Outreach - University, College and Department Service
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

James Alm is Chair of the Department of Economics. He supervised Elizabeth Wotawa, Tulane University, in the AYSPS Summer Intern program. He was a member of the Department of Economics Program Review, the AYSPS-College of Education Dan Sweat Chair search committee, the GSU Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Committee, Social Science Chair’s committee on the core curriculum, and the Department of Economics public economics search committee. He was a reviewer of GSU Perspectives course proposals and is chair of the Department of Economics search committee for Director of the Environmental Policy Center. He served on dissertation/thesis/paper committees for 19 doctoral students, and advised 6 students in the second year of the Indonesian Masters Degree Program.

Roy Bahl served as chair of the dissertation committee for Bayar Tumennasan and as a committee member for Dmitry Shiskin, Ki-Whan Choi, Eunice Heredia and Pablo Saavedra. He serves as Co-Director (with Fenwick Hass) of the Ron Brown Institute Project, and chairs the advisory committee of the Usery Center, and co-chairs the Dean's search committee for the Robinson College of Business.

Grant Black served as a reader for Albert Sumell’s dissertation, and advised several graduate students on the dissertation and job market processes. He served as an elected representative to the Staff Advisory Council and on its bylaws committee during the first half of 2003.

Jameson Boex served as an examiner for the Dissertation Proposal Defense of Bayar Tumennasan, May 2003; served as Dissertation Proposal Reader for Li Zhang; and served as Dissertation Committee member for Pablo Saavedra.

Carolyn Bourdeaux served as member of the MPA Admissions Committee; PAUS representative on the Student Funds Committee; and PAUS representative on the Information Center Advisory Committee.

Richard Charles supported activities of GSU’s Gamma Sigma chapter of the Alpha Eta Rho national aviation fraternity as faculty advisor; he participated with the Usery Institute at GSU in the forming of an alliance with the National Mediation Board-GSU and the Usery Institute will provide training, research, and consulting services for the NMB in the new program.

Ronald G. Cummings served on School’s Management Committee and served on the promotion and tenure committees for Yongsheng Xu and Felix Rioja.

Kelly Edmiston served as faculty advisor to the undergraduate economics club; served as faculty advisor to the GSU chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon National Honor Society; served as a member of the undergraduate programs committee; served as a member of the graduate committee (through Spring); served on the regional recruiting committee; served as a member of the admissions and coordination committee for the joint-Ph.D. Public Policy program with Georgia Tech; served as a member of the public economics, urban-regional economics, and econometrics educational policy committees; served as chair of the dissertation committee for Diane Weinman (economics) and as a member of the dissertation committees of Lynn Jones (accounting), Craig Gordon (public policy), Sasatra Sudsawasd (economics), F. Javier Arze (economics), Darmen Zhumadil (economics), Ki-Whan Choi (economics), Eunice Heredia (economics), Doug Campbell (economics), and Artidiatun Adji (economics).

Robert Eger III served as Liaison to the MPA Board and member of the Presidential Management Internship (PMI) Committee.

Paul G. Farnham served as departmental foundation course coordinator for MBA 8231, "Economics for Managers," in the MBA program of the Robinson College of Business. He has been directly involved with negotiations with Robinson College regarding the role of economics in restructuring the MBA program. He served as a Teaching Associate from the Economics Department for the Georgia State University Center for Teaching and Learning. He chaired the AYSPS Academic Program Committee, which reviews all issues pertaining to AYSPS academic programs. He was elected to serve as the AYSPS representative on the university committee to evaluate the Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies. He also served as a joint faculty member of the Institute of Health Administration in the Robinson College of Business, served on the pre-tenure review committee for Pat Ketsche, Institute of Health Administration, Robinson College of Business, in April 2003, served on the Advisory Committee for the University Center for Teaching and Learning, and served as a senator from the Economics Department in the Georgia State University Senate. He was a member of the Admissions and Standards, Budget, and Library Advisory committees, served on Admissions and Standards subcommittees evaluating GSU 1010 and reviewing student petitions, and was also asked to serve on the APACE Undergraduate Council.

