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Outreach
- Research and Teaching Collaboration Within the University
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Joint Appointments
Gary T. Henry is Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Affairs, the Department of Political Science and the Department of Educational Policy Studies.
M. Melinda Pitts is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Social Work in the College of Health and Human Sciences.
Ross Rubenstein is Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, and Educational Policy Studies in the College of Education.
Benjamin P. Scafidi, Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies.
Other Activities
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
The U.S. Agency for International Development awarded a $5 million grant to Georgia State University to create a business-training and skills-development institute in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Andrew Young School and the Robinson College of Business are leading the consortium of U.S. and South African institutions to undertake the project.
The Office of Community Outreach and Partnerships
coordinated the integration of service-learning into the Freshman Learning Community curriculum, as a segment of the AmeriCorps Education Awards Program and in collaboration with the Department of Social Work.
co-presented with Mindy Wertheimer (School of Social Work, College of Health and Human Sciences) "Relationship Building: A Training Model for Effective Partnerships" at the National Society for Experiential Education Conference, October 2001.
served as Advisory Board Member of the Teen Smart Program, School of Nursing, College of Health and Human Sciences.
collaborated with the School of Social Work to implement a Freshman Learning Community.
presented "Economic Issues in Health Care" for the GSU School of Nursing, March 2001.
presented "Constraints on Atlanta Metro Growth" at The Quarterly Economic Forecast Conference, Robinson College of Business, August 16, 2001.
offered Pers 2002E, "Disease Prevention and Control," an Area B core undergraduate course. This course gives the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies a presence in the Area B undergraduate curriculum.
received a Faculty Development Grant for his Freshmen Learning Community, "Economic Policy Issues in the Global Economy," in Summer 2001.
taught GSU 1010, "New Student Orientation," in collaboration with faculty and staff across the university.
Served as departmental foundation course coordinator for M.B.A. 8231, "Economics for Managers," in the M.B.A. program of the Robinson College of Business. He has been directly involved with the negotiations with the Robinson College regarding the role of economics in the M.B.A. Program
Served as a Teaching Associate from the Economics Department for the Georgia State University Center for Teaching and Learning.
Served as a joint faculty member of the Institute of Health Administration and a member of the Executive M.B.A. faculty in the Robinson College of Business.
guest lectured on public goods (including an in-class experiment) in the Freshman Learning Community class, "Disease Prevention and Control," November 2001.
taught Economics of Education EPEL 8490.
served as Associate in the Center for Business and Industrial Marketing, Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University.
represented AYSPS in developing a joint Certificate in Trade, Transportation and Logistics with the Center for Business and Industrial Marketing at the Robinson College of Business at GSU, and with Development Alternatives, Inc. The Certificate is targeted for individuals and organizations from less developed countries.
assisted colleagues within the Robinson College of Business and Art and Sciences with econometric, data and programming problems/issues.
served on the doctoral exam committee for Wes McCoy, in the College of Education's Department of Middle-Secondary Education and Instructional Technology.
presented on Storytelling as an ethnographic research instrument to Christine Thomas' College of Education research seminar.
see Joint Appointments.
responded to a data request by Fred Brooks from the Department of Social Work related to the wage distribution of jobs in the Atlanta MSA.
was interviewed by three ESL students on matters of unemployment in Atlanta for their class project.
served as member of the GSU Human Resource Roundtable.
Served as Senior Associate, Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment
Relations.
Served as dissertation committee member for James Hayton in the Beebe Institute.
co-chaired the M.B.A. Program Committee for the Economics Department, represented the Economics Department at M.B.A. Open House receptions in February and May of 2001, developed MBA 8231 Diagnostic Exam and Exemption Exams, taught an extra course due to excess demand in the E-commerce Program in Spring, and participated in discussions between the Economics department and the Robinson College of Business for moving MBA 8403 to a foundation level course (MBA 8231).
served on a committee and provided advisement to Janet Headley of the College of Education (COE) for the Robinson College of Business and COE collaborative International Strategic Initiative to initiate a university-wide Hispanic initiative.
met with Anne Emanuel (College of Law) to discuss possible Research Atlanta involvement in a project to assist with identification of air quality experts for the Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest, January 2001.
