AYSPS faculty and research associates edited or co-edited 13 journals,
served on advisory boards for 35 journals, and refereed for over 124 different
journals. They served the profession with membership on numerous advisory
and executive boards, and with peer reviewing of programs and faculty.
They also served the public with numerous assignments on boards of directors
and advisory councils to public and private agencies.
James Alm is Editor of Public
Finance Review and Associate Editor of Economic Inquiry
and Review of Economics of the Household.
Gary T. Henry is Editor-in-Chief
for New Directions for Evaluation.
Julie L. Hotchkiss is Co-Editor
of Southern Economic Journal and Associate Editor of Eastern
Economic Journal.
Bruce Kaufman is Co-Editor of
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations (annual research volume).
Michael Rushton is
Guest Editor of Public Finance and Management, symposium on “Culture
and Public Finance.”
John Clayton Thomas is Editor
of The American Review of Public Administration and Associate
Editor of The Journal of Urban Affairs.
William L. Waugh, Jr., is Editor-in-Chief
of the Journal of Emergency Management and Associate Editor of
The Review of Policy Research.
Yongsheng Xu is Guest Editor for
Mathematical Social Sciences.
James Alm
served as a referee for Eastern Economic Journal, Economic Inquiry,
Economica, European Economic Review, Fiscal Studies, International Tax
and Public Finance, Journal of African Economies, Journal of Economic
Behavior and Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Population
Economics, Journal of Public Economics, National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting
& Finance, Public Finance Review, Review of Economics of the Household,
State and Local Government Review, and the National Science Foundation.
, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, and Sally
Wallace organized a conference on "The Hard to Tax: An International
Perspective," held at Stone Mountain Park, Stone Mountain, Ga., May
2003.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Roy Bahl
is Associate Editor of Journal of Asian Economics.
served on the Editorial Boards of Cityscape: Journal of Policy Development
and Research, Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management,
and the American Review of Public Administration.
served as referee for the American Review of Public Administration,
Growth and Change, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Journal of
Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management, Publius, Southern
Economic Journal, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Asian Economics,
Public Finance Review, Scottish Journal of Political Science and
Urban Studies, and was a World Bank peer reviewer.
served as a Director of the Southern Growth Policies Board, and as a
member of the Project Advisory Committee on International Commerce (PACIC).
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 in
Cambridge, Mass., and on the Board of Directors, Lincoln Foundation and
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.
served on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, International
Center for Land Policy Studies and Training, Taiwan.
served on the Advisory Council for the Ph.D. Program in Fiscal Studies,
Lyceum of the Philippines, Manila.
was appointed an external examiner in the Applied Economics Programme
at the University of Mauritius.
served on the Board of Directors and as Secretary of the American Foundation
for the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, Inc.
served as co-Project Director of a comprehensive review of Jamaica’s
tax system.
is Honorary Professor at the School of Public Management and Administration,
University of Pretoria.
served as Chair of the Finance Committee, National Association of Schools
of Public Affairs.
Grant Black**
served as consultant to the National Academy of Sciences for the Assessment
of the Small Business Innovation Research Program.
participated in the Scientific Workforce Project, sponsored by the National
Bureau of Economic Research and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Jameson Boex**
served as a referee for the Journal of Economic Education and
Public Finance and Management.
Richard Charles
continued to provide consulting services and assistance to several domestic
and international aviation firms including Rockwell-Collins, Sagem, Lockheed-Martin,
and others.
provided assistance for a start-up cargo airline project in Atlanta.
Afra Air Cargo will be the first cargo airline in the world to provide
regular scheduled non-stop service between the U.S. and the African continent.
Operations are scheduled to begin in February 2004.
Marco Castillo
served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management.
Ronald G. Cummings
served on the Editorial/Advisory Boards for Environmental and Development
Economics and Natural Resources Journal.
served as referee for Journal of Environmental Economics and Management,
American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Land Economics,
and Environmental and Development Economics.
Kelly Edmiston
served as referee for the National Tax Journal and the Journal
of Regional Science.
