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Journal Refereeing, Appointments, and Other Professional Activities
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

The College was active in the profession in 2001. We edited or co-edited six journals, served on advisory boards for 30 journals, and refereed for over 100 different journals. We served the profession with membership on numerous advisory and executive boards, and with peer reviewing of programs and faculty. We also served the public with numerous assignments on boards of directors and advisory councils to public and private agencies.

Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty

Jim Alm is Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry, Public Finance Review, and Review of Economics of the Household.

Bruce Kaufman is Editor, Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations.

John Clayton Thomas is Editor of The American Review of Public Administration.

William L. Waugh, Jr., is Co-editor of Review of Policy Research (formerly Policy Studies Review).

Other Professional Activity

James Alm

served as referee for The American Economic Review, Comparative Economic Studies, Contemporary Economic Policy, Demography, Economic Inquiry, Economica, International Tax and Public Finance, Journal of Energy and Development, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, and Public Finance Review.

served as member of the Editorial Board of Public Finance Review, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the National Tax Association.

and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez organized the conference, "Public Finance in Developing and Transition Countries: A Conference in Honor of Richard Bird," Atlanta, Ga., April 2001.

and Paula Stephan (with Donna Ginther and Madeline Zavodny) organized the conference, "Technology, Growth, and the Labor Market," sponsored by the AYSPS and Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank, to be held in Atlanta, Ga., January 2002.

(with Mark Skidmore and James Peltier). "Do Motor Fuel Sales-below-cost Laws Lower Prices?" University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Working Paper, December 2001.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Jay Bae

served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Society for Research in Healthcare Financial Management.

served as referee for Medical Care.

provided technical consulting at the Georgia Health Policy Center. He organized a Medicare Policy Seminar for the Center in June 2001.

served as Conference Session Organizer for "Methods and Policy Issues in Health Economics and Health Administration" at the Southern Economic Association Annual Meeting, Tampa, Fla., November 2001.

Roy Bahl

serves on the Editorial Boards of Cityscape: Journal of Policy Development and Research, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Journal of Economics and Business Studies and the American Review of Public Administration. He served as referee for the American Review of Public Administration, Growth and Change, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Publius, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and Urban Studies.

reviewed book-length manuscripts for MIT Press and Routledge.

served as a Director of the Southern Growth Polices Board. He served as a member of the Project Advisory Committee on International Commerce (PACIC), and on the business award selection committee.

served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Martin School of Public Administration at the University of Kentucky.

served as Faculty Associate of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) in Cambridge, Mass.

serves on the finance committee of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA), and will serve on the program committee for the 2002 meetings in Los Angeles.

review of Helen F. Ladd's The Challenge of Fiscal Disparities for State and Local Governments (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1999), Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2001.

Grant Black

served as reviewer for the Division of Science Resources Statistics, National Science Foundation, 2001.

Jameson Boex

served as referee for the Journal of Economic Education.

Richard Charles

submitted written testimony by invitation from Senator Max Cleland for the Senate Commerce Committee hearings on aviation security, held in Atlanta, Ga., December, 2001.

James P. Cooney, Jr.

and Glenn Landers (with James Ledbetter) were developers, with GPTV and the GEORGIA Collaborative to Improve End-of-Life Care, of the television documentary Final Choices: Changing a Culture, recipient of a Southeastern Emmy Award, a National Headliner Award, and a Georgia Association of Broadcasters Award in 2001.

Ronald G. Cummings

served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Land Economics, and Environmental and Development Economics.

served on the Editorial/Advisory Boards for Environmental and Development Economics and Natural Resources Journal.

served as member at the Comptroller General's Educators' Advisory Panel Meetings, General Accounting Office (GAO), Washington, D.C., July 18-19, 2001.

served on the Environmental Protection Agency's Project Proposal Review Committee.

Rajeev Dhawan

appeared in Georgia Trend, January 2002, as one of the "100 most influential Georgians."

Kelly Edmiston

served as referee for the National Tax Journal.

David Eichenberg

, Nancy A. Norton & Virgil J. Norton assisted the Georgia Soil & Water Conservation Commission in developing the process, rules and regulations for the new cost share program.

Served as on-site coordinator and daily operations supervisor for the new program, the Hooks-Hanner Environmental Resources Center.