Paul J. Ferraro served as chair of Toshihiro Uchida’s committee for a dissertation entitled “Voluntary Approaches to Environmental Protection,” who was awarded a GSU Dissertation Grant and an RFF Joseph L. Fisher fellowship. He and Uchida have written three papers currently under review. He served as co-advisor to Muhammad Yusri Zamhuri on master’s paper, “Economic Growth, Infrastructure and Institutional Efficiency: A Case of Indonesia,” in Spring 2003, and served as reader for Peter Bluestone’s dissertation proposal defense in Summer 2003. He was guest lecturer in Susan Laury’s ECON2106 and ECON8320 classes in January, and ECON8320 again in April. He co-designed and co-administered the Ph.D. Field Exam in Environmental Policy and Experimental Economics in June; tutored distance-learning student (Chris Hughes) in microeconomics in a joint environmental policy class of GSU and Albany State. He advised the Georgia State University tennis club; served on the Dept of Economics photocopy/printing committee (implemented printing charge system for graduate students and copy code system for department copiers); wrote first, second and final draft of ECON2106 Learning Outcomes; attended new graduate student reception in August and was Department Captain, 2003 State Charitable Contributions Campaign; assisted the Economics Club in recruiting new members from his classes and attended Economics Club-sponsored post-9/11 workshop; and communicated via e-mail and in-person with four potential Ph.D. candidates; wrote a letter of recommendation for graduate school applications for GSU undergraduate Elizabeth K. Adams; and coordinated Environmental Policy & Experimental Economics seminar series. His publications on the economics of conservation are included in the syllabi of more than one dozen different courses at other universities (Bonn University, Duke University, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, Monash University, North Carolina State University, Princeton University, SUNY-Albany, University of California-San Diego, University of Copenhagen, University of Maryland, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Université de Montréal, University of Western Ontario, Washington University, Western Washington University).

Shelby Frost joined the Undergraduate Programs Committee in Fall 2003, and began service as faculty advisor to all undergraduate economics majors in Summer 2003. See also Jon Mansfield.

Atef Ghobrial served as coordinator of the Transportation Studies Program; served on the post-tenure review committee at PAUS; served on the promotion and tenure committee at PAUS; was invited to review the research program in air traffic simulation at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, April 2002; attended the North Atlanta Aviation Multi-lateral Conference, University of Georgia, Athens, April 12-14, 2003; invited Mr. Robert Kennedy, Director of Marketing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Internatinal Airport, to give a presentation on airport marketing, November 12, 2003; was the GSU representative in the Southeastern Transportation Center (STC), one of 10 regional centers established by the U.S. Department of Transportation; and he accompanied four graduate students to attend the Transportation Research Board Meeting in Washington D.C., and 21 undergraduate and graduate students to Fulton County to view GIS applications in real estate, transportation, environment, and tax assessment, December 5, 2003.

Shiferaw Gurmu served as Doctoral Program Coordinator for the Department of Economics; Chair of the Department Graduate Committee; Member of the AYSPS Technology Committee; coordinated departmental computer and technology activities; and served on the dissertation or thesis committees for Jim Barnhart, Diane Weinman, Generosa Kagaruki, Mamadou Sow, Eric Sarpong (Chair), Ant Veysel, and Olga Pavlova.

Carol D. Hansen chaired 4 Ph.D. committees; chaired successful defense of one dissertation and one prospectus; served as MSHRD coordinator for the first part of 2003; updated program handbook; served as lead faculty in facilitating MPA collaboration with the University of Northumbria, Newcastle, U.K.; served on the Admissions & Standards Senate Committee and two of its subcommittees; served as MSHRD admissions committee member; Chaired these Ph.D. Committees: Howard Bailey, Dissertation chair; Lori Fancher, Program chair; Ken Little, Program chair; and Katherine O’Neil, Dissertation chair. She also advised approximately 20 MSHRD students; offered BS in HR & P advising to approximately 45 students; and participated in the hiring interviews of two new public finance faculty.