Robert Eger III
served as Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Public Policy.
served as the National Treasurer and Conference Coordinator for the Association
for Budgeting and Financial Management.
served as Board Member and Treasurer for Public Financial Publications,
Inc.
served on the Advisory Committee and Transportation Workshop Planning
Committee for the Midwestern Regional University Transportation Center
(Region V DOTs).
served as referee for Public Budgeting and Finance, International
Journal of Public Administration, and Congressional Quarterly.
reviewed Property Taxation and Local Government Finance, Wallace
E. Oates (ed.), Cambridge, Mass.: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy,
for The Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 25,
No. 1, Spring 2003.
Paul G. Farnham
was a member of the review panel for applications for the Steven Teutsch
Prevention Effectiveness Fellowship Program, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Atlanta, Ga., March 20, 2003.
served as a referee for Evaluation and Program Planning and
Journal of Urban Health.
Paul Ferraro
served as a referee for Oryx, Environmental and Resource
Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Land Economics,
World Development, and the Proceedings of the National Academy
of Sciences.
was the invited reviewer of two chapters in the Response Options
volume of the report for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project,
a $21 million comprehensive review of the state and management of the
planet's ecological resources.
served as advisor to a Chinese research team engaged in EEPSA-funded
project, “Evaluation of an environmental program using experimental
economics methodologies: Case study of the Land Conversion Program (LCP)
in Yangtze River basin of China.”
was one of a dozen scientists, each representing a different discipline,
invited to participate in a workshop sponsored by the U.S. National Committee
of the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS). The workshop
was organized to develop an international program of research on the human
dimensions of biodiversity, National Academies, Washington, D.C., October
5-6, 2003.
advised Conservation International on establishing a research agenda
on the costs of compensating communities for regulatory takings of local
ecosystems.
advised the Doris Duke Foundation on incorporating research on direct
payments into their funding portfolio (specifically, the establishment
of a global network of “experts”).
met with Arthur M. Blank Foundation representatives to discuss the future
of environmental research in Georgia.
Atef Ghobrial
served on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Air Transport
and Civil Aviation Magazine, the latter published by the Ministry
of Aviation, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
served as a referee for the Journal of Aeronautical and Aerospace
Education and Research (JAAER) and Transportation Research.
Shiferaw Gurmu
served on the Board of Editors of the Atlantic Economic Journal.
served as a referee for the Journal of Applied Econometrics, Econometrics
Journal, and Atlantic Economic Journal.
Carol D. Hansen
served as referee for the Academy of Management Journal, Cutting
Edge, Human Resource Development Review, International
Human Resource Development Journal, and the Academy of Human Resource
Development Conference.
Amy Helling
served on the Board of Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment
of the National Research Council, Division on Engineering and the Physical
Sciences, attending board meetings in Irvine, Calif., March 2003; Woods
Hole, Mass., June 2003; and Washington, D.C., November 2003. She also
reviewed reports for the National Research Council.
served as a referee for the Journal of Planning Education and Research,
Economic Development Quarterly, Journal of the American Planning
Association, Policy Studies Review, and Social Science
Research.
reviewed proposals to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
of Canada.
served as a reviewer of papers for the Transportation Research Board
annual conference.
Laura W. Henderson
served on the Georgia Early Childhood Comprehensive System Enhancement
Initiative, Early Child Care and Education Work Group, 2003-2004. The
purpose of the initiative is to support State Maternal and Child Health
Agencies and their partner agencies and organizations as they work together
to develop a more comprehensive early childhood system.
Gary T. Henry
served as a Board Member for the American Journal of Evaluation.
served on the Evaluation Checklists Editorial Board for the Evaluation
Center at Western Michigan University.
served as referee for American Journal of Evaluation, Journal of
Policy Analysis and Management, Economics of Education Review, Public
Opinion Quarterly, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and
Journal of Politics.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Monica Herk
convened a work group and developed a concept paper to bring a Building
Strong Families marriage support site to Georgia. Building Strong Families
is a project to evaluate the effectiveness of programs that are designed
to improve child well-being by helping unwed parents interested in marriage
to enter and sustain healthy marriages. It also aims to help couples not
interested in marriage to maintain positive relationships that benefit
their children. As a result of Dr. Herk’s advocacy, the Governor’s
Office supports GSU’s effort to bring a Building Strong Families
site to Georgia.
worked together with the Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget
to attempt to link administrative data sets held by the Georgia Department
of Labor and the Georgia Division of Public Health. The linked data set
will allow GSU economists to explore the effect on women’s lifetime
wages and earnings of a teen birth.
represented Georgia State University at the Consortium of Programs in
Child and Family Policy, Durham, N.C., December 4-5, 2003.
