really should be trying to foster – not happiness. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not against happy workplaces. Far from it. We…
Assessing Fairfax County
Fairfax County is a large and growing urban county and a major part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Division. To assess its effectiveness, three criteria are utilized; reliability, function…
Contemporary Challenges and Public Administration Education — Reflections and Suggestions
The problems that affect society today are best characterized as wicked problems. They are complex. They have multiple causes. They transcend multiple jurisdictions and are relentless. The role of society…
A Critical Assessment of Representative Bureaucracy: Toward a More Expanded Theory
Scholars have examined representative bureaucracy as a viable means to achieve bureaucratic responsiveness in a democratic society. The theory argues that passive representation or the extent to which a public…
Evidence Schmevidence: Why Leaders Reject Science-Based Decisions and What to do About it
Perhaps it’s time to stop believing that we humans survived the ice age, mastodons and murderous hordes of evolutionary wannabes because we are so darn smart. Maybe our genes lifted…
Teaching in the 21st Century: A Division of Labor in Education
Rarely are all people capable of the same things at the same time and it’s difficult to plan around. With specialized expertise in the subject matter a teacher can easily…
Disaster Lessons: Build Back Better
While public administrators and policymakers throughout the world, including the United States, have had to prepare for, respond to and recover from a wide range of natural hazard events, such…
The Importance of the Public Sector to Economic Success of Women
Gender equality in the workplace, in terms of position and pay, is a timely topic. This is an issue that has implications not just for private employers but for the…
A Good Job
My generation, Millennials born in the 1980’s, were sold on a grand idea. Go to college, get a good job and be set for life. The notion of “a good…
Speaking Out
I’m not naive enough to think we can ever actually end sexual violence, but I do believe we can reduce it and that we can work to improve things for…
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