Amy Helling served as Chair of the AYSPS Faculty Affairs Committee, as an AYSPS representative on the committee overseeing the creation of a dual master’s degree with Columbia Seminary, as the AYSPS representative on the University committee evaluating GSU Vice President for Student Services Hazel Scott, as a GSU faculty liason to the NCRCC (National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities) and as the AYSPS Coordinator of the GSU 2003 Faculty-Staff Giving Campaign. She also served on a PAUS faculty search committee (public finance/economic development), a PAUS third-year review committee (William Waugh), became Practicum Coordinator for PAUS, served on the committee creating a brochure for the MS-UPS, chaired the PAUS Admissions Committee for the MS in Urban Policy Studies, served as the PAUS/AYSPS Web page coordinator, and served on the committee to evaluate the impact of the BS in Public Policy degree. She took responsibility for the planning and economic development specialization in the BS in Urban Policy Studies, the MS in Urban Policy Studies and the MPA; advised 37 undergraduates (up from 22 in 2002), and 37 graduate students (up from 31 in 2002, with 13 in the MS, 23 in the MPA, and 1 in the certificate program), maintained a Web page for the specialization, responded to a large number of inquiries from prospective students, and provideed recommendations. She co-authored two reports with master’s students, giving them opportunities for supervised work with Census data, and for professional publication. Abhijit Saptarshi is applying to Ph.D. programs, and his co-authored report is prominently featured in his application materials. These reports are available on the Atlanta Regional Commission Web site and were profiled in the Atlanta Business Chronicle when they first appeared. She served on the dissertation committee for Kathy Brice, a candidate for the Joint GSU/Georgia Tech Ph.D. in Public Policy; and chaired the dissertation committee for Nevbahar Ertas, a candidate for the Joint GSU/Georgia Tech Ph.D. in Public Policy.

Gary T. Henry served as Chair, dissertation committee for Dana Rickman, Ph.D. in Political Science; Chair, dissertation committee for Craig S. Gordon, candidate for Joint Policy Ph.D.; Co-chair with Gabriel P. Kuperminc for Andrew Mashburn, Ph.D. candidate in Psychology; Co-chair with George Rainbolt, University Senate Committee on Data Management; chair subcommittee on Program Data; Member of Provost’s Decision Support Committee; Member of Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Political Science; Member, Bachelor of Science in Public Policy Committee, PAUS.

Monica Herk served as Chair of the Search Committee for Research Associate I, Georgia Health Policy Center, and as member of the Search Committee, Health Economist, Department of Economics. See also Erdal Tekin.

Julie L. Hotchkiss wrote Letters of Recommendation for three undergraduate students and one graduate student; served as Ph.D. Placement Director during Spring 2003; served as Undergraduate advisor for all B.B.A. students, approx. 130 in total; up 21% from 2001; served as the Economics Department's library acquisition liaison during Spring 2003, periodically reviewing books the library suggests buying under the Department's library budget and generally responding to inquiries from and to the library regarding books, periodicals, and other information; determined course equivalency on matters of College of Business Transfer credit for undergraduate economics courses during Spring 2003, with an average of two requests per week; served as a member on the following Educational Policies Committees within the economics department: Econometrics & Statistics, Labor Economics & Industrial Relations in which she evaluated curriculum issues at both the undergraduate and graduate level, and wrote and graded graduate field exams for labor; served as member of the Undergraduate Program Committee during Spring 2003; and served as the Department's Web page liaison to the AYSPS during Spring 2003. She served as Director of the Georgia Administrative Data Project, where she oversaw the acquisition and maintenance of data files obtained through on-going contracts with the state departments of Human Resources and Labor, responded to requests for use of the data; secured an additional agreement for expanding the data holdings from the Department of Human Resources; and in 2003 saw three requests from researchers inside Georgia State University and ten requests by researchers outside GSU.