Julie L. Hotchkiss
served as referee for Kluwer Press, the Environmental Protection Agency
(through Environomics), Economic Development and Cultural Change,
Journal of Human Resources, and Eastern Economic Journal.
served as Member on the American Economic Association, Western Economic
Association, Eastern Economic Association, Southern Economic Association,
Society of Labor Economists, and Committee on the Status of Women in the
Economics Profession.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Bill Kahnweiler
served as Co-chair of The American Society for Training and Development’s
Dissertation of the Year Award Expert Review Panel.
served as referee for International Journal of Organizational Analysis,
Organization Development Journal, and Human Resource Development
Quarterly.
served as 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. He also served as an expert
reviewer for the American Society for Training and Development’s
Year 2003 Excellence in Practice Awards. He evaluated candidates in the
change management category.
served as Chair of the Research Committee of The Organization Development
Institute.
Bruce Kaufman
served as Editorial Board Member for the Journal of Socio-Economics,
Journal of Labor Research, and Human Resource Management
Review.
served as Meeting Organizer for the Annual Meeting of the “IR Theory
and IR as a Field” Study Group of the International Industrial Relations
Association, Berlin, Germany, September 2003.
served as Symposium Organizer, “What Do Unions Do? The Evidence
Twenty Years Later,” 22 papers to be published in the Journal
of Labor Research.
served as referee for Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Industrial
Relations, Journal of Social Economics, Labor Studies Journal, Journal
of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Labor Research, British
Journal of Industrial Relations, and Human Resource Management
Review.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Susan K. Laury
served as referee for American Economic Review and Journal
of Public Economics.
Lyle Letteer
authored a Safety Management Program adopted by the U.S. Air Force that
is used throughout the United States.
served on the M.S. thesis committees for three students at Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, and as Center Academic Advisor for ERAU.
Gregory B. Lewis
served as Editorial Board Member for the American Review of Public
Administration and the Journal of Public Administration Research
and Theory.
served as referee for Public Administration Review, Public
Opinion Quarterly, American Politics Research, Review
of Public Personnel Administration, and State and Local Government
Review.
Deon Locklin
was appointed to the Research Committee of the Bobby Dodd Institute in
Atlanta.
served on the National Rehabilitation Leadership Institute Advisory Board,
an executive leadership development initiative sponsored by San Diego
State University and George Washington University.
and Chip Kenney served on the Planning and Evaluation Committee for the
mid-year national conference of the Consortium of Administrators of Native
American Rehabilitation.
in affiliation with Dale Verstegen of the University of Tennessee, provided
technical assistance to the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department
Training Centers.
completed a qualitative research project for the Roosevelt Warm Springs
Institute for Rehabilitation, “The Adoption and Implementation of
Servant Leadership as a Guiding Philosophy.”
Jorge Martinez-Vazquez
served as Editorial Board Member for Public Budgeting and Finance.
served as Visiting Fellow, 2003-2004, at the Institute of Fiscal Studies,
Ministry of Finance, Spain.
served as Visiting Professor at the Economics Department Universidad
Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
served as referee for Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Budgeting,
Accounting and Financial Management, IMF Staff Papers, World Bank Peer
Reviewer, Southern Economic Journal, National Tax Journal, American Journal
of Economics and Sociology, Comparative Economic Studies, Economics of
Governance, and Finance India.
see also James Alm.
Mikhail I. Melnik**
served as reviewer of Economics for Management by R.J. Michaels
for Thomson Higher Education Publishing, 2003.
served as reviewer of Public Finance by Jonathan Gruber for
Worth Publishers, 2003.
Wasseem Mina**
was a Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund Institute,
May-June 2003.
Karen Minyard
is a Founding Member and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Community
Health Leadership Network, an organization working to achieve no less
than every community offering 100 percent access to quality health care
resulting in zero health disparities.
served on the review panel for FY 2003 Rural Health Network Development
Grants, Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (ORHP) Objective Review
Committee, Washington, D.C., January 28-30, 2003.
Robert E. Moore
served as Member of the American Economic Association, Western Economic
Association, Southern Economic Association, International Economics and
Finance Society, and the Economic Development Association.
served as referee for the Southern Economic Journal.
