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The Reluctant Troublemaker
Jill Tao
So, given the somewhat pitiful portrait I imagined for academics called
into the limelight to belabor points of policy, imagine my surprise when
I was drawn…
Testing Integrity in Online Courses: Big Brother Has Arrived
While Internet-based education has obviously, and by necessity, been dominated by technological concerns the medium has, more importantly, been viewed with skepticism for perceived weaknesses in ensuring course integrity, particularly…
Responding to the Fiscal Crisis: Reflections from China
Allan Rosenbaum
This
past November, in the aftermath of the U.S. midterm elections, during
which time the American people appeared to express a great deal of
frustration with…
A Boost to AmeriCorps: Success of Stimulus in Washington State
Mary Van Verst, Debbie Schuffenhauer
Using
service as a strategy to support those affected by the nation’s
economic crunch isn’t exactly a revolutionary concept. In 1933, America
was…
Where is Accountability and Transparency in State, Local Gov.?
Adam Wiliams, Daniel Bauer and Alexandru Roman
State
and local governments have begun to encounter unprecedented spending
and budget problems. The trend line points in a downward direction…
Improving the Corruption Perception Index Rank for United States
Alexandru V. Roman
In
the recently released 2010, Transparency International’s Corruption
Perception Index (CPI), which measures the perception of corruption in
the public sector, the United States received…
Business as Usual?
Josephine Gatti
Business
hasn’t been “as usual” in Las Vegas, NV, for quite a while.
Metropolitan Las Vegas has the highest foreclosure rate in the nation
and Nevada…
Transformation of Real-time Reporting: The Recovery Act
Donna S. Canestraro, Theresa A. Pardo, Natalie Helbig and Alison Heaphy
The
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) challenged state
agencies to meet the Act’s new…
A Leadership of Public Service
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said it most eloquently, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment.…
Public Servants in Cameroon
Serving the public has never been anything easy to manage. There are two kinds of public servants here in Cameroon…It has never been easy to associate one-self in any of…
Now’s the Time to Look at University Development
“Once upon a time” is the usual way a story might begin, but in the case of university development at public colleges and universities, the story might begin with “About…
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