Bill Kahnweiler served as Coordinator of the B.S. HRP&D (Human Resource Policy and Development) degree program the entire year and as Coordinator of the M.S. HRD program the last 4 months of 2003. In these capacities, he provided management and oversight of the programs’ curricula, staffing, and daily operations as well as developing long-term strategies for improving the BSHRP&D program and leading the phase-out of the M.S. HRD program. He was a member of the PAUS Department Chair’s Advisory Committee on Department Instructional Capacity and Demand and the PAUS Department Chair’s Ad Hoc Committee for 2002 Faculty Performance Evaluations. He served as the PAUS Department coordinator for the State Charitable Contributions Campaign. He served as advisor to approximately 15 MS HRD and 70 BSHRP&D students.

Bruce Kaufman served as member of the Undergraduate Program Committee and AYSPC Academic Affairs Committee; as Chair of the Annual Review Committee for Associate Professors, Economics Department; as Chair, Labor Curriculum Committee; as reader on Roy Wada, Ant Veysel and Olga Pavlova's dissertation committees; as supervisor for Robyn Cox’s master’s thesis; as Senior Associate, Beebe Institute of Personnel and Employment Relations. He also attended GSU HR Roundtable (monthly meetings), MBA Open Houses, GSU Commencement, and worked up MBA Curriculums for 20 leading business schools.

Claudia Lacson presented “Rural Health in Georgia: A Framework for Success” to an AYSPS statistics class, Summer 2003.

Glenn M. Landers taught a class on the impact of persons without health insurance in Professor Jay Bae's "Perspectives 2002: Contemporary Issues Around You."

Susan K. Laury attended a conference on Human Subjects Protection in the Social Sciences, University of Georgia, July 28-30, 2003; made a presentation on the Environmental Policy Program for the AYSPS new faculty orientation, August 2003; represented AYSPS at the Workshop on Human Participation Protection, GSU, November 6, 2003; represented the Economics Department at the Workshop on Course Redesign, GSU, November 21, 2003; and attended AYSPS Management Committee meetings on behalf of Laura Taylor and Ron Cummings. She managed the Experimental Economics Lab; served on the Web Oversight Committee, Technology Needs Committee, and Academic Program Committee; organized the Environmental and Experimental Economics Seminar Series (Spring 2003); and was a member of GSU Responsible Conduct of Research Advisory Committee, Senate Ad-Hoc Committee on the Responsible Conduct of Research University Senate, Academic Programs and Continuing Education (APACE) Committee, Graduate Advisory Council, APACE, and the Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) Committee; and served on the dissertation committee for Ron Baker, Ph.D. student at Indiana University. She also presented guest lectures for Laura Taylor, January 2003, and for Shelby Frost, September 2003.

Lyle Letteer supported activities of GSU’s Gamma Sigma chapter of the Alpha Eta Rho national aviation fraternity as faculty advisor.

Gregory B. Lewis served on the Admissions and Coordinating Committee of the Georgia Institute of Technology-Georgia State University joint Ph.D. program in public policy. In the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies, he served on the faculty steering committee and the study committee on departmental demand and capacity. He served on the AYSPS promotion and tenure committee and co-chairs the search committee for the senior cancer scholar; served as primary advisor for most of the joint doctoral students; and chaired David Rein’s dissertation committee and served on the dissertation committees of Angela Blair Hutchison, Dennis Burns, Christopher Horne, Roy Wada, Craig Gordon, Pablo Saavedra, and Sugie Lee.

Jon Mansfield attended MBA Open House receptions in March and August of 2003, representing the Economics Department; helped coordinate Economic Department response to changes in MBA Program; proctored Masters Comprehensive exams; administered (with Shelby Frost) teaching test for new Econ Graduate Instructors; and served as co-chair of the MBA Program Committee for the Economics Department.