Harvey K. Newman
served as Editorial Board Member of Atlanta History: A Journal of
Georgia and the South.
served as referee of Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Review,
Policy Studies Journal, Economic Development Quarterly, and Atlanta
History: A Journal of Georgia and the South.
served as Institutional Representative to the Urban Affairs Association.
received appointment to faculty of Columbia Theological Seminary as Director
of the Faith and the City Program.
wrote a book review of The Limitless City: A Primer on the Urban
Sprawl Debate, by Oliver Gillham, Washington: Island Press, for Journal
of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 22, pp. 435-6, Summer 2003.
wrote a book review of Renewing Birmingham: Federal Funding
and the Promise of Change, 1929-1979, by Christopher MacGregor Scribner,
Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, for Business History Review,
pp. 135-6, Spring 2003.
Lloyd G. Nigro
served on the Editorial Boards of Public Administration Review, Review
of Public Personnel Administration, Review of Policy Research, and
International Journal of Public Administration.
served as Chair for the Gaus Award Selection Committee, American Political
Science Association, and as Chair for the Section on Public Administration,
APSA.
served as referee for Public Administration Review, Review of Public
Personnel Administration, and American Review of Public Administration.
Judith M. Ottoson
served as Board Member on the American Evaluation Association membership
committee.
served on the Council of the Atlanta-area Evaluation Association.
was nominated by local affiliates of the American Evaluation Association
to serve as part of a steering committee to liase with the national association
in planning an affiliate collaboration.
served as conference organizer, and wrote a proposal to the W.K. Kellogg
Foundation on behalf of the affiliates of the American Evaluation Association
to structure the relationship among the affiliates and between the affiliates
and the AEA. Proposal currently is under review.
consulted with SRI International on an evaluation logic model for evaluation
of National Science Foundation Centers for Learning and Teaching, Washington,
D.C., February 13, 2003.
Ragan Petrie
served as referee for Economic Inquiry, Journal of Economic Behavior
and Organization, National Science Foundation, and Southern Economic
Journal.
Theodore H. Poister
served on the Editorial Boards of Public Productivity and Management
Review and Public Works Management and Policy.
conducted a national survey for the Transportation Research Board on
strategic planning and decision making in state departments of transportation.
served as referee for and reviewed numerous manuscripts for Public
Administration Review, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory,
American Review of Public Administration, Transportation Research Record,
and State and Local Government Review.
presented two-day professional development programs on performance measurement
in the public and nonprofit sectors for the Evaluator’s Institutes
conducted in San Francisco (January 2003) and Washington, D.C. (July 2003),
as well as a four-day professional development program on statistics for
program evaluators at the Evaluator’s Institute in Washington, D.C.
(July 2003).
served on an experts' panel providing guidance to a research team that
is examining the relationship between strategic planning and asset management
in state departments of transportation, Transportation Research Center,
University of Illinois at Chicago.
served as Chair of the committee to select the 2003 winner of the Wholey
Award presented by the Center for Accountability and Performance of ASPA.
Mark Rider
served as referee for the National Tax Journal.
Felix Rioja
served as referee for Canadian Journal of Economics, Journal of Public
Economics and Berkeley Electronic Journals in Macroeconomics.
Mark D. Rivera
served as Assessment Project Director of GSU’s local government
manager professional assessment and reporting activities on behalf of
the International City/County Management Association. Participants have
included approximately 1,800 City and County Managers from across the
nation and assessments developed through this partnership include the
Applied Knowledge Assessment and Performance-Based Assessment.
served as the newsletter Editor for the Atlanta Area Evaluation Association.
Christine H. Roch
served as a referee for Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.