Paul G. Farnham

served on the expert panel, "Evaluability Assessment for Conducting Impact Evaluation of HIV Prevention Policies at the Municipal, State, and Local Level," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., January 9-10, 2001.

participated in the "Consultation on the Role of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in the Allocation of HIV Prevention Resources," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., February 5-6, 2001.

Served on the review panel for applications for the Steven Teutsch Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, March 5, 2001.

"Review of The Art & Craft of Case Writing by William Naumes and Margaret J. Naumes," Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 20, pp. 784-786, Fall 2001.

received a contract from Prentice-Hall, Inc. to write a textbook, Economics for Managers, to be published in late 2002. This text will be aimed primarily at the MBA market.

Paul Ferraro

served as referee for Social Science Quarterly and Agroforestry Systems.

Catherine Freeman

served as Adjunct Staff Member for Education Research at the RAND Corporation, Washington, D.C.

Atef Ghobrial

served on the Professor-In-Industry Outreach Program by Delta Air Lines. The program provides research opportunities for professors from prestigious universities.

Serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Air Transport, and on the editorial board of the Civil Aviation Magazine published by the Ministry of Aviation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He served as a referee for Transportation Research, the Journal of Air Transport Worldwide, and the Journal of Aeronautical and Aerospace Education and Research (JAAER).

joined the Professor-In-Industry Outreach Program, Delta Air Lines. The program provides research opportunities for accomplished professors.

Shiferaw Gurmu

served as referee for Econometrics Journal, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Empirical Economics.

Darrick Hamilton

received the 2001 Rhonda M. Williams Dissertation Award for "A Decomposition and Comparison of Ethnic/Racial Inequality in Wages and Infant Mortality in the United States and Trinidad and Tobago." The National Economic Association sponsors the Rhonda M. Williams Doctoral Dissertation competition to acknowledge outstanding contributions of young black scholars in the field of economics.  Dr. Hamilton earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1999. 

Carol D. Hansen

served as referee for the Human Resource Development Review Journal, Human Resource Development International Journal, the Association Francophone de Gestion des Ressoures Humaines (the French Association of Human Resource Management) annual conference, the Academy of HRD Conference (Best Paper Selection Committee), and the Eastern Academy of Management Global Conference.

organized a panel on international HR for the Eastern Academy of Management.

Amy Helling

(with David Sawicki) won the Fannie Mae Foundation Award for Best Paper on Housing and Community Development for the paper, "Race and Residential Accessibility to Shopping and Services." The award was given at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning 2001 annual conference.

Serves on the editorial board of Economic Development Quarterly; served as reviewer of paper proposals for the Transportation Research Board annual conference and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning annual conference; and served as a referee for Public Works Management and Policy, Policy Studies Review, and the Journal of the American Planning Association.

Served on the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Reassessing Scholarship Committee.

Laura Henderson

provided project management on the Applied Research Center project, The Evaluation of the Georgia Prekindergarten (Pre-K) Program (Gary Herny, PTI).

Gary T. Henry

serves on the advisory board of the American Journal for Evaluation, and served as Co-Editor-in-Chief for New Directions for Evaluation. He served as referee for the American Journal of Evaluation, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and Evaluation and Program Planning.

Served by request of North Carolina Gov. Jim Hunt as technical advisor for "First In America by 2010," North Carolina's performance report aimed at moving that state to the top tier in education.

(With Steve A. Harkreader) won a Joseph S. Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award for "Using Performance Measurement Systems for Assessing the Merit and Worth of Reforms," American Journal of Evaluation, Vol. 21, Issue 2, pp. 151-170.

Monica Herk

supervised and provided services for six active contracts/projects in the Georgia Health Policy Center including evaluation of the State of Georgia's PeachCare for Kids health insurance program and the Georgia Early Learning Initiative; engaged in extensive initial planning and implementation of a database design and management subcontract for a statewide child care training project sponsored by the Georgia Department of Human Resources.

Julie L. Hotchkiss

served on the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession.

Served on the editorial board of Eastern Economic Journal, and served as referee for Eastern Economic Journal, Contemporary Economic Policy, Journal of Education Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Human Resources, and the National Science Foundation.

Bill Kahnweiler

served as a referee for International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Organization Development Journal, and Human Resource Development Quarterly.

Served as a book manuscript reviewer for Berrett-Koehler Publishers and MCB University Press.

Served on the Research Committee of the American Society for Training and Development, which works to bridge the interests of human resource development researchers and practitioners.