served as member of the Dissertation Committee of Laura Tucker, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science.
served a joint appointment as member of the Faculty, Robinson College of Business Administration, Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations, and as member of the Faculty of the Gerontology Center.
offered Perspectives 2001K, "Global Cities in Cross Cultural Perspectives," College of Arts & Sciences, Fall Semester, Enrollment 122. Two groups of 25 students in the course were enrolled in Freshmen Learning Communities.
served on two Political Science Ph.D. public administration field examination committees.
served as fellow of the Gerontology Center.
see Joint Appointments.
presented "Global Economic Issues" for GSU's Small Business Development Center at the "CPE for CPAs" program, Alpharetta, Ga., September 29, 2001.
served as evaluation team member for the Georgia State University Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) Program.
Collaborated with Early Childhood Education faculty Molly Weinburgh and Sunya Collier in the development of an instrument designed to assess teacher use of technology. This copyrighted instrument is aligned with state and national technology standards and is designed to be completed by multiple raters including the teacher, supervising faculty member, and cooperating teacher during in-service placement.
(with Sunya Collier) presented "Evaluating a Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology Grant" at the 3rd Annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Expo, Georgia State University, April 10, 2001.
co-authored an article with Robert H. Howard in the Department of Political Science.
Served as dissertation committee member for Joy Mordica in the Department of Educational Policy Studies.
served on the Advisory Board for the Principal's Center in the College of Education.
Taught"Economics of Education" and team-taught "Leadership, Change and Policy" in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in the College of Education.
Served on the Dan Sweat Chair search committee (AYSPS/Educational Policy Studies) and on the search committee for educational research in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in the College of Education.
Served as Chair of Julie Turner doctoral committee, and as member of the doctoral committees of Susan Edwards, Mike Worthington, Joy Mordica, and Wonderful Dzimiri in Educational Policy Studies.
see Joint Appointments.
taught an extra course in the Executive MBA program for the Robinson
College of Business Administration during Winter 2002 semester.
Served as chair of the dissertation committee for Boaz Yam in the Department of Risk Management and Insurance, and as member of the dissertation committee for Nick Mauritakis in the School of Accountancy.
served as Chair of the Search Committee for the Dan Sweat Chair, which is coordinated jointly with the College of Education.
presented a workshop on "Decision-Making Models: What Works Best in a Changing School Environment" for The Principals' Center, College of Education, April 19, 2001.
recruited new adjunct nonprofit marketing faculty for the Fall 2001 semester. Mark Dvorak is the new instructor of record.
(With Sarah Eschholz of the Department of Criminal Justice) is principal investigator for "Women and Philanthropy," a study commissioned by the United Way's Women's Foundation of Greater Atlanta, April 2001 - February 2002.
(With Sarah L. Eschholz of the Department of Criminal Justice) presented "The Role of Fear of Crime in Community Participation" to the American Society of Criminology (ASC), Atlanta, Ga., November 2001.
Served as dissertation member for Dana Rickman, doctoral student in the Department of Political Science.
served on dissertation committees for Ping Zhou and Nicholas Marudas in School of Accountancy.
(with Greg Geisler of the School of Accountancy). " The Use of Compensation for Tax Avoidance by Owners of Privately-Held Corporations," National Tax Journal, under review.
worked on a collaborative project with Fran Norris, GSU Psychology Department, and Jasmin Riad, Dromedary International, on the psychology of evacuation and its implications for public policy (see publication in Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management).
served as member or chair of the doctoral committees for George Meals, Natasha Williams, Carolyn Carlson, and Kathleen Smith in the Department of Political Science, and Pamela Sams, Department of Educational Policy Studies.
served on the dissertation committee as qualitative methods adviser of Andrew Smith, an Instructional Technology doctoral candidate, who successfully defended his study on “International Students at American Universities: Faculty Perceptions of Instructional Difficulties and Effective Instructional Strategies.”
taught the perspectives course, Pers2001Y, "Wrapped in Red Tape? The Relationship Between Citizens and Government in Developed and Emerging Governments."
Served as Chair of the Dissertation Committee of Laura Tucker in the Department of Political Science.