Michael Rushton
served as Book Review Editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics.
served on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cultural
Policy.
served as referee for the Journal of Cultural Economics, International
Journal of Cultural Policy, Public Budgeting and Finance, and Social
Sciences and the Humanities Research Council of Canada.
wrote a review of “Creative Destruction” by Tyler Cowen,
for Journal of Cultural Economics, forthcoming.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Bruce A. Seaman
served as referee for The Journal of Socio-Economics and Journal
of Cultural Economics.
served as External Reviewer for a grant application to the Social Sciences
and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
served as Immediate-Past President of the Association for Cultural Economics,
International, 2002-2004; as Executive Board Member of the Association
for Cultural Economics, International; and participated in an international
meeting of the Executive Board, Bruges, Belgium, June 2003.
served as Member of a Planning Committee for the 2003 Wichita Workshop
on an Appraisal for Ad Valorem Taxation of Communications, Energy and
Transportation Properties, National Tax Association.
was invited to be listed as an Expert in several areas of cultural economics
on the “Cultural Commons” Web page of the Center for Arts
and Culture, Washington, D.C.
wrote The Economic Impact of the New World of Coca-Cola and The Georgia
Aquarium, in cooperation with Coca-Cola, Inc., the Marcus Foundation,
and The Georgia Aquarium Foundation.
Sally Siewert
sponsored the New Supervisors Institute, a three-part program for new
field supervisors in state vocational rehabilitation agencies throughout
the southeast; 20 participants completed the program in August 2003.
sponsored a Tennessee New Supervisors Institute, a three-part program
for new field supervisors of the Tennessee Division of Rehabilitation
Services; 16 participants completed the program in March 2003.
coordinated an Organizational Leadership Program, a three-part program
for emerging leaders in the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department.
sponsored an Organizational Leadership Program for the Kentucky Department
of Vocational Rehabilitation and the Kentucky Department for the Blind,
targeting emerging leaders within these two state agencies.
David L. Sjoquist
served as a Member of the Board of Editors at the National Tax Journal.
served as referee for Journal of Urban Economics, National
Tax Journal, and Journal of Economic Education.
Tina Anderson Smith
developed national technical assistance strategies for reforming local
and state health systems in partnership with federal agency representatives,
national organizations and experts such as HRSA, the Access Project at
Brandeis University, United Way, the International Association of City
and County Managers, National Association of Counties, and the National
Network of Public Health Institutes.
was a Founding Member of Communities Joined in Action, an organization
working to improve local health systems and creating a healthcare system
whereby 100% of the population has access to healthcare with zero disparities.
Charlotte Steeh
served as referee for Public Opinion Quarterly and American
Journal of Sociology.
Paula Stephan
was the 2003 recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Professor Award at
Georgia State University.
was member of the Scientific Workforce Project, National Bureau of Economic
Research; Social, Behavioral and Economics Advisory Committee with the
National Science Foundation, 2001-2004; and Academic Advisory Board of
the Center for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (CSPO).
served as referee for Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Labor Economics,
Social Studies of Science, Research Policy, Economics of Education Review,
IEEE Technology and Society Magazine, Max Plank Institute, and Managerial
and Decision Economics.
served as referee for the National Research Council (two reports), National
Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators, and grant
proposal reviewer for National Science Foundation.
Gregory Streib
served as referee for Public Administration Review, American
Review of Public Administration, Sage Publications and Wadsworth
Publishing.
Laura O. Taylor
served as Board Member on the Board of Directors, Association of Environmental
and Resource Economists.
served as Editorial Council Member of Journal of Environmental Economics
and Management.
served as referee for the Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management, Land Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Journal of Public Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics,
and for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Erdal Tekin
served as referee for Review of Economics of the Household.
John Clayton Thomas
served as referee for Public Administration Review, State and Local
Government Review, and Urban Affairs Review.
served as Member of the Governing Board, Section on Public Administration
Research, American Society for Public Administration.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Benno Torgler
served as referee for Journal of Socio-Economics, Swiss
Journal of Economics and Statistics, and Kyklos (book reviews).
wrote a review of Political Extremism and Rationality, Albert
Breton, Gianluigi Galeotti, Pierre Salmon and Ronald Wintrobe (eds.),
for KYKLOS, Vol. 56, pp. 112-115, 2003.
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 Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Urban
Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Real Estate Finance
and Economics, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Research,
Economics Letters, European Journal of Political Economy, Public Finance
Review, and Regional Science and Urban Economics.
organized a conference on “Current Research in Urban and Real Estate
Economics,” Urban and Regional Analysis Group, Georgia State University,
September 19, 2003.
Neven Valev
served as referee for Review of Economics and Statistics and
Comparative Economic Studies.