Jorge Martinez-Vazquez served on the Chair Tenure Committee for Felix Rioja and the Faculty Awards Committee. He served as Chair of the Economics Department Self Study Committee 2003 and the Summer Course Release Committee; and as Graduate Student Advisor for these dissertation committees: Wasseem Mina (Chair), Robert Collins (Chair), Darmen Zhumadil (Chair), Andrei Timofeev, Javier Arze (Chair), Eunice Heredia (Chair), Olga Pavlova, Sasatra Sudsawasd, Dmitry Shiskin (Chair), Pablo Saavedra (Chair), Jose Rendon-Garza (Chair), Paul Kagunda (Chair), and Li Zhang (Chair).

Karen Minyard served on the GSU Blue Ribbon Committee on Human Subjects Protections.

Robert E. Moore regularly attended and frequently organized or assisted in the organization of the following committees and groups: AYSPS Faculty meetings, AYSPS Management Committee meetings, Dean's Staff meetings, Chairs' and Deans' meetings, PR group meetings, Personnel and Facilities meetings, and Technology and Web meetings. He has coordinated the school's development of: FY04 New Funding Proposal that resulted in $107,000 in new funding for PAUS graduate student support; provided the Department of Economics with Learning Objectives for several graduate and undergraduate courses; and organized the distribution of the Delta vouchers for professional travel. He frequently represented the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on the following University committees or groups: Deans' Group, Administrative Council, APACE, FACP, Enrollment Strategic Management, Admissions and Standards, Cultural Diversity, CBSAC, Research Associate Deans Group, and Pilot Mentoring Committee.

Harvey K. Newman served as Faculty Adviser, Eta Gamma Chapter, Sigma Nu Fraternity; served on the AYSPS Academic Programs Committee; presented to the AYSPS Advisory Board on “Partnership with Columbia Theological Seminary,” October 29, 2003; for the PAUS Department, served as Chair, Post-Tenure Review Committee for Professor William W. Waugh; Chair, Screening Committee for the Amanda Hyatt Fellowship Program; Promotion and Tenure Committee; Graduate Faculty; served on the Ad Hoc Committee to develop Writing Across the Curriculum course; Committee to Revise the MS in Urban Policy Studies degree program; served as Member of the Selection Committee for Awards in the Urban Policy Studies Program; and Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, Master of Science, Urban Policy Studies Program.

Lloyd G. Nigro served as Member of the Georgia State University Senate; Member of APACE, as Chair of the Academic Program Review Committee. He taught a small section of PAUS 8721 without compensation. He advised about 15 BS HRD&P majors and about 20 MPA students. With Katherine Willoughby, he designed and implemented a Dual Section PAUS 8111 WebCT Course.

Judith M. Ottoson served on the Search Committee for a faculty position in the GSU Public Health Institute; served as a member of the Bachelor Science in Public Policy Committee; helped create the core comprehensive exam for GSU-Georgia Tech Ph.D. students in Fall and Spring 2003 and the field comprehensive exam in April 2003.

Ragan Petrie served as a Graduate Committee member; spoke to prospective graduate students about the Environmental Policy Program, March; attended Wittenberg Institute meeting, April; supervised Joe Dougherty on NSF-sponsored summer internship program during June-July; wrote the AYSPS Economics Department Graduation Guide in August; attended new graduate student reception; organized graduate student picnic with graduate student club officers in October; spoke at job market seminar for Economics graduate students in December; and assisted the Economics Club in recruiting new members from my classes.

Theodore H. Poister served as Member of the Faculty Senate, on the committees for Faculty Affairs and Planning & Development; and as Member on the Evaluation Committee for the Provost. He served as Chair on the AYSPS Promotion & Tenure Committee. He also served as Member, elected PAUS Steering Committee; Chair, MPA Admissions Committee; Chair, Post-Tenure Review Committee for Gregory Lewis; and Chair, PAUS ad hoc Committee on Demand and Capacity.

Mark Rider represented the Department of Economics at Panther Review, November 15, 2003. He supervised the Undergraduate Economics Tutoring Lab during fall semester 2003. He attended a workshop on “Writing Measurable Learning Outcomes” for the Department of Economics in September 2003. He chaired the International Studies Program self-study for the Provost’s initiative, served as a reader on proposal defense committees for Olga Pavlova, Ph.D. and Bayar Tumennasan, Ph.D., and supervised Magaretha Bolang’s internship for the Indonesia Master’s Program.

Felix Rioja served on the Graduate Committee and the Macro Policy Committee of the Department of Economics, served as faculty advisor for the Graduate Student Association of AYSPS, and served as Doctoral Coordinator for the Department of Economics.

Mark Rivera collaborated with the Health Policy Center, and provided assistance to HPC staff with evaluation design and proposal development.

Christine H. Roch served as member of the PAUS Demand and Capacity Committee; PAUS Departmental Library Liaison; BSUPS Program Revision Committee; PMI Selection Committee; the Admissions and Coordinating Committee for the Joint Ph.D. Program; the Committee to Review the Comprehensive Exams; and as Co-coordinator of the Education Policy Group Brownbags. She also served as a member of the Senate Research Committee; and the Senate Research Committee Subcommittee to Review the Herman J. Russell, Sr. International Center for Entrepreneurship (HJRICE). She also advised graduate students in the policy analysis track in the MPA program and students in the MSUPS program.

Michael Rushton served as chair on the Implementation Committee for the New Degree BSPP; member of the committee to establish a joint degree with the University of Northumbria; member of the nonprofit studies committee; and member of the MPA Admission Committee. He also served as a dissertation committee member for Christopher Horne, Ant Veysel, and Ki-Whan Choi.

Bruce A. Seaman served as adviser to two Indonesian students regarding their Masters papers; attended sessions to critique and present those papers; served as Chair of APACE subcommittee to review the Institute of International Business in the Robinson College; author of subcommittee report; served as Placement Adviser for economics department doctoral students, 2003-2004; Adviser for non-thesis masters paper for Mona Badran; Chair of the Microeconomic Theory Committee (includes additional tutoring of doctoral students preparing for micro-theory comprehensive exam, summer semesters). He also constructed and graded all masters micro-theory comprehensive exams; assisted in constructing and grading Joint Policy degree program comprehensive exams; served as dissertation committee chair for Jim Barnhart and Ant Veysel; and as member of the dissertation committee for Mikhail Melnik.

David L. Sjoquist served as a member of the School Management Committee; as Member of the Search Committee for Regional Economist; as Member of the PAUS faculty search committee; as University Representative, ICPSR; as Member of the Steering Committee with the Atlanta Outreach Consortium (a partnership involving the Presidents and Community Outreach Staff of the four Atlanta area universities). He also served as Director of the Fiscal Research Center and Director of Domestic Studies at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.

Charlotte Steeh served on C.J. Curry’s Ph.D. committee.

Paula Stephan served as Dean’s representative to coordinate construction of AYSPS Building and select furniture for building; member of the CIS APACE Program Review Committee; member of search committee, Cancer Scholar; member of the annual review committee, all associate professors; members of committee for post tenure review; member of labor/health recruiting committee of the Department of Economics; Chair of the Promotion Committee evaluating Yongsheng Xu; member of Committee to review Jim Alm, Chair of the Department of Economics; Chair of the Search Committee to hire non-tenure track faculty member in spring 2003; member of the Committee to Evaluate VP for Finance; and member of the P&T Committee, AYSPS.

Gregory Streib helped coordinate the PAUS internship program; served on the PAUS Program Review Committee; chaired the AYSPS technology committee; served on the AYSPS Information Center Advisory Group; served on the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Subcommittee; and served on the committee charged with evaluating President Carl Patton. He chaired the dissertation committee for Clifton Wilkinson, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science. He advised many MPA students.

Laura O. Taylor served as Chair of the Undergraduate Programs Committee, Department of Economics, as member of the Self-Study Group for Department of Economics, AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, Department of Management Review Committee, Search Committee for the Clinical Professor of Economics and Annual Review Committee for Evaluation of Assistant Professors. She also served as Faculty Advisor, MPA with a specialization in Natural Resource Management. She also served as Chairman on the Doctoral Thesis Committees of Peter Grigelis, A.J. Sumell and Peter Bluestone, and as member of the Doctoral Thesis Committee of Toshi Uchido.

Erdal Tekin started on a multi-year project with Sally Wallace from the Department of Economics and Monica Herk from the Health Policy Center investigating the cost of teen pregnancy in Georgia. He also served as member of the Faculty Affairs Committee, Graduate Student Committee, Summer Research Committee, Chair Evaluation Committee, Labor Faculty Search Committee, and as advisor to the Graduate Student Association. He also served as Dissertation committee member for Olga Pavlova, Roy Wada, and Albert Summell; Masters Thesis committee member for Eny Sulistyaningrum; and reader for Generosa Kagaruki.

John Clayton Thomas served on the PAUS Promotion and Tenure Committee, PAUS Executive Committee, MSUPS Admissions Committee, PAUS Departmental Program Review Committee, Bachelor of Science in Public Policy Planning Committee, Cancer Scholar Search Committee, PAUS Demand/Capacity Committee, PAUS Promotion and Tenure Committee, Faculty coordinator for a new brochure for Master of Science in Urban Policy Studies, AYSPS Promotion and Tenure Committee, Coordinating Committee of the Joint Doctoral Program in Public Policy, Public Policy Doctoral Program Review Committee, Research Atlanta Review Committee, University Senate, Budget Committee of the Senate, Bylaws and Statutes Committee of the Senate, and Enrollment Management Subcommittee of the Senate.

Geoffrey K. Turnbull participated in a joint research project in process with graduate student Gyusuck Geon, “Home Rule, Local Legislation, and the Median Voter”; and was guest lecturer, “Housing and Housing Policies in the U.S.,” for Kelly Edmiston’s ECON 8300 Urban Economics course. He also served as Chair of the Urban Economics Field Exam Committee, served on the Summer Research Grant Committee, served as Chair of the Faculty Evaluation Committee for Assistant Professors, Jay Bae Third Year Review Committee, and Regional Faculty Search Committee. He also served on the Senate Research Committee, Intellectual Property Sub-Committee, Internal Grants Sub-Committee, and as Vice-Chair of the 2004 Annual Georgia State Faculty/Staff Giving Campaign.

Neven Valev served on the Faculty Senate, representing the AYSPS on the IS&T, Statues and Bylaws, Library, and the Research Committees; served as Director of the Summer Internship Program; was a member of the Graduate Program committee; was a member of the Macro, International Economics and Economic Development field committees; prepared and graded the macroeconomics comprehensive exams; coordinated international recruitment for the Ph.D. program; prepared (along with Felix Rioja) the outline and advertising material for a Summer Training Program in Development Macroeconomics to be offered in summer 2004; worked with visitors to the International Studies Program Cintia Martinez and Benno Torgler; worked with two Indonesian Masters students on their master’s papers in spring 2003; attended the Georgia-China initiative meeting; and attended the ARCHE meeting for the Role of Higher Education in Bringing the Free Trade of the Americas to Atlanta.

David M. Van Slyke was an elected representative for the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies Executive Committee – the only non-tenured faculty member to serve on this committee; served as the contact person for all things nonprofit for the Department and School. This includes doctoral student recruitment, making community presentations on the nonprofit studies program, and discussing nonprofit opportunities in Metro Atlanta with internal and external stakeholders; directed the nonprofit studies program (NSP), its research projects, and extensive outreach activities with the Metro Atlanta nonprofit and foundation; organized and implemented the Nonprofit Studies Program’s annual nonprofit executive roundtable; coordinated the School’s human and financial resources directed toward nonprofit activities, the development and implementation of the NSP’s strategic plan, marketing materials, grant writing, and recruitment of research and affiliated program faculty; was responsible for recruiting, managing, and overseeing adjunct instructors in nonprofit management; served on the Bernard B. and Eugenia A. Ramsey Chair in Private Enterprise Search Committee; served on the Amanda G. Hyatt Fellowship Selection Committee in the Department of Public Administration and Urban Studies; served on the Best MPA Paper Award Committee; and participated in the MPA Graduate Student Orientation - August 2003; and he served as a member of Christopher Horne's and Laura Malone’s Public Policy Science Dissertation Committee, Dana Rickman’s Political Science Dissertation Committee and supervised 5 practicum and independent study student projects.

