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Government Leaders: Assess Your Cybersecurity Performance with NIST Resources
How do you know as a government leader if you are doing enough to address cybersecurity risks? One way to find out is to assess your organization’s cybersecurity performance using…
Ethical Lapses: Acid Tests for Public Administrators
These ethical lapses can be small or large, transpire in public or private, and, although unethical, may be completely legal. No matter the magnitude, degree others are aware or legality,…
Creating Pathways for Student Engagement
Engagement outside the classroom allows students to develop their skills, gain new opportunities and contribute to their universities and communities. Though creating opportunities for student engagement involves time and resources,…
Positive and Negative Virtues, and Future Directions in Online Education for Public Administration
Though intrinsic motivations differ for learners at various points in their lifespans, a focus on exploration, analysi and engaged interaction has shaped our understanding of learning techniques. There has been…
“Include Women on Your Boards or Face Penalties”: California Mandates Corporations
The lack of diversity in employment is a challenge in both the public and private sectors and while many organizations have taken several actions to address it, the gap remains…
21st Century Higher Education in America: A Reason for Alarm?
Is the reason for rising higher education cost due to the importance of this service in opening avenues of social mobility for low-income and middle-income American citizens and their families? Rising…
The Enduring Mystery of Performance Management
A search on “performance management” found nine PA Times columns posted in 2018 and a total of 45 pages listing prior columns on the subject back to 2010 when the…
Understanding Governance Through Perceptions
The term "governance" is both vague and contested. H. George Frederickson calls the term a “fashionable” and “imprecise” “catchall phrase.” Nonetheless the term is commonly deployed in the public administration…
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…
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.…
The Future Is Now- The Rebuilding or Deconstruction of Public Administration
This column explores the future of public administration. What characteristics will we identify with the next epoch? To help in this exploration questionnaires were sent to practitioners and academics asking…
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