David M. Van Slyke
served as referee for Public Administration Review, Journal
of Public Administration Research and Theory, American Review
of Public Administration, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly,
Review of Public Personnel Administration, Policy Studies Review,
and International Journal of Public Administration.
served as Best Book Award Chair for the 2004 Annual Conference of the
Public/Nonprofit Division of the Academy of Management.
served on the 2003 Best Paper Committee and the 2003 Best Conference
Paper Committee for the 2003 Academy of Management Annual Conference,
Public/Nonprofit Division.
was a Member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit and Voluntary
Action Membership Committee, 2002-2003.
Mary Beth Walker
served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Journal of Econometrics,
and Review of Economics and the Household.
Sally Wallace
served as Project Director of a comprehensive review of Jamaica’s
tax system.
served as Board Member of the National Tax Association.
served as Editorial Board Member of Public Budgeting and Finance.
served as Board Member of the Internal Revenue Service Consultant’s
Panel.
served as Advisory Committee Member for the Urban Institute, Center on
Nonprofits and Philanthropy.
served on the Treasury IRS panel.
served as referee for the National Tax Journal, Public Budgeting
and Finance, State and Local Tax Review, Public Finance Review, Regional
Science and Urban Economics, and Eastern Economic Review.
served as reviewer for Public Finance Text prospectus, Worth
Publishers, and for Tax Systems and Tax Policy in New EU Members
prospectus, Routledge Press.
see also James Alm.
William L. Waugh, Jr.
served on the national Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) Commission,
International Association of Emergency Managers, and was reappointed for
a second three-year term.
served on the Emergency Management Accreditation Program (EMAP) Commission,
Council of State Governments.
served as Chair of the American Society for Public Administration’s
Section on Emergency and Crisis Management.
served on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Economic
Development, Public Organization Review, Journal of Emergency Management,
and Journal of the Academy of Strategic e-Commerce.
served on the Executive Council of the American Society for Public Administration’s
Section on Public Administration Research.
wrote book reviews for Perspectives on Political Science and
International Criminal Justice Review in 2003.
served on the Advisory Board of two Annual Editions: Violence &
Terrorism and Homeland Security, Duskin Publishing Group/McGraw-Hill.
served as a referee for the American Political Science Review, Public
Administration Review, American Review of Public Administration, Natural
Hazards Journal, and Delmar/Thompson Publishers.
served twice as a program reviewer for the Distance Education and Training
Council’s Accreditation Commission.
coordinated GSU’s participation in Ohio State University’s
Program for International and Homeland Security.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
Verna J. Willis
served on the Editorial Board of the new journal, Action Learning:
Research and Practice.
served as Content Expert and external reviewer for a Fielding Graduate
Institute dissertation, "Action Learning: Set Member Learning Experiences"
by Mark Van Schuyver.
served as referee for Human Resource Development Quarterly, Human
Resource Development Review, Action Learning: Research and Practice,
and Papers for the Proceedings of the Annual Conference, Academy
of Human Resource Development.
continued testing of a new survey instrument that studies perceptions
of members in an action learning set, and provides anonymous, collective
feedback to each participant. The instrument allows for "course correction"
of group behaviors. The test of the Action Learning Team Process Questionnaire
has been further validated for 2004 distribution.
Katherine G. Willoughby
served as referee for the Journal of Public Administration Research
and Theory, Urban Affairs Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management,
Policy Studies Review, Public Budgeting and Finance, Public Administration
Review, and State and Local Government Review.
participated as Expert Witness to the U.S. GAO in their study for the
Subcommittee on Science, Space, and Technology, Committee on Commerce,
Science, and Transportation, United States Senate, to assess the state
of the knowledge base in comprehensive indicator systems in the U.S. and
internationally. The project frames options for Congress as it considers
whether and how to develop a national indicator system. Given her work
in performance measurement application at the state and local levels in
the United States, the GAO asked to talk with her about possible applications
at the federal level at the U.S. GAO – Atlanta Field Office, October
15, 2003.
Yongsheng Xu
served as referee for Social Choice and Welfare, Mathematical
Social Science, Journal of Economic Theory, Economics
of Governance, International Journal of Business and Economics,
Economica, Metroeconomica, The National Science
Foundation, and Quarterly Journal of the Belgian, French and
Italian Operation Research Societies.
see also Journals Edited by AYSPS Faculty.
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