Mary Beth Walker served on the committee to write the economics internal review report and discussed the report with the external reviewers; served as coordinator of Applied Econometric Workshop; served on the committee to conduct the three-year performance review of Chairman James Alm; served on a committee to review summer course release proposals; served on the committee to conduct annual performance reviews for assistant professors; served as acting chair of the department of economics on several occasions; and assisted the Georgia Career Information Center at Georgia State University to assemble an annotated bibliography of academic research into the forecasting of labor supply across occupations.

Sally Wallace served on the search committees for the Urban/Regional and public economics searches and labor/health search, chair of the Public Finance Committee (Econ.); served on the search committee for international public position, presented lectures to the students in the AYSPS Institute Summer Program on fiscal decentralization and grants, revenue assignment and fiscal architecture. She served as a member of the University Senate, served on the following committees and subcommittees of the Senate: Executive Committee (strategic plan subcommittee), Internal Grants and Grant Review, Nominations Committee, Budget (priorities subcommittee), Administrative Support Unit Review Committee, and Cultural Diversity Committee. She also served on the following dissertation committees: Douglas Campbell, Steve Everhart, and Stephanie Zobay, served as chair of the Masters committee for Felix Callejas, and worked with 20 Indonesian students on their masters papers. See also Erdal Tekin.

William L. Waugh, Jr. served on the University Senate’s Planning and Development Committee and chairs the subcommittees on University Closings and the Administrative Services Unit Review of Facilities Management; the University Senate’s Research Committee; the Vice-President for Research’s Advisory Committee on the Responsible Conduct of Research; the Triennial Review of the VP for Development Committee; the Academic Programs and Continuing Education Committee’s subcommittee for the review of the Economics Department; the GSU Homeland Security Committee; the GSU Crisis Management Planning Committee; the AYSPS Faculty Affairs Committee; the PAUS PTI Committee and is the coordinator MPA PTIs; and the PAUS ad hoc committee on International Programs and is helping develop a joint program with the University of Northumbria at Newcastle, U.K. He also serves as the faculty advisor for Pi Alpha Alpha honor society; the coordinator of the JD/MPA program; the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Management program; and the coordinator of the Graduate Certificate in Natural Resource Management program. He made a presentation on “The Challenge of the New Terrorism,” at the Economics Club Forum on September 11, 2003.

Verna J. Willis served as chair of two doctoral committees, for Mary Hooper and Cheryl Johnson Curry. She also served on the PAUS Admissions Committee, the PAUS Faculty Affairs Committee, and the PAUS Promotion and Tenure Committee.   

Katherine G. Willoughby served as Chair of the DPAUS Program Review; Faculty Liaison to the MPA Advisory Board Liaison; Co-Coordinator, DPAUS Internships; Faculty Mentor; Chair of the DPAUS Search Committee; and Member of the DPAUS Executive Committee. She also served as Member of the Academic Programs Committee and Discussant at the Public Budgeting and Financial Management, AYSPS ISP Training Session, August 2003. See also Lloyd G. Nigro.

Yongsheng Xu served as member of the following committees: graduate committee, graduate micro committee and principles textbook committee. He served as Coordinator of the GTAs and Coordinator of the Master Programs in economics. He served as a member of the dissertation committees of Mikhail Melnik (defended in 2003), Sasatra Sudsawasd (Defended in October 2003), Toshihiro Uchida (in progress), Li Zhang (in progress), Darmen Zhumadil (in progress). He read dissertations for Roy Wada, Peter Bluestone, and Paul Kagundu.