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For some time now, the public higher education policy arena has been flooded with ideas and debates on how to make institutions more affordable and accessible. To complicate matters, there…
Public administration has a strong tradition of advocating for open government and ethical administrative practices in our public agencies. The ICMA, for example, developed elements for governments to be more…
Green jobs, the Keystone XL Pipeline and fracking are relatively recent terms to enter our political lexicon, but they will appear near the top of policy agendas in 2015. The…
It appears there are daily news stories of a public sector employee’s failure to exhibit appropriate ethical competencies. With the number of these stories presented for public consumption, one may…
What exactly is open government? This can be a difficult question to answer as our society has engaged the throttle for Internet access into overdrive. Our society almost completely operates…
Previous columns dealt with emerging benchmarks and best practices in public administration in light of the high-tech revolution and the transition from the modern, industrial age to the postmodern, information…
Masking is when an organization appears culturally competent, but its ulterior motive is to maintain power and control within a select organizational group. An organization engaged in masking may have…
Recently, the Department of Justice took the position that the protection of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to claims of discrimination based on an individual’s…
In a recent study highlighted in the Nonprofit Quarterly, the researchers found that 97 percent of the 500 organizations studied were using Facebook. Nonprofit organizations absolutely need to have a…
In my conversations with faculty across the United States, it is apparent that many professors, particularly tenure-track assistant professors, feel that taking time to write about pedagogy and the impact…
A reality of today’s global economy is large, middle market and even small companies need to gain access to global markets. Seventy percent of the world’s customers are outside of…