Served as co-chair of The American Society for Training and Development's Dissertation of the Year Award Expert Review Panel.

Served as expert reviewer for the American Society for Training and Development's Year 2001 Excellence in Practice Awards, in which he evaluated candidates in the categories of career development and change management.

Bruce Kaufman

served as Editorial Board member of the Journal of Socio-Economics, Journal of Labor Research, Human Resource Management Review, and International Journal of Human Resource Management Education. He served as referee for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial Relations, Employee Rights and Responsibilities Journal, and Labor Studies Journal.

served as conference organizer for the "Conference in Honor of the 75th Anniversary of Industrial Relations Counselors, Inc." at Princeton University, September 10-12, 2001.

served as symposium organizer for "Critical Issues in 21st Century Industrial Relations: Learning from the 20th Century Experience." Four articles were commissioned, refereed and published in Perspectives on Work, Fall 2001.

served as symposium organizer for "What can HR Learn from IR?" Seven articles commissioned, refereed, and published in Human Resource Management Review, with introduction by the author.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Jennifer Kreidler

worked in planning for Research Atlanta's 30 Year Anniversary Celebration.

Glenn Landers

organized the Georgia Collaborative to Improve End-of-Life Care Annual Meeting, Atlanta Ga., June 8, 2001.

see also James P. Cooney, Jr..

Susan Laury

chaired the Economic Science Association's committee to select the best thesis in Experimental Economics (from 1999-2000), May 2001.

served on a Social Sciences panel for the National Science Foundation's Course Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) program.

served as referee for Games and Economic Behavior, Journal of Economic Education, and the National Science Foundation.

Gregory B. Lewis

serves as a member of the editorial board of the American Review of Public Administration and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, and served as referee for Public Administration Review and the Review of Public Personnel Administration.

served as a member of the committee choosing the best paper published during 2000 in American Review of Public Administration.

served as chair of the public administration section of the American Political Science Association.

received the GSU Sparks Award, having been nominated by the doctoral students.

Deon Locklin

and Rebecca Curtis provided technical assistance in program assessment and development to the staff of the Tennessee Rehabilitation Center, Smyrna, Tenn., February 22, 2001.

provided instruction to Youth Development Counselors, Easter Seals of the Birmingham Area, Birmingham, Ala., April 26, 2001.

Provided technical assistance in program assessment and development to staff of the Carl D. Perkins Comprehensive Rehabilitation Center, Thelma, Ky., March 2 and May 3-4, 2001.

conducted a strategic planning session for the Board of Directors, Self-Reliance Center for Independent Living, Tampa, Fla., June 15, 2001.

facilitated a team development session for the staff of Community Friendship, Inc. - Atlanta, Ga., June 18, 2001.

conducted a training session for the Board of Directors, Memphis Center for Independent Living, Memphis, Tenn., July 12, 2001.

conducted research of customer needs for the Western Alliance Center for Independent Living, Asheville, N.C., Summer 2001.

conducted statewide research of customer perceptions of organizational change efforts for the Florida Outcome Improvement Network, Fall 2001.

facilitated quarterly meetings of the Georgia Community Rehabilitation Leadership Task Force, hosted by the Program for Rehabilitation Leadership.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

served as Guest Editor for a two issue Symposium on Fiscal Management in Transition Economies for the Journal of Budgeting, Accounting, and Financial Management, 2001.

served as a World Bank Peer Reviewer.

served as referee for the National Tax Journal, the Journal for Budgeting and Finance, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and The National Science Foundation.

received the 2001 Distinguished Alumni Professor award at Georgia State University.

see also James Alm.

Julia Melkers

served on the editorial board of Evaluation and Program Planning, and served as referee for Public Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, and Science and Public Policy.

was appointed as a Senior Specialist in the Fulbright program, and will be on their roster for available placement for 5 years.

Karen Minyard

served as President of the Georgia Rural Health Association.

Robert E. Moore

served as referee for the Review of Development Economics and the International Review of Economics and Finance.

Pat Mundt

conducted roughly 15 team development interventions around the southeast region.

served as the immediate past president of the National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (NRCA). She chaired the critical issues advisory council for NRCA, and convened task forces on the needs of the state agency counselor and mentoring for the organization.

served in a consulting capacity to the Kentucky Department for the Blind and the Kentucky Department of Vocational Rehabilitation as they developed their own programs for emerging leaders.

Harvey K. Newman

served as member of the Editorial Board of Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South.

served as Institutional Representative for the Urban Affairs Association and as Chair, Program Review and Evaluation Committee, Urban Affairs Association.

wrote a book review of Larry Keating's Atlanta: Race, Class, and Urban Expansion, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press) for the Georgia Historical Quarterly, Summer 2001.

wrote a book review of Mansel Blackford's Fragile Paradise: The Impact of Tourism on Maui, 1959-2000 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas) for the Business History Review, forthcoming.

received the Franklin M. Garrett Award from the Atlanta Historical Society for the article, "Decatur Street: Atlanta's African-American Paradise Lost," recognized as the best article on Atlanta history published in Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, 2000-2001.

reviewed a book for Oxford University Press on Global Cities by Mark Abrahamson, and served as referee for Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review, Policy Studies Journal, Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia and the South, and Economic Development Quarterly.

Lloyd G. Nigro

served on the editorial boards of Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Review, Public Organization Review, International Journal of Public Administration, and Review of Public Personnel Administration. He served as referee for Public Administration Review, State and Local Government Review, American Review of Public Administration, Review of Public Personnel Administration, and Public Organization Review.

served on the program committee for the Public Administration Section of the American Political Science Association 2002 Conference, Boston, Mass.

served as Chair, Herbert Kaufman Best Public Administration Section Paper Committee, 2000 National Conference, American Political Science Association. The award was presented at the 2001 National Conference in San Francisco, Calif., August 2001.

served on the conference program committee for the Human Resources and Labor Relations Track of the Southeastern Conference on Public Administration (SECOPA), Baton Rouge, La., October 2001.

served as Chair, NASPAA/ASPA Distinguished Research Award Committee. The award was presented at the 2001 National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) Conference, Washington, D.C., October 2001.

served as member of the Executive Committee, Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations, ASPA.

received the Public Administration Review 2000 Editors' Choice Award for service on the journal's board of editors.

Nancy A. Norton***

see David Eichenberg.

Virgil J. Norton***

see David Eichenberg.

Judith M. Ottoson

served as president of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association.

M. Melinda Pitts

served as reviewer for the National Science Foundation.

worked on the grant proposal under review, Work Schedules and the Incidence of Medical Errors, (Julie Hotchkiss, PTI).

Theodore H. Poister

served on the editorial boards of the American Review of Public Administration, Public Performance & Management Review, and Public Works Management & Policy.

served as referee for the Transportation Research Record, State and Local Government Review, and reviewed the Proceedings of the Conference on Performance Measures to Improve Transportation Systems for the Transportation Research Board as well the manuscript, Results Based Management in Government, for Prentice Hall Publishers.

presented two day professional development programs on performance measurement in the public and nonprofit sectors for the Evaluator's Institute conducted in San Francisco, Calif., January, 2001, and Washington, D.C., July, 2001.

and David M. Van Slyke conducted an exploratory review of innovative strategic management practices in state transportation departments for the Transportation Research Board.

served as Fellow of the Center for Accountability and Performance of the American Society for Public Administration.

Felix Rioja

served as referee for Journal of Public Economics and Journal of International Money and Finance.

Mark D. Rivera

co-directed the assessment instrument development process, participating in focus groups conducted with City Managers across the country, and updated the Applied Knowledge Assessment norms, based on the performance of over 500 ICMA members, as part of the Applied Research Center International City/County Management Association (ICMA) grant.

served as Evaluation Team Member for a six state study funded by the Spencer Foundation to examine the impact of high stakes accountability, Applied Research Center.

served as evaluation team member for the American Cancer Society's National School Health Coordinator Leadership Institute (NSHCLI).

served as evaluation team member for the Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA) Education Initiative.

participated on the United Way Target Review Subcommittee.

attended the Summer 2001 Evaluator's Institute held in Washington, D.C.

Christine H. Roch

served as a referee for the Journal of Politics.

Ross Rubenstein

served as referee for the National Tax Journal and Southern Economic Journal.

was nominated to run for the Board of Directors of the American Education Finance Association at its annual conference in March 2002.

presented"Georgia's HOPE Scholarships" to the Fiscal Review Committee of the Tennessee State Legislature, December 13, 2001.

provided consultation on education funding equity and adequacy for lawyers representing Omaha city schools in a school finance lawsuit.

served on the Governmental Accounting Standards Board advisory committee for GASB's school district financial statements user guide.

Francis W. Rushing

served on the editorial board for the Journal of Private Enterprise.

served as Secretary/Treasurer for the Society of Economics Educators.

served as Chairman of the Board of Advisors for Georgia REAL Enterprises.

served as member of the Executive Committee, Chair of the Program Committee, and Member of the Board of Advisors for the Georgia Council on Economic Education.

Benjamin P. Scafidi, Jr.

served as a referee for the National Science Foundation and the Southern Economics Journal.

Bruce A. Seaman

served as referee for the Journal of Cultural Economics and the Journal of Economic Education.

served as President of the Association for Cultural Economics, International, 2000-2002.

wrote a book review on The Public Life of the Arts in America (edited by Joni M Cherbo and Margaret J. Wyszomirski, Rutgers University Press, 2000) for the Journal of Cultural Economics, Vol. 26, No. 1, February 2002.

prepared "Economic Impact of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority: FY 2000," monograph (60 pages) for the Georgia World Congress Center, Spring 2001.

prepared"Challenges Facing the South Atlantic Container Ports: The Role of the Proposed South Atlantic International Terminal (SAIT)," a monograph (42 pages) for the consulting firm, 360 Inc., June 2001, and presented at a press conference in South Carolina, November 15, 2001 (with many subsequent press articles about the study in both Georgia and South Carolina).

"Electrical Municipal Corporations: A Review of Competitive Issues for Georgia, February 2001, monograph (37 pages plus appendices) prepared for J.A. Wright and Associates, Inc.

David L. Sjoquist

serves on the Board of Editors for the National Tax Journal. He served as referee for State and Local Government Review, National Tax Journal, Urban Affairs Review, Review of Regional Studies, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Education, Land Economics, and the Brookings Institution.

served as Moderator at the Conference on Split Rate Property Taxation, "Taxing Land Taxing Buildings: Should One Be the Same?" Sponsored by the Lincoln Institute on Land Policy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Ga., May 8, 2001.

wrote a book review of John Anderson and Robert Wassmer's "Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area," for the National Tax Journal, pp. 417-424, June 2001.

Charlotte Steeh

wrote a review of Robert C. Smith and Richard Seltzer's, Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide (2000), for Public Opinion Quarterly, forthcoming.

served as referee for Public Opinion Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, and American Sociological Review.

Paula Stephan

served as referee for Economic Inquiry, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Journal of Econometrics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Social Studies of Science, Research Policy, and Journal of Technology Transfer.

served as reviewer for the National Science Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

served as member of the Social, Behavioral and Economics (SBE) Advisory Committee, National Science Foundation, 2001-2004.

served as member of the Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and Engineering (CEOSE), National Science Foundation, 1999-2002.

served as member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO).

served as member of the Study Panel for Science and Engineering Workforce Data 2000, National Science Foundation, 2000-2002.

served as member of the Sloan Scientific Workforce Network, 2001-2003.

served as member of the Societal Dimensions of Engineering, Science, and Technology - Ethics and Values Studies, Research on Science and Technology (SDETS) Panel, National Science Foundation, 1999-2002.

see also James Alm.

Gregory Streib

served as referee for Public Administration Review, the American Review of Public Administration, and State and Local Government Review.

worked on the Applied Research Center project, Evaluation of the National School Health Leadership Institute, led by Judith Ottoson.

worked on the project, Identifying Georgia Citizens' Consumer Education Needs, led by Katherine G. Willoughby.

Laura Taylor

served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, December 2001.

served as Conference Organizer for the 2001 Workshop of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

helped administer the 2001 Water Irrigation Auction for the Georgia Environmental Protection Division, directed by Ron Cummings and Susan Laury; managed the Terrell County auction site, March 17, 2001. See more at the environmental policy program.

was appointed as member of the Editorial Council, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, July 2001.

served as member of the Program Committee for the 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (held once every four years). The Congress is sponsored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists and the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Erdal Tekin

served as referee for the Southern Economic Journal.

Jeanie Thomas

served a second term as chair of the Public Policy Research Committee of the Georgia Association of Economic Developers.

John Clayton Thomas

serves as Associate Editor of The Journal of Urban Affairs.

served as occasional reviewer for Public Administration Review, State and Local Government Review, and Urban Affairs Review.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

worked on the Applied Research Center project, Evaluation of the National School Health Leadership Institute, led by Judith Ottoson.

Geoffrey Turnbull

served as editorial board member for Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Real Estate Economics.

served as referee for European Journal of Political Economy, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Urban Studies, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Regional Science, and Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

Neven Valev

served as referee for Economic Theory and Comparative Economic Studies.

David M. Van Slyke

wrote "Faith-based and Community Initiatives Intended to Expand Services," PA Times, Vol. 24, No. 4, p. 6, April 2001, and wrote a Letter to the Editor about the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, PA Times, Vol. 24, No. 7, p. 8, July 2001.

was elected by the Academy of Management Public and Nonprofit Division members to be the liaison to the American Society of Public Administration.

served as member of the Nonprofit News Network Online advisory board.

served as moderator and discussant at the first annual Coca-Cola Student Leadership Conference, Atlanta, Ga., September 29, 2001.

attended the annual Independent Sector Conference in Atlanta, Ga., November 4-6, 2001.

served as reviewer for the American Review of Public Administration, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Review of Public Personnel Administration, Policy Studies Review, and the Academy of Management Conference Committee.

see also Theodore Poister.

Mary Beth Walker

served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Journal of Real Estate, Finance and Economics, and Journal of Econometrics.

participated in the American Councils for Education committee to select finalists to receive Muskie fellowships for doctoral level work in the U.S., Washington, D.C., June, 2001.

Sally Wallace

served as Editorial Board Member of Public Budgeting and Finance, and served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting and Finance, State and Local Tax Review, Public Finance Review, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.

served as Board Member of the Internal Revenue Service Consultant’s Panel.

served as Program Chair for the National Tax Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Md., November 8-10, 2001.

William L. Waugh, Jr.

served as reviewer for the Edmund Muskie Doctoral Fellowship Program Selection Committee (Semi-finalists), American Councils for International Education, ACTR/ACCELS, Washington, D.C., May 2001.

served as external reviewer for the Emergency Administration and Planning Program, Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, Spring 2001.

served on the executive board of the Section on Emergency and Crisis Management of the American Society for Public Administration.

served a three-year term on the International Association of Emergency Manager's Certification Commission for the Certified Emergency Manager program.

served on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Economic Development and Public Organization Review.

served on the advisory board of Annual Edition: Terrorism and Political Violence, Duskin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill.

served on the advisory board of McGraw-Hill PowerWeb-Violence and Terrorism.

served on the advisory board for the Policy Studies Organization's book series with Nelson-Hall Publishers.

served as a manuscript referee for Public Administration Review, International Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, State and Local Government Review, International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Annals of Tourism Research, Policy Studies Journal, Journal of Public Affairs Education, International Journal of Economic Development, John Wiley & Sons, and Oxford University Press.

wrote"Review of The Regulatory Craft: Controlling Risks, Solving Problems, and Managing Compliance by Malcolm K. Sparrow," (Washington, DC: Council for Excellence in Government/Brookings Institution Press, 2000), for Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 30, No. 1, p. 61, Winter 2001.

wrote a book review for The International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters.

see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.

Verna J. Willis

served as referee for Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human Resource Development Review, Experiential Learning (ERIC monograph), and Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Academy of Human Resource Development.

asked by the CEO of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), a 70,000 member professional organization, to bring “specific strengths and insights” to a Future Search Conference in Orlando, Fla., in June as one of eight scholars recognized for notable contributions to conceptual development of the field. A group of 64 international practitioners and scholars representing different dimensions of HRD convened to challenge existing theory and practice and to envision how the profession might change over the next 20 years. Participated in a leaders’ follow-up conference at ASTD headquarters in Arlington, Va., in August 2001 to interpret Future Search findings.

served in June as an ASTD designee to a national Executive Roundtable in Orlando, to discuss learning and development needs of public and private sector organizations from the point of view of executive management and Chief Learning Officers.

presented“Future Outlook on HRD” to an alumni interest group in Amherst, N.Y., July 21, 2001.

Katherine G. Willoughby

served as referee for Public Administration Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Policy Studies Review, and State and Local Government Review.

served as member of the Organizing Committee for the 2001/2002 Conference, Association of Public Budgeting and Financial Management, to be held in Washington, D.C., January 17-19, 2002.

Yongsheng Xu

served as referee for Social Choice and Welfare, Theory and Decision, The Economic Bulletin, Review of Economic Design, and Journal of Public Economic Theory.

 

 

 

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