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Outreach to Other Universities in the State1
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
and the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a joint Ph.D. in Public Policy. The doctoral curriculum utilizes the strengths and faculty expertise of the two institutions. Gregory B. Lewis was director of the Georgia Institute of Technology-Georgia State University joint Ph.D. program in public policy for the first half of the year and serves as a member of the Admissions and Coordinating Committee and as liaison to the current director.
The Applied Research Center
worked on the study, State of Georgia Employees 2000: Mail Survey, sponsored by the Georgia Merit System, in cooperation with faculty in the Carl Vinson Institute of Public Policy at the University of Georgia. The purpose of the study was to measure the impact of civil service reform on hiring and promotion practices, job satisfaction, and job performance among state workers.
The Department of Economics
developed a collaborative program with the Department of Economics at Morehouse College to offer a study abroad program in Summer, 2001, to South Africa. The project will be sponsored by the Andrew Young School and Morehouse College, with assistance from the GSU Office of International Programs and Study Abroad. Through a series of lectures, in country discussions with industry and public officials, and site visits, the program participants will examine the process of economic and social development, as well as South Africa's role in the global marketplace. In addition, the program will address South Africa's current socio-economic challenges, such as unemployment, poverty, crime and the AIDS epidemic.
The Environmental Policy Program
has developed a collaborative program with the agricultural community in the Flint River Basin, Albany State University Graduate School and Georgia State University, entitled Meeting Georgia's Needs for Expertise in Water Policy. Funded by the Georgia Department of Community Affairs ($750,000), this will involve the development of a center of excellence with relevant expertise that can serve as the nucleus for expanding programs of teaching and research in water policy for Georgia.
The Experimental Laboratory
in the Environmental Policy Program has been open to students from other parts of the state. The goal of AYSPS has been to make this state of the art facility a benefit throughout the state and to help introduce a new tool of policy analysis. Ronald G. Cummings led experiments for Emory University graduate students, February 2000.
The Health Policy Center
, in collaboration with faculty from Emory University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham were awarded a multi-year grant to study children's health insurance. The three-year study will examine the effect of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) and changes and expansions in Medicaid in Alabama and Georgia on access to care. The study will focus on provider availability and low-income children's subsequent access to, utilization of, and satisfaction with health services. Two sub-studies, one on African-American children and one on children with special health care needs, will be undertaken. ($126,000)
The Office of Community Outreach and Partnerships
continued its role as liaison to the Atlanta Outreach Consortium (AOC) for Georgia State University. The AOC was established to coordinate and re-enforce the community outreach activities of Clark Atlanta University, Emory, Georgia Tech, and Georgia State University.
conducted talks with representatives of Gainesville College to develop an aviation degree track for Gainesville students to transition to GSU.
served as member of the Center for Urban Renewal and Ecology, a joint GSU - University of Georgia - Georgia Institute of Technology center.
developed a collaborative graduate program in water management, conducted by GSU and Albany State University.
taught a Water Law course at Albany State University, fall semester, 2000.
See Jeanie Thomas.
presented (with Michael Giles of Emory University and Brenan Stearns of Georgia Tech) "Three Approaches to Evaluating Community Capacity Building" to the National Conference on Community Research sponsored by The Loka Institute in Atlanta, Ga., June 17, 2000.
collaborated with the department of Economics at Emory University in coordinating seminars. This includes dissemination of schedules and cost sharing of some external speakers.
served as a member of the GSU-GA Tech Joint-Ph.D. Program Coordinating Committee, 1996-present.
co-authored a paper with Larry Wolfenbarger, Chair, Business Division, Macon State College.
worked with Professor Edward Kellough of the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia in preparation and execution of a Survey of State of Georgia Employees in Relation to Human Resources Policies and Civil Service Reform; Prepared and Delivered a Report to the State Merit System on the Survey Findings under a consulting contract with the Merit System. Other participants in the study were the Applied Research Center and the UGA's Carl Vinson Institute. Also with Professor J. Edward Kellough, he co-authored an article for publication in the Review of Public Personnel Administration on the survey and selected findings (under review).
taught a class on her co-authored textbook, Community and Population Health, at the University of Georgia, Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, October 2, 2000.
worked with faculty interested in health across all AYSPS departments and Georgia Tech faculty to develop a health policy track for the joint Ph.D. program between the two schools. Also, she sought out faculty in other schools within the university who are teaching health related courses. The "track" was approved at the Fall meeting of the AYSPS faculty.
presented "Gender and the Labor Force" to students participating in "The Atlanta Semester" at Agnes Scott College, February 3, 2000.
wrote "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care," forthcoming in the Journal of the American Medical Association, with Jeff Etchason and Brian Armour of the Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research (Decatur, Ga.), and Elizabeth Ofili, George Rust, Robert Mayberrry, and Lawrence Sanders of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
presented "Who Pays and Who Benefits? Examining the Distributional Consequences of the Georgia Lottery for Education," at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., November 2000.
and Larry Keating of the Georgia Institute of Technology received a grant from the Fannie Mae Foundation to do work related to the Atlanta-Fulton County Land Bank Authority.($50,000)
presented "The Impact of Foreign-born Scientists on U.S. Science" at Friday Colloquia, Physics Department, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., September 22, 2000.
presented "Risk Measurement and the Value of a Statistical Life," Department of Economics Seminar Series, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., March 2000.
directed the study entitled "The Role of Manufacturing in Georgia" requested by the Georgia Economic Developers Association. In addition to Thomas, Lakshmi Pandey and Alan Essig from FRP, the participants included researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia.
and Alan Essig provided research assistance to the Rural Research Consortium, an inter-university research group which includes Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of Georgia.
presented "The Currency Board in Bulgaria" at the Symposium on Bulgaria, Georgia Tech Research Institute School of Public Policy, April 2000.
presented "The Demand for Prenatal Care Revisited" a senior seminar class in Economics, Agnes Scott University, November 2, 2000.
presented "Tax Reform in the Russian Federation" at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Ga., November 9, 2000.
collaborated with Jeffrey Brudney, University of Georgia; Maureen Brown, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; and Ronald Hy, University of Central Arkansas on a national survey on the teaching of computer applications in MPA and PA doctoral programs. This is the sixth national survey of MPA programs over a twenty-two year period.
is developing a research project proposal with Michael Orok and Virgil Norton, Albany State University, to analyze changes in land-use planning and water management in south Georgia since the 1994 floods and in North Carolina since Hurricane Floyd in 1999.
1. Names of the Georgia universities with which AYSPS collaborated are shown in italics.
