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Outreach
to Other Universities in the State1
at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
The Andrew Young School works in collaboration with other Universities in the State of Georgia. These joint efforts span teaching, research and outreach.
Georgia State University
and the Georgia Institute of Technology offer a joint Ph.D. in Public Policy. The doctoral curriculum utilizes the strengths and faculty expertise of the two institutions.
The Department of Economics
and Morehouse College have an ongoing joint program of Economic Studies Abroad in South Africa, including South Africa's Evolving Political Economy. It is designed to give students a broad understanding of the workings of the South African economy, its infrastructure, environment and governance. The 2004 trip took place during the Maymester course.
Domestic Programs
teamed with University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute for Government to present an overview of health care issues and trends facing the state to the Georgia General Assembly at the 2004 Legislative Biennial.
The Environmental Policy Program
has established collaborative partnerships between other universities and organizations that include Oak Ridge National Laboratory, as well as the University of Georgia and Emory University. The Program’s water resources consortium, the Georgia Water Planning & Policy Center, include partnerships with Albany State University (Flint River Water Planning & Policy Center), Georgia Southern University (Coastal Rivers Water Planning & Policy Center) and Georgia State University (North Georgia Water Planning & Policy Center, housed in the Environmental Policy Program).
Georgia Health Policy Center
teamed with University of Georgia’s Carl Vinson Institute for Government to present an overview of health care issues and trends facing the state to the Georgia General Assembly at the 2004 Legislative Biennial.
International Studies Program
Dr. Luc Noiset of Kennesaw State University has been working with ISP on the USAID project titled, “Fiscal Reform in Support of Trade Liberalization,” for which he has traveled to Vietnam, helped develop a revenue forecasting model, and trained the staff on the model.
The Program for Rehabilitation Leadership
developed the collaborative research funding proposal “WebWorks: Enhancing Employment Outcomes of Individuals with Disabilities through the Utilization of Assistive Technology” with the Center on Assistive Technology and Environmental Access at Georgia Institute of Technology.
The Neighborhood Collaborative
helped implement the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance and Earned Income Tax Credit project. The Neighborhood Collaborative took this project to the Atlanta Outreach Consortium (Clark-Atlanta University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University) and student volunteers from the four universities assisted with tax return preparation for low income Atlanta families.
Atlanta Outreach Consortium
is an inter-university collective working to bridge community outreach and service-learning programs at Georgia State University, Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology and Clark Atlanta University.
met with prospective graduate students at Berry College in Rome, Ga., October 2004.
reviewed comprehensive exams in economic development for the Georgia State University and Georgia Institute of Technology Joint Public Policy Ph.D. program.
collaborated with Andy Keeler, University of Georgia, Bruce Beck, Eminent Scholar at the University of Georgia, and with Ujjayant Chakravorty, Emory University, on papers related to the Environmental Policy Program.
prepared and was awarded a grant from the Georgia Department of Transportation for the "Feasibility Study on Comprehensive Contract Maintenance in GDOT," with the Georgia Institute of Technology.
prepared a grant to the Georgia Department of Transportation focusing on managerial implications of comprehensive maintenance contracting with Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Georgia.
served as member of Liliana Letteri’s dissertation committee, including designing and grading a field examination in Biology, in the Department of Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology.
served as principal Investigator of a grant that provides financial support to researchers at Georgia State University, Georgia Southern University, Albany State University and Emory University.
supervised undergraduate Menbere Shiferaw from the University of Georgia in a research internship.
see also Ragan Petrie.
was the Georgia State University representative to the Georgia Transportation Institute (GATI) that consists of transportation research universities in Georgia.
collaborated with Clark Atlanta University on a proposal that includes the use of data warehousing in economic development for Egypt.
collaborated with faculty at Kennesaw State University on a proposal to establish a partnership with South Valley University in Egypt. The proposal was submitted to the U.S.-Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) through the Association Liaison Office (ALO) for University Cooperation in Development, Washington, D.C.
was part of a continuing, funded study called the "Study of physical activity in public parks" involving faculty from Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
lectured to a graduate public health class at Fort Valley State University, Warner Robins, Ga., March 16, 2004.
See Ragan Petrie.
directs the Georgia Institute of Technology-Georgia State University joint Ph.D. program in public policy.
was involved in development of a Dual Degree M.S./M.Div. Program with Columbia Theological Seminary and the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), and served as Chair on the Dual Degree Committee for the Columbia Theological Seminary and Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
served as Member of the Public Ministry Committee at Columbia Theological Seminary.
co-authored book chapters, journal article manuscripts, and an edited book with J. Edward Kellough from the Department of Public Administration at the University of Georgia.
Chris Parker
served as a discussant at an inaugural symposium on Public Health Law at Emory University's Law School, November 2004.
gave the presentation “An Economic Response to Drought: Experience from Georgia,” at Emory University, as part of a semester-long Environmental Studies Seminar Series that focused on the theme of water-related issues, especially in the Southeast, October 2004.
co-organized the conference Inaugural Roundtable for Atlanta-Area Experimentalists with Paul J. Ferraro and Susan K. Laury, held on October 1, 2004. The roundtable attracted researchers from Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, and Kennesaw State University.
is collaborating on International Studies Program research with Lucy Ackert, Ann Gillette, Govind Hariharan and Luc Noiset, all at Kennesaw State University.
co-taught Scope and Theory of Public Policy with Gordon Kingsley at Georgia Institute of Technology.
wrote questions and served as a reader of comprehensive exams for the joint doctoral program with Georgia Institute of Technology.
assisted with the joint graduate program in Public Policy with Georgia Institute of Technology via his Econ 8100 course, grading comprehensive exams, and periodically meeting with administrators of the program.
worked on a study of information technology applications in public administration programs with Jeffrey Brudney at the University of Georgia, and Maureen Brown at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study is being published as a book chapter in Spring 2005.
participated in the Carl Vinson Institute of Government’s National Center for the Study of the American County at the University of Georgia and is co-PI on a study of Homeland Security in county government under the sponsorship of the National Association of Counties.
coordinated the Natural Resource Management concentration and certificate in the MPA program with faculty from Albany State College and Georgia Southern University, as well as the AYSPS program in environmental policy.
1. Names of the Georgia universities with which AYSPS collaborated are shown